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...(A) Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, sections 3115.301 to 3115.319 of the Revised Code apply to all proceedings under this chapter. (B) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under this chapter by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribuna...

...A minor parent, or a guardian or other legal representative of a minor parent, may maintain a proceeding on behalf of or for the benefit of the minor's child.

...Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, a responding tribunal of this state shall do both of the following: (A) Apply the procedural and substantive law generally applicable to similar proceedings originating in this state and may exercise all powers and provide all remedies available in those proceedings; (B) Determine the duty of support and the amount payable in accordance with the law and support guidelin...

...(A) Upon the filing of a petition authorized by this chapter, an initiating tribunal of this state shall forward the petition and its accompanying documents to whichever of the following is relevant: (1) The responding tribunal or appropriate support enforcement agency in the responding state; (2) If the identity of the responding tribunal is unknown, the state information agency of the responding state with a requ...

...(A) When a responding support enforcement agency of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from an initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to division (B) of section 3115.301 of the Revised Code, it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed. (B) A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one or mo...

...If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state, the tribunal or support enforcement agency shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to an appropriate tribunal or support enforcement agency of this state or another state and notify the petitioner where and when the pleading was sent.

...(A) A support enforcement agency of this state, upon request, shall provide services to a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter. (B) A support enforcement agency of this state that is providing services to the petitioner shall do all of the following: (1) Take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal of this state, another state, or a foreign country to obtain jurisdiction over the respondent; ...

...(A) If the department of job and family services determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the department may order the agency to perform its duties under this chapter or may provide those services directly to the individual. (B) The department of job and family services may determine that a foreign country has established a reciprocal arrangement ...

...An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this chapter.

...(A) The department of job and family services is the state information agency under this chapter. (B) The state information agency shall do all of the following: (1) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state that have jurisdiction under this chapter and any support enforcement agencies in this state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other sta...

...(A) In a proceeding under this chapter, a petitioner seeking to establish a support order, to determine parentage of a child, or to register and modify a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country must file a petition. Unless otherwise ordered under section 3115.312 of the Revised Code, the petition or accompanying documents must provide, so far as known, the name, residential address, and soci...

...If a party alleges in an affidavit or a pleading under oath that the health, safety, or liberty of a party or child would be jeopardized by disclosure of specific identifying information, that information must be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which a tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety, or liberty of the party or child, the tribunal may ord...

...(A) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs. (B) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs, and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs, or expenses against the obligee or the support enfo...

...(A) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this chapter before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney, or through services provided by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the petitioner in another proceeding. (B) A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this state to participate in a proceeding unde...

...A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or pursuant to law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this chapter.

...(A) The physical presence of a nonresident party who is an individual in a tribunal of this state is not required for the establishment, enforcement, or modification of a support order or the rendition of a judgment determining parentage of a child. (B) An affidavit, a document substantially complying with federally mandated forms, or a document incorporated by reference in any of them, which would not be excluded u...

...A tribunal of this state may communicate with a tribunal outside this state in a record or by telephone, electronic mail, or other means to obtain information concerning the laws, the legal effect of a judgment, decree, or order of that tribunal and the status of a proceeding. A tribunal of this state may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal outside this state.

...A tribunal of this state may do both of the following: (A) Request a tribunal outside this state to assist in obtaining discovery; (B) Upon request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this state.

...(A) A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or a foreign country a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates of all payments received. (B) If neither the obligor, nor the obligee who...

...(A) If a support order entitled to recognition under this chapter has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if either of the following applies: (1) The individual seeking the order resides outside this state. (2) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state. (B) The tribunal may issue a temporary ...

...A tribunal of this state authorized to determine parentage of a child may serve as a responding tribunal in a proceeding to determine parentage of a child brought under this chapter or a law or procedure substantially similar to this chapter.

...An income-withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency, to the person defined as the obligor's employer or other payor under Chapter 3121. of the Revised Code without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.

