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...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; (2) The minor's natural guardians, if any, as determined pursuant to section 2111.08 of the Revised Code; (3) The m...

...(A) In addition to a guardian's other duties, every guardian appointed to take care of the estate of a ward shall have the following duties: (1) To make and file within three months after the guardian's appointment a full inventory of the real and personal property of the ward, its value, and the value of the yearly rent of the real property, provided that, if the guardian fails to file the inventory for thirty days...

... 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 relevant to determining the accuracy ...

...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...

...wed 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...

...ny other relief based on any claim, the guardian of the estate of the ward may adjust and settle the claim with the advice, 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 ...

...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 of the living parents of the minor, whose name and address is known, provided the parent is free from disability other than minority, or, if there is no living parent, after that notice to the next of kin of the minor known to reside in the...

...ointed shall be approved by a parent or guardian of the minor beneficiary of the trust, unless otherwise ordered by the probate court.

...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.

...Whenever a ward, for whom a guardian of the estate or of the person and estate has been appointed, is interested in 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 ...

...nt, 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.

...A guardian of the person and estate or of the estate only, 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 s...

...A guardian may lease the possession and use of the real property of the guardian's ward or any part of it for a term of years, renewable or otherwise, by perpetual lease, with or without the privilege of purchase, or may lease upon the terms 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 su...

...A guardian's application for authority to lease real property of a ward shall be by petition setting forth the following: (A) The legal capacity of the petitioner; (B) The name of the ward, the character of the ward's disability, and if it is incompetence, whether the disability is curable or not, temporary, or confirmed, and its duration; (C) The number, names, ages, and residence of the family of the ward,...

...6 and 2111.27 of the Revised Code, the guardian may act for two or more wards and two or more guardians of different wards may unite if all the wards are jointly or in common interested in the real property. If the same person is guardian of two or more wards owning lands in common, the wards may be joined as defendants in the same petition under section 2111.27 of the Revised Code. The ward's spouse shall be...

...When a guardian files an application for authority to lease the real property of a ward, the same rules shall apply as to the parties and, upon the filing of the petition described in section 2111.27 of the Revised Code, similar proceedings shall be had as in an action to sell real property belonging to the ward under sections 2127.01 to 2127.43 of the Revised Code, including services of summons, notice, apprai...

...When a guardian applies for authority to lease the real property of a ward, the duties of the appraisers shall be the same as in proceedings to sell real property belonging to the ward under sections 2127.22 and 2127.23 of the Revised Code, except that they shall appraise not only the value of the real property but also the value of the annual rental upon the terms, covenants, conditions, and stipulations of th...

... tenant as part of the rent, or by the guardian, either out of the rent or other means of the ward as the court directs. If the lease is for the mining or removal of mineral or other substances and the guardian is unable to lease the lands upon the terms ordered, the guardian may report the fact to the court and the court may change the terms of leasing, but not below the customary royalty in the vicinity of t...

... the first royalty under such lease the guardian shall report to the probate court the amount thereof and the court shall then fix a bond which will cover such royalty. At any time the court deems the bond insufficient to secure the royalty, it may increase such bond or require a new one.

...(A) A guardian may use the moneys and personal property of the guardian's ward to improve the ward's real property. The guardian shall file in the probate court in which the guardian was appointed a petition containing the following: (1) A description of the premises to be improved; (2) The amount of rent the premises yield at the time the petition is filed; (3) In what manner the improvement is proposed to b...

...pleadings and proof as on petition by a guardian to sell the real property of a ward under sections 2127.01 to 2127.43 of the Revised Code. The probate court shall appoint three disinterested freeholders of the county as commissioners to examine the premises to be improved, to examine the surroundings, and to report to the court their opinion whether the improvement proposed will be advantageous to the estate o...

...On the final hearing of a guardian's proceeding to improve the real property of the guardian's ward, if the prayer of the petition is granted, the probate court shall fix the amount of money and personal property that may be used in making the improvement. The court may authorize the guardian to unite with the owners of adjacent property, upon equitable terms and conditions that the court approves, for the impr...