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...A mortgage belonging to an estate may be foreclosed by the executor or administrator.

...If a foreign administrator or executor has wasted, misapplied, or converted assets of an estate, or has insufficient property to discharge the foreign administrator's or executor's liability on account of the trust, or the foreign administrator's or executor's sureties are irresponsible, the distributees, heirs, or legatees, in any court of common pleas or probate court may compel the foreign administrator or e...

...The several provisional remedies and proceedings authorized by sections 2113.70 to 2113.73 of the Revised Code against a foreign executor or administrator also apply to the person and property of a foreign administrator or executor. The probate court or the court of common pleas may make any order or decree touching a foreign executor's or administrator's property and effects, or the assets of the estate, nece...

...If it appears that a legatee or a distributee, or a beneficiary of a trust not residing within the United States or its territories will not have the benefit, use, or control of the money or other property due the legatee or distributee from the estate or due the beneficiary from the trust, because of circumstances prevailing at the place of residence of the legatee or distributee, or the beneficiary of the tru...

...The inventory required by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code shall contain a particular statement of all securities for the payment of money that belong to the deceased and are known to the executor or administrator. The inventory shall specify the name of the debtor in each security, the date, the sum originally payable, the endorsements on the securities with their dates, the serial numbers or other identify...

...When the inventory required by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code has been approved by the probate court, the appraisement of the real property as set forth in the inventory shall be conclusive for all purposes except estate tax, unless a reappraisal is ordered by the court.

...Upon the hearing as to the allowance of an executor's or administrator's claim against the estate the executor or administrator represents, an appeal may be taken from a final order or judgment of the probate court upon a matter of law by any person affected by the order or judgment.

...When a claim is presented against the estate of a deceased person, the executor or administrator may require satisfactory written proof in support of it and also the affidavit of the claimant that the claim is justly due, that no payments have been made on the claim, and that there are no counterclaims against it to the claimant's knowledge. The affidavit shall set forth any security held for the payment of the...

...If an executor or administrator doubts the justice of any claim presented against the estate the executor or administrator represents, the executor or administrator may enter into an agreement in writing with the claimant to refer the matter in controversy to three disinterested persons, who shall be approved by the probate judge. Upon filing the agreement of reference in the probate court of the county in wh...

...The failure of the holder of a valid lien upon any of the assets of an estate to present the lienholder's claim upon the indebtedness secured by the lien, as provided in this chapter, shall not affect the lien if the same is evidenced by a document admitted to public record, or is evidenced by actual possession of the real or personal property that is subject to the lien.

...An executor or administrator, or a distributee who receives the presentation of a claim as provided in division (A)(2) of section 2117.06 of the Revised Code, shall reject a creditor's claim against the estate by giving the claimant written notice of the disallowance of the claim. The notice shall be given to the claimant pursuant to Civil Rule 73. Notice by mail shall be effective on delivery of the mail at the a...

...When a claim against an estate has been rejected in whole or in part but not referred to referees, or when a claim has been allowed in whole or in part and thereafter rejected, the claimant must commence an action on the claim, or that part of the claim that was rejected, within two months after the rejection if the debt or that part of the debt that was rejected is then due, or within two months after that debt ...

...If a devisee, legatee, heir, creditor, or other interested party files in the probate court a written requisition on the executor or administrator to reject a claim presented for allowance against the estate the executor or administrator represents, whether the claim has been allowed or not, but which claim has not been paid in full, and enters into a sufficient bond running to the executor or administrator, th...

...Taxes, penalties, and interest placed on a duplicate or added by the county auditor or the tax commissioner because of a failure to make a return or because of a false or incomplete return for taxation shall be a debt of a decedent and have the same priority and be paid as other taxes. Those taxes, penalties, and interest shall be collectible out of the property of the estate either before or after distribution...

...For the years during which property is required to be listed in the name of an executor or administrator, no percentage or part of any increased tax on such property of an estate, covered by an inventory required by section 2115.02 of the Revised Code, shall be allowed or paid to a person under a contract for securing for taxation, or putting on the tax list or duplicate, property omitted, or not listed or returned f...

...(A) Every executor or administrator shall proceed with diligence to pay the debts of the decedent and shall apply the assets in the following order: (1) Costs and expenses of administration; (2) An amount, not exceeding four thousand dollars, for funeral expenses that are included in the bill of a funeral director, funeral expenses other than those in the bill of a funeral director that are approved by the pr...

...No execution against the assets of an estate shall issue upon a judgment against an executor or administrator unless upon the order of the probate court that appointed the executor or administrator. If an account has been rendered by the executor or administrator and settled by the court, the execution shall issue only for the sum that appeared, on settlement of the account, to be a just proportion of the asset...

...All executions against executors and administrators for debts due from the deceased shall run against the assets of the estate of the deceased in the possession or under the control of the executors and administrators.

...If, in the cases specified in section 2117.41 of the Revised Code, more than one person is liable for the debt, the creditor shall proceed by one action to recover the debt against all so liable, or as many of them who are within the reach of process. By the verdict of a jury if either party requires it, the court shall determine what sum is due to the plaintiff. The jury also, according to the equities of the ...

...When a person owning property in this state has disappeared and has not been heard from, after diligent inquiry and for at least three months, under circumstances that afford reasonable ground to believe that the person is dead, cannot return, or refuses to return to the person's home, and the person's estate requires attention, supervision, and care, or is needed for the maintenance of the person's dependents,...

...If at any time the absentee returns and makes application to the probate court for the termination of the trust established under section 2119.01 of the Revised Code, the court shall, on notice to the trustee and other interested parties, order the trustee to file a final account and on settlement of the account shall terminate the trust and order all remaining property returned. If an executor, administrator, ...

...(A) Except as provided otherwise in this chapter, all of the proceedings for the probate of the decedent's will, if any, and all the proceedings, domiciliary or ancillary, for the administration of the decedent's estate that are set forth in the Revised Code for use upon the death of a decedent, shall upon the signing of the decree of presumed death be instituted and carried on in the same manner as if the pres...

...At the time assigned for the hearing of a proceeding set forth under section 2123.01 of the Revised Code, or at any time to which the hearing may be adjourned, the probate court may hear proof taken by commission, or by witnesses produced in open court, of the facts set forth in the complaint, and shall, if satisfied from the evidence, find and adjudge who are or were the heirs or next of kin of the decedent, a...

...Any fiduciary may make a final distribution of an estate or take any other appropriate action respecting a trust, upon the determination set forth in section 2123.05 of the Revised Code, and shall thereupon, together with the surety, be discharged from liability arising from such determined interest, and the title to any property thereupon purchased from such fiduciary shall be free from such determined interest.

...As soon as an executor or administrator ascertains that the personal property in the possession or under the control of the executor or administrator is insufficient to pay all the debts of the decedent, together with the allowance for support to the surviving spouse, minor children, or surviving spouse and minor children of the decedent as provided in section 2106.13 of the Revised Code, and the costs of admin...