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...bat zone" means an area that the president of the United States by executive order designates for purposes of 26 U.S.C. 112 as an area in which armed forces of the United States or the national guard are engaging or have engaged in combat. (B) A probate judge shall not charge, or collect from, the estate of a decedent who died while in active service as a member of the armed forces of the United States or the...

...r part of the claim. The clerk shall then effect the cancellation.

...on shall be paid to the probate court from the county treasury upon the warrant of the county auditor which shall issue upon the certificate of the probate judge and shall be in full for all services rendered in the respective proceedings as follows: (A) For each hearing to determine if a person is an individualwith a mental illnesssubject to hospitalization when the person is committed to a state hospital or t...

...For services for which compensation is not provided but subject to section 2101.27 of the Revised Code insofar as the probate judge solemnizes marriages, the probate judge shall be allowed the same fees as are allowed the clerk of the court of common pleas for similar services. The probate judge shall administer oaths and make certificates in pension and bounty cases without compensation.

...ded by law. (B) All moneys obtained from the sale of merchandise to be used in connection with any license, order, or document issued by a probate court shall be paid by the probate judge or the deputy clerk of the court into the county treasury. The moneys shall be credited to a fund to be known as the probate court conduct of business fund. The moneys so credited shall be used solely for the conduct of the ...

...When the aggregate amount of fees and allowances collected by the probate judge in any calendar year exceeds by more than ten per cent the amount necessary to pay the salaries of the judge and the employees of the probate court, including court constables, for the same calendar year, the judge may, by an order entered on the judge's journal, provide for a discount of all the fees and allowances the judge is req...

...iary, the probate court may require payment of the costs incident to such appointment.

...dge shall issue any process, notices, commissions, rules, and orders that are necessary to carry into effect the powers granted to the judge.

...o compel performance of any duty incumbent upon any fiduciary appointed by or accounting to the judge. The probate judge may punish any contempt of the judge's authority as that contempt might be punished in the court of common pleas. If a person neglects or refuses to perform an order or judgment of a probate court, other than for the payment of money, the person is guilty of contempt of court, and the judge...

...ably absent, any judge of the court of common pleas may take proof of wills and approve bonds to be given, but the record of these acts shall be preserved in the usual records of the probate court. (b) To grant and revoke letters testamentary and of administration; (c) To direct and control the conduct and settle the accounts of executors and administrators and order the distribution of estates; (d) To appoint ...

...may certify such cause to the court of common pleas of the county, together with all the papers filed therein, whereupon the clerk of the court of common pleas shall file said papers and enter said cause on the docket. Thereupon the court of common pleas shall have jurisdiction to hear, determine, and make record of said cause, as if commenced in such court. The court of common pleas, upon said case being docketed in...

...person of advanced age or of an incompetent or minor under guardianship, or receives information of an alleged theft from the estate of a decedent, the judge may refer the information to the appropriate law enforcement agency of the political subdivision in which the abuse, exploitation, or theft allegedly occurred, which agency shall conduct an investigation to determine whether there is probable cause to believe th...

...section. (B)(1) If a probate judge intends to charge a fee for solemnizing any marriage in accordance with division (A) of this section, prior to doing so, the probate judge, by rule, shall establish a reasonable fee for providing the service. (2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not do either of the following: (a) Require a probate judge who, by rule, has established a reasonable fee for solemnizing mar...

...rt, the probate judge shall notify the commissioners of jurors, who shall cause to be drawn from the annual jury list the names of sixteen jurors. Additional names may be drawn if required. The clerk of the court of common pleas or one of the clerk's deputies shall make a list of those names in the order drawn and certify the list to the probate court, and the court shall issue a summons commanding the persons ...

... questions of fact to a special master commissioner as provided in sections 2101.06 and 2101.07 of the Revised Code.

...to, taxed against, and apportioned between the parties, whether on the same or adverse sides, including, but not limited to, costs covered by division (B) of section 2101.16 of the Revised Code.

... to vacate or modify its orders or judgments.

...es of the court of common pleas are absent from the county or are under a disability, the probate judge of the county may enter judgments by confession in cases pending in the court of common pleas of the judge's county.

... enforced as judgments in the court of common pleas. Such execution shall be directed to the sheriff, or, in the sheriff's absence or disability, to the coroner.

...may call upon a judge of the court of common pleas having jurisdiction in that county to act in the probate judge's place or in conjunction with the probate judge, or the probate judge may call upon the chief justice of the supreme court, who shall designate a judge of the court of common pleas or a probate judge to act in the place of the absent or incapacitated probate judge or in conjunction with the absent...

...ted, shall be settled by the court of common pleas of the county. In those matters and cases in which the judge is interested, the judge shall certify the original papers to the court of common pleas. In other matters and proceedings in a probate court in which the judge of the probate court is interested or in which the judge is required to be a witness to a will, the judge shall, upon the motion of a party i...

...tion of the proceeding to the court of common pleas as provided by section 2101.38 of the Revised Code, any party to the proceeding or the party's counsel may file an affidavit of disqualification with the clerk of the supreme court. The affidavit of disqualification shall be filed and decided in accordance with divisions (B) to (E) of section 2701.03 of the Revised Code, and, upon the filing of the affidavit, the pr...

...A probate judge shall not in any way deal in property or securities involved in probate court cases. This section applies to all appointees of the probate court.

... out an account required for the settlement of an estate committed to the care or management of another, or appear as attorney before a court or judicial tribunal. Whoever violates this section shall forfeit the office of probate judge. The deputy clerk of a probate court may engage in the practice of law if the deputy's practice is not related in any way to probate law or practice. The deputy may engage in th...

...of appeals in the manner and within the time provided for the prosecution of such appeals from the court of common pleas to the court of appeals. For the purpose of prosecuting appeals on questions of law from the probate court, the probate court shall exercise judicial functions inferior only to the court of appeals and the supreme court.