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...competent when certified by the probate court to receive such an appointment. The probate court shall certify that nonprofit corporation and any individual acting as a guardian on behalf of the nonprofit corporation upon meeting the requirements for serving as a guardian as prescribed by the supreme court in the Rules of Superintendence for the Courts of Ohio and the rules of court adopted by the probate court of the...

...inted for a person having a spouse, the court may appoint such spouse as the guardian, if it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the court that such spouse is competent to discharge the duties of such appointment.

...uardian of the person only, unless the court that appoints the guardian is of the opinion that the interests of that minor will be promoted by that selection. (B) A surviving parent by a will in writing may appoint a guardian for any of the surviving parent's children, whether born at the time of making the will or afterward, to continue during the minority of the child or for a less time. When the father or...

...e nomination is for consideration by a court if proceedings for the appointment of a guardian of the person, the estate, or both, for the person making the nomination or if proceedings for the appointment of a guardian as the guardian of the person, the estate, or both of one or more of the nominator's minor or incompetent adult children are commenced at a later time. The person may authorize, in a writing of ...

...the orders and judgments of the probate court touching the guardianship. (B) Except as provided in section 2111.131 of the Revised Code, no part of the ward's estate shall be used for the support, maintenance, or education of such ward unless ordered and approved by the court. (C) A guardian of the person may authorize or approve the provision to the ward of medical, health, or other professional care, counsel, tre...

...(A) The probate court may enter an order that authorizes a person under a duty to pay or deliver money or personal property to a minor who does not have a guardian of the person and estate or a guardian of the estate, to perform that duty in amounts not exceeding five thousand dollars annually, by paying or delivering the money or property to any of the following: (1) The guardian of the person only of the minor; (...

...To obey all orders and judgments of the courts touching the guardianship; (5) To bring suit for the ward when a suit is in the best interests of the ward; (6) To settle and adjust, when necessary or desirable, the assets that the guardian may receive in kind from an executor or administrator to the greatest advantage of the ward. Before a settlement and adjustment is valid and binding, it shall be approved by the p...

...The court, by order or rule, may require that any inventory filed by a guardian pursuant to section 2111.14 of the Revised Code be supported by evidence that the inventory is a true and accurate inventory of the estate of the ward of the guardian. The evidence may include, but is not limited to, prior income tax returns, bank statements, and social security records of the ward or other documents that are releva...

...When a person is appointed to have the custody of the person and to take charge of the estate of a ward, such person shall have all the duties required of a guardian of the estate and of a guardian of the person.

...(A) If a guardian of the estate, a guardian of the person and estate, a guardian of the person, or a conservator enters into a contract in the representative capacity of the guardian or conservator, if the contract is within the authority of the guardian or conservator, and if the guardian or conservator discloses in the contract that it is being entered into in the representative capacity of the guardian or conserva...

...Unless previously authorized by the court, no voucher that is signed or purports to be signed by the ward shall be received from or allowed as a credit in the settlement of a guardian's account.

...A guardian may sue in the guardian's own name, describing the guardian as suing on behalf of the ward. When the guardianship ceases, actions or proceedings then pending shall not abate, if the right survives. The guardian's successor as guardian, the executor or administrator of the ward, or the ward, if the guardianship has terminated other than by the ward's death, shall be made party to the suit or other pro...

...e, approval, and consent of the probate court. If it is proposed that a claim be settled for the net amount of twenty-five thousand dollars or less after payment of fees and expenses as allowed by the court, the court, upon application by any suitable person whom the court may authorize to receive and receipt for the settlement, may authorize the settlement without the appointment of a guardian and authorize the deli...

...may file an application in the probate court in the county where the minor then resides, praying for a finding by the court that the minor is in fact emancipated, and authorizing, approving, and consenting to the settlement of the claim by the minor without the appointment of a guardian. Upon hearing on the application, after five days' written notice of the time and place of the hearing has been given to each...

..., inheritance or otherwise, the probate court may order that all or a portion of the amount received by the minor be deposited into a trust for the benefit of that beneficiary until the beneficiary reaches twenty-five years of age, and order the distribution of the amount in accordance with the provisions of the trust. Prior to the appointment as a trustee of a trust created pursuant to this section, the person to be...

...A guardian, whether appointed by a court in this state or elsewhere, may complete the contracts of the ward for the purchase or sale of real property or any authorized contract relating to real property entered into by a guardian who has died or been removed. The appointed guardian shall proceed in the manner provided by sections 2113.48 to 2113.50 of the Revised Code.

...The guardian of the person and estate, or of the estate only, may sell all or any part of the personal property of the ward if the sale is for the interest of the ward.

...rd and upon the terms that the probate court of the county in which the guardian was appointed approves, or if the guardian was appointed to a foreign state, upon the terms that the probate court of the county in which the real property is situated approves. After the approval, the guardian may execute and deliver all the necessary deeds, mortgages, releases, and agreements for the sale, compromise, assignment...

...When a ward has title to real property by tax title only, the guardian, by deed of release and quitclaim, may convey the ward's interest or title to the person entitled to redeem the real property, upon receiving from that person the amount paid for the tax title with the forfeiture and interest allowed by sections 319.52 and 323.121 of the Revised Code. If the guardian tenders that deed to the person entitled ...

...n any suit or proceeding in the probate court, such guardian shall in all such suits or proceedings act as guardian ad litem for such ward, except as to suits or proceedings in which the guardian has an adverse interest. Whenever a minor or other person under legal disability, for whom no guardian of the estate or of the person and estate has been appointed, is interested in any suit or proceeding in such court, the ...

...If the probate court finds that the estate of a ward is insolvent or will probably be insolvent, such estate shall be settled by the guardian in like manner as for the settlement of the insolvent estate of a deceased person under section 2117.15 of the Revised Code.

...nly, without application to the probate court, may lease the possession or use of any real property of the ward for a term not exceeding three years, provided the term does not extend beyond the minority, if the ward is a minor. If the lease extends beyond the death of the ward or beyond the removal of the disability of a ward other than a minor, the lease shall terminate on that death or removal of disability,...

...erms and for the time that the probate court approves any lands belonging to the ward containing coal, gypsum, petroleum oil, natural gas, gravel, stone, or any other mineral substance for the purpose of drilling, mining, or excavating for and removing any of those substances, or the guardian may modify or change in any respect any lease previously made. The lease, or modification or change in a lease previou...

...ny other facts necessary to apprise the court fully of the necessity or benefit to the ward or the estate of the proposed lease, or any other facts that may be required by the court; (K) A prayer for the proper authority.

...lowance in lieu of dower is waived, the court shall allow, out of the proceeds of the lease, a sum in money that is the just and reasonable value of the expectancy of dower.