...(A) Upon receipt of an income-withholding order, the obligor's employer or other payor shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor. (B) The employer or other payor shall treat an income-withholding order issued in another state that appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this state. (C) Except as otherwise provided in division (D) of this section and section 3115.503 ...

...(A) Notwithstanding section 5122.04 of the Revised Code, no mental health professional shall diagnose or treat a minor individual who presents for the diagnosis or treatment of a gender-related condition without first obtaining the consent of one of the following: (1) At least one parent of the minor individual; (2) At least one legal custodian of the minor individual; (3) The minor individual's guardian. (B)...

...This chapter does not prohibit a physician from treating, including by performing surgery on or prescribing drugs or hormones for, a minor individual who meets any of the following: (A) Was born with a medically verifiable disorder of sex development, including an individual with external biological sex characteristics that are irresolvably ambiguous, such an as individual born with forty-six XX chromosomes with vi...

...(A) Any violation of section 3129.02, section 3129.03, or section 3129.06 of the Revised Code shall be considered unprofessional conduct and subject to discipline by the applicable professional licensing board. (B) Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to preempt any other private cause of action arising under the common law of this state. (C) The attorney general may bring an action to enforce compliance wi...

...(A) Medical assistance provided under the medicaid program shall not include coverage for gender transition services for minor individuals. (B) This section does not apply to any of the following: (1) The circumstances described in section 3129.04 of the Revised Code; (2) Mental health services provided for a gender-related condition; (3) Any services that are not gender transition services.

...Any number of persons, not less than thirteen, may associate and form a company to make insurance upon the lives of individuals, and every type of insurance appertaining thereto or connected therewith, on the mutual or stock plan, and to grant, purchase, or dispose of annuities.

...The persons forming a company under section 3907.01 of the Revised Code shall file in the office of the secretary of state articles of incorporation, signed by them, setting forth their intention to form a company, which articles shall comprise a copy of the charter they propose to adopt. The charter shall set forth the name of the company, which shall not be the corporate name or title used to designate any fire, li...

...When the articles of incorporation are filed in the office of the secretary of state under section 3907.02 of the Revised Code, and the name assumed by the company is not so nearly similar to that of any other company organized in this state as to lead to confusion or uncertainty on the part of the public, the secretary of state shall submit them to the attorney general for examination. If such articles are found by ...

...When the signers of the articles of incorporation required by section 3907.02 of the Revised Code receive from the secretary of state a certified copy of such articles and desire to organize the company, they shall publish their intention in a paper published and having general circulation in the county in which the company is to be organized. After the publication has been made for six weeks, they may open books to ...

...(A)(1) No company shall be incorporated under sections 3907.01 to 3907.21 of the Revised Code, on or after January 1, 1982, until the superintendent of insurance has certified to the secretary of state that a sum has been escrowed with a bank or trust company by the incorporators under their plan of incorporation sufficient to meet a minimum of one hundred thousand dollars paid-in capital and one hundred fifty thousa...

...When, in the opinion of its board of directors, a legal reserve life insurance company organized under any law of this state, requires a larger amount of capital than that fixed by its articles of incorporation, its board shall, after authorization by the holders of two thirds of the stock, file with the secretary of state a certificate setting forth the amount of the desired increase, and thereafter the company shal...

...Any legal reserve life insurance company organized under the laws of this state may invest its capital in the stocks, bonds, or mortgages authorized by section 3907.05 of the Revised Code, and may change and invest it or any part thereof in like manner. No company shall commence business until it has deposited with the superintendent of insurance at least one hundred thousand dollars, in such stocks, bonds, or mortga...

...When a company is fully organized and has deposited the amount of securities required by section 3907.07 of the Revised Code, it shall file with the superintendent of insurance a duly certified copy of its articles of incorporation, a copy of the approval of the attorney general, and a copy of its bylaws or constitution. If the superintendent finds that the company is duly organized and that its capital stock has bee...

...ransfer of an insurance contract from a domestic life insurance company to a life insurance company authorized to do business in this state. (2) "Individual risk" includes any policy, annuity, or contract issued pursuant to section 3907.15 of the Revised Code. (B) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, a domestic life insurance company shall not reinsure, by agreement or modification to an existing a...

...urplus, and all accumulations of every domestic life insurance company shall be invested as follows: (A) A domestic company may acquire, hold, and convey real estate: (1) Which has been acquired or is acquired for its principal offices, or which is used in connection therewith, provided that it shall not invest more than five per cent of its admitted assets on the preceding thirty-first day of December in su...

...section, on and after August 8, 1991, a domestic life insurance company may invest in any of the following securities, subject to any applicable limitations contained in rules adopted by the superintendent of insurance: (1) Securities offered and sold pursuant to 15 U.S.C.A. section 77d(5); (2) Mortgage related securities described in 15 U.S.C.A. section 78c(a)(41); (3) Securities issued or guaranteed by the feder...

...(A) A domestic life insurance company may, subject to section 3911.011 of the Revised Code, issue policies, annuities, or other contracts, whether on an individual or group basis, providing benefits or other contractual payments payable in fixed or variable dollar amounts, or both, and allocate to one or more separate accounts any amounts which are to be applied to provide such benefits and contractual payments. The ...

...Actions may be maintained by an insurance company formed under the laws of this state, against any of its members, officers, policyholders, or stockholders, for any cause relating to its business; and actions may be prosecuted and maintained by any member, stockholder, or policyholder, or the heirs or legal representative of any of these, against the company for losses which accrue on any risk, if payment is withheld...

...The directors, managers, or officers of any legal reserve life insurance company organized under the laws of this state shall not, directly or indirectly, make or pay a dividend, or pay any interest, bonus, or other allowances in lieu thereof, to its stockholders, except from surplus funds which exist after setting aside an amount equal to the reserve on all its outstanding risks and policies, calculated by the Ameri...

...The president or vice-president, and the secretary or actuary, or a majority of the directors of each insurance company organized under the laws of this state, annually on the first day of January, or within sixty days thereafter, shall prepare under oath and deposit in the office of the superintendent of insurance, a statement showing the condition of the company on the thirty-first day of the December next precedin...

...(A) All investments shall be valued in accordance with the valuation standards published by the national association of insurance commissioners. Securities investments for which the national association of insurance commissioners has not published valuation standards in its valuations of securities manual, or any successor publication, shall be valued as follows: (1) All obligations having a fixed term and rate sha...

...All companies organized under any law of this state shall continue to be corporations for the purpose for which they were chartered, but they shall be subject to all the provisions, requirements, and penalties imposed on companies organized under sections 3907.01 to 3907.21, inclusive, of the Revised Code, and shall be entitled to all the benefits and privileges of such sections and sections 3911.01 to 3911.24, inclu...

...No life insurance company, organized under the laws of this state, shall undertake any business or risk except as provided in this section, and no company, partnership, or association, organized or incorporated by act of congress, or under the laws of this or any other state of the United States, or by any foreign government, transacting the business of life insurance in this state, shall be permitted to take any kin...

...(A) No policy, annuity, or other contract providing variable or fixed and variable benefits or contractual payments shall be delivered or issued for delivery in this state except by a life insurance company, organized under the laws of this state, or a company, partnership, or association, organized or incorporated, by an act of congress, or under the laws of this or any other state of the United States, or any forei...

...(A) Each life insurance company authorized to transact business in this state shall maintain reserves, with respect to any line of sickness and accident insurance that it writes, in at least all of the following amounts: (1) An amount that equals the unearned portions of the gross premiums charged on unexpired or unterminated risks and policies; (2) An amount that is estimated to be sufficient to provide for the ul...

...Every life insurance company doing business in this state, and issuing policies on both the participating and nonparticipating plans, shall file with the superintendent of insurance separate annual statements of profits and losses with reference to each of such kinds of insurance.