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...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 ...

...r 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, the amount, terms, and surety of which are to be...

...The devisee, legatee, heir, creditor, or other interested party filing the requisition referred to in section 2117.13 of the Revised Code, shall be made a party defendant with the executor or administrator to any action on a claim rejected on requisition and have a right to plead and make any defense thereto. Any judgment in favor of the claimant shall be against the executor or administrator only.

...inistrator may report that fact to the court, and apply for any order that the executor or administrator considers necessary because of the insolvency. In case of insolvency, a creditor who has been paid according to law shall not be required to make any refund.

...ayment of it in good faith shall not be subject to question upon exceptions to the executor's or administrator's accounts. The confirmation of a claim by the court shall not preclude the executor or administrator from thereafter rejecting the claim on discovery of error in the executor's or administrator's previous action or on requisition as provided in sections 2117.13 and 2117.14 of the Revised Code.

...eased's name. In all additions to the personal tax lists and duplicate under this section, each succeeding tax year shall be considered as beginning at the time of the completion of the annual settlement of the duplicate for the previous year with the county treasurer.

...sed 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 for taxation.

..., or hospital long-term care unit. (8) Personal property taxes, claims made under the medicaid estate recovery program instituted pursuant to section 5162.21 of the Revised Code, and obligations for which the decedent was personally liable to the state or any of its subdivisions; (9) Debts for manual labor performed for the decedent within twelve months preceding the decedent's death, not exceeding three hundr...

...dent and is not in satisfaction of a personal obligation of