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...Upon granting of letters testamentary or of administration, the power of a special administrator appointed under section 2113.15 of the Revised Code shall terminate and the special administrator shall transfer to the executor or administrator all the assets of the deceased in the possession or under the control of the special administrator. The special administrator shall file an account of the special administ...

...A creditor's claim may be presented in accordance with section 2117.06 of the Revised Code to a special administration appointed under section 2113.15 of the Revised Code.

...(A) The probate court may remove any executor or administrator if there are unsettled claims existing between the executor or administrator and the estate that the court thinks may be the subject of controversy or litigation between the executor or administrator and the estate or persons interested in the estate. (B) The probate court may remove any executor or administrator upon motion of the surviving spous...

...When a sole executor or administrator dies without having fully administered the estate, the probate court shall grant letters of administration, with the will annexed or otherwise as the case requires, to some suitable person pursuant to section 2113.05 or 2113.06 of the Revised Code. That person shall administer the assets of the deceased not previously administered.

...If a will of a deceased is proved and allowed after letters of administration have been granted as of an intestate estate, the first administration shall be revoked, unless before the revocation a complaint contesting the probate of the will is filed in the probate court. If a complaint of that nature is filed, the probate court may allow the administration to be continued by the original administrators until t...

...(A) When a will is contested, the executor, the administrator de bonis non, with the will annexed, or the testamentary trustee may, during the contest, do the following: (1) Control all the real property and all the personal property of the testator not administered before the contest; (2) Collect the debts and convert all assets into money, except those that are specially bequeathed; (3) Pay all taxes on the...

...An executor or administrator appointed in the place of an executor or administrator who has resigned or been removed, whose letters have been revoked, or whose authority has been extinguished is entitled to the possession of all the unadministered personal effects and assets of the estate and all other funds collected and unaccounted for by the former executor or administrator, and may maintain a suit against t...

...When letters of administration are revoked, when an executor or administrator, or administrator with the will annexed, is removed, resigns, or dies, when a will is declared invalid, or when an election to take under section 2105.06 of the Revised Code is made by or for a surviving spouse, all previous sales, leases, encumbrances, whether of real or personal property, made lawfully and in good faith by the executor or...

...The executor or administrator of an estate shall collect the assets and complete the administration of that estate within six months after the date of appointment unless an extension of the time to file a final and distributive account is authorized under division (B) of section 2109.301 of the Revised Code. For good cause shown, the court may grant an extension of the time to file the inventory and accounts.

...The court, upon application of any interested party, may authorize the examination of the executor or administrator under oath in open court on any matter relating to the administration of the estate.

...(A) Except as otherwise directed by the decedent in the decedent's will, an executor or administrator, without personal liability for losses incurred, may continue the decedent's business during four months next following the date of the appointment of that executor or administrator, unless the probate court directs otherwise, and for any further time that the court may authorize upon a hearing and after notice...

...Every executor or administrator is chargeable with all assets of the deceased that come into the possession or under the control of the executor or administrator and are to be administered, although not included in the inventory required by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code. The executor or administrator is also chargeable with all the proceeds of personal property and real property sold for the payment of de...

...ecutor or administrator to assume those duties. The application shall contain the following: (1) A brief statement of the facts upon which the application is based and any other pertinent information that the court may require; (2) A description or identification of the real property and the interest owned by the decedent at the time of death; (3) The names and addresses, if known to the applicant, of the pe...

...No profits shall be made by executors or administrators by the increase of any part of an estate, nor shall they sustain any loss by the decrease or destruction of such estate without their fault.

...An executor or administrator is not accountable for debts inventoried as due to the decedent, if it appears to the probate court that, without the executor's or administrator's fault, they remain uncollected.

...If an executor or administrator neglects to sell personal property that is required to be sold, and retains, consumes, or disposes of it for the executor's or administrator's own benefit, the executor or administrator shall be charged with the personal property at double the value affixed to the property by the appraisers.

...pect, has not faithfully discharged the duties as executor or administrator, the court may deny the executor or administrator any compensation whatsoever or may allow the executor or administrator the reduced compensation that the court thinks proper.

...e of the executor's or administrator's duties. Upon the application of an executor or administrator for further allowances for extraordinary services rendered, the court shall review both ordinary and extraordinary services claimed to have been rendered. If the fees payable pursuant to section 2113.35 of the Revised Code exceed the reasonable value of the ordinary services rendered, the court shall adjust any...

...The probate court, in settlement of an account, may allow as a credit to the following persons a just amount expended by the person for a tombstone or monument for the deceased and a just amount paid by the person to a cemetery association or corporation as a perpetual fund for caring for and preserving the lot on which the deceased is buried: (A) An executor; (B) An administrator; (C) A person with the right of ...

...If a qualified executor, administrator, or testamentary trustee is authorized by will or devise to sell any class of personal property or real property, no order shall be required from the probate court for the executor, administrator, or testamentary trustee to proceed with the sale. A power to sell authorizes a sale for any purpose considered by the executor, administrator, or testamentary trustee to be for t...

...(A) At any time after the appointment of an executor or administrator, the probate court, if satisfied that it would be for the best interests of the estate, may authorize the executor or administrator to sell at public or private sale, at a fixed price or for the best price obtainable, and for cash or on the terms that the court may determine, any part or all of the personal property belonging to the estate, e...

...(A) Public sales of personal property as provided in section 2113.40 of the Revised Code shall be at public auction and, unless otherwise directed by the probate court, after notice of the sale has been given by any of the following methods: (1) By advertisement appearing at least three times in a newspaper of general circulation in the county during a period of fifteen days next preceding the sale; (2) By ad...

...Within thirty days after any public or private sale of the personal property of an estate, the executor or administrator shall make a report of the sale to the probate court. The report shall include proof of proper notice of the sale if it was at a public auction, and, if a clerk was employed for the sale, the report shall be accompanied by a sale bill signed by the clerk.

...In all sales of the personal property of an estate the probate court may authorize the executor or administrator to sell on credit, the unpaid purchase price to be secured by notes or bonds with two or more sureties and approved by the executor or administrator. An executor or administrator shall not be responsible for loss due to the insolvency of the purchaser of any of such property if it appears that such executo...

...An executor or administrator, without court order, may sell and transfer, without recourse, any promissory notes secured by mortgage and the mortgage securing such notes at not less than the face value thereof with accrued interest.