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...son desiring to conform the person's legal name on an official identity document may file an application in the probate court of the county in which the person resides.

...ed Code, an application to conform a legal name shall set forth all of the following: (A) That the applicant has been a bona fide resident of the county where the applicant is filing for at least sixty days prior to the filing of the application. (B) An explanation of the misspelling, inconsistency, or other error in the name. (C) A description of the correction sought to conform the name on all official identi...

...(A) An application shall be supported by an affidavit verifying all of the following: (1) The applicant's residency in the county for a period of at least sixty days; (2) That the application is not made for the purpose of evading any creditors or other obligations; (3) That the applicant is not a debtor in any currently pending bankruptcy proceeding; (4) That all of the documentary evidence submitted under ...

...A probate court by local rule or order may require an applicant to submit a copy of any or all of the applicant's official identity documents or other documentary evidence relating to the applicant's identity that the court deems relevant to the application.

..., if the court requires a hearing, it shall set the manner, scope, and content of the hearing notice the applicant must serve.

...Except as provided under section 2717.16 of the Revised Code, upon proof that the facts set forth in the application show reasonable and proper cause for changing the name of the applicant and, if applicable, upon proof that proper notice was served, the court may order the change of name.

...y, or other error of the applicant's legal name on an official identity document exists, and that reasonable and proper cause exists for issuing an order that resolves the discrepancy and conforms the applicant's legal name, the court may issue an order to conform the name of the person.

...If an applicant submits to the court, along with the application, satisfactory proof that open records of the name change or conformity, or publication of the hearing notice under section 2717.08 of the Revised Code, would jeopardize the applicant's personal safety, both of the following apply: (A) The court shall waive the hearing notice requirement. (B) If the court orders the change of name under section 2717....

...4 of the Revised Code may be made on behalf of a minor by either of the minor's parents, a legal guardian, a legal custodian, or a guardian ad litem.

...(A) When an application is made on behalf of a minor, in addition to the proof required under sections 2717.03 or 2717.05 of the Revised Code and, if applicable, proof of the notice given under section 2717.08 of the Revised Code, the consent of both living, legal parents of the minor shall be filed, or notice of the hearing shall be given to the parent or parents not consenting by certified mail, return receipt requ...

...(A) The court shall not order a change of name under section 2717.09 of the Revised Code if the person applying for a change of name has a duty to comply with section 2950.04 or 2950.041 of the Revised Code because the applicant was convicted of, pleaded guilty to, or was adjudicated a delinquent child for having committed a sexually oriented offense or a child-victim oriented offense. (B) The court shall not order...

...An action to conform the legal name of a person under section 2717.04 of the Revised Code shall not be permitted in lieu of either of the following: (A) Correction of a birth record under section 3705.15 of the Revised Code; (B) Changing a legal name to a name that is not used in any existing official identity documents.

...on, the probate court may order a criminal records check. (B) Any fee required for the criminal records check shall be paid by the applicant.

...When there is an omission, defect, or error in an instrument in writing or in a proceeding by reason of the inadvertence of an officer, or of a party, person, or body corporate, so that it is not in strict conformity with the laws of this state, the courts of this state may give full effect to such instrument or proceeding, according to the true, manifest intention of the parties thereto.

...When an error, omission, or defect as described in section 2719.01 of the Revised Code occurs in an instrument or proceeding which is required to be made a matter of record, a party, person, body corporate, or persons intending and undertaking to become a body corporate, having or claiming an interest in the correction of such error, omission, or defect, may file a petition in the court of common pleas, setting forth...

...n section 2719.02 of the Revised Code shall be filed in the county wherein the principal office of such corporation is located, and in all other cases, in the county wherein the record is kept.

...and the time and place of hearing it, shall be published for six consecutive weeks in some newspaper of general circulation in the county where the application is made. In all other cases, service shall be made in the manner prescribed by law for making service in civil actions.

...e was made, the court of common pleas shall make an order to correct it, which order shall be filed in the office wherein such record is required to be kept. From and after such filing, such record, and the order correcting it, shall be received as evidence in all cases, in all courts, as if no such error, omission, or defect ever existed.

...The court of common pleas may correct, amend, and relieve against errors, defects, or mistakes occurring in the deed or other conveyance of a husband and wife, executed and intended to convey or encumber the lands or estate of the wife, or her right of dower in the lands of her husband, in the manner and to the extent that such courts are authorized to correct errors, mistakes, or defects in the deeds or conveyances ...

...corporated association, society, municipal corporation, or other corporation.

...ay declare rights, status, and other legal relations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed. No action or proceeding is open to objection on the ground that a declaratory judgment or decree is prayed for under this chapter. The declaration may be either affirmative or negative in form and effect. The declaration has the effect of a final judgment or decree. (B) A plaintiff who is not an insured under a...

...erson whose rights, status, or other legal relations are affected by a constitutional provision, statute, rule as defined in section 119.01 of the Revised Code, municipal ordinance, township resolution, contract, or franchise may have determined any question of construction or validity arising under the instrument, constitutional provision, statute, rule, ordinance, resolution, contract, or franchise and obtain a dec...

...Subject to division (B) of section 2721.02 of the Revised Code, a contract may be construed by a declaratory judgment or decree either before or after there has been a breach of the contract.

...nt person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to provide. Any person interested as...

...it or restrict the exercise of the general powers conferred by division (A) of section 2721.02 of the Revised Code in any action or proceeding in which declaratory relief is sought under this chapter and in which a judgment or decree will terminate the controversy or remove an uncertainty.