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...order granting a summary release from administration in accordance with this section. (2) If either of the following applies, the decedent's surviving spouse may apply to the probate court for an order granting a summary release from administration in accordance with this section: (a) The decedent's funeral and burial expenses have been prepaid, and the value of the assets of the decedent's estate does not exceed t...

...g of any application for authority to administer the decedent's estate. Nothing in this section requires that an application to administer the decedent's estate be filed if no estate is needed to be administered, unless otherwise required by law. The probate court shall send a copy of the application to those persons listed on the decedent's estate form described in this section unless otherwise directed by the cour...

...g letters testamentary or letters of administration to be issued upon the estate of the deceased employee, and without requiring an Ohio estate tax release if the wages or personal earnings do not exceed five thousand dollars: (1) The surviving spouse; (2) Any one or more of the children eighteen years of age or older; (3) The father or mother of the deceased employee. (B) The payment of wages or personal ea...

...(A) The administrator of the medicaid estate recovery program established pursuant to section 5162.21 of the Revised Code may present an affidavit to a financial institution requesting that the financial institution release account proceeds to recover the cost of services correctly provided to a medicaid recipient who is subject to the medicaid estate recovery program. The affidavit shall include all of the fol...

...of a holder of the power, letters of administration with the will annexed shall be granted to a suitable person or persons, named as devisees or legatees in the will, who would have been entitled to administer the estate if the decedent had died intestate, unless the will indicates an intention that the person or persons shall not be granted letters of administration. Otherwise, the court shall grant letters o...

...(A) Administration of the estate of an intestate shall be granted to persons mentioned in this division, in the following order: (1) To the surviving spouse of the deceased, if resident of the state; (2) To one of the next of kin of the deceased, resident of the state. (B) If the persons entitled to administer the estate under division (A) of this section fail to take or renounce administration voluntaril...

...Before being appointed executor or administrator, every person shall make and file an application that shall contain the names of the surviving spouse and all the next of kin of the deceased known to the applicant, their addresses of usual residence if known, a statement in general terms of what the estate consists and its probable value, and a statement of any indebtedness the deceased had against the applica...

...cation for appointment as executor or administrator of the estate of a deceased alien with surviving heirs residing in a foreign country, or as soon thereafter during the administration of the estate as the probate court ascertains that the deceased was an alien, the court shall cause notice of the proceedings to be forwarded by registered mail to the nearest consular representative of the country of which the deceas...

...Revised Code, the court shall commit administration of the estate, with the will annexed, to some suitable and competent person, pursuant to section 2113.05 of the Revised Code.

...me of admitting the will to probate, administration may be granted with the will annexed during the nominee's minority, unless there is another executor who will accept the trust. If there is that other executor, the estate shall be administered by that executor until the minor arrives at full age when the former minor may be admitted as executor upon giving bond as provided in section 2109.04 of the Revised C...

...ecutor has no authority, as such, to administer the estate of the first testator. On the death of the sole or surviving executor of a will, administration of that part of the estate of the first testator not already administered may be granted, with the will annexed, to the person that the probate court appoints.

... granting letters testamentary or of administration, the probate court may appoint a special administrator to collect and preserve the effects of the deceased and grant the special administrator any other authority that the court considers appropriate. The special administrator shall collect the assets and debts of the deceased and preserve them for the executor or administrator who thereafter is appointed. F...

...anting 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 administration ...

....06 of the Revised Code to a special administration appointed under section 2113.15 of the Revised Code.

...ate 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 spouse, children,...

...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.

... 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 the final determination of...

...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 real and p...

...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.

...e the examination of the executor or administrator under oath in open court on any matter relating to the administration of the estate.

...n 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 to the surviving spouse and distributees. In eith...

...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...

...r the appointment of the executor or administrator, no one in authority has taken over the management and rental of any real property of which the decedent died seized, the executor or administrator, or an heir or devisee may, unless the will otherwise provides, make application to the probate court for an order authorizing the executor or administrator to assume those duties. The application shall contain the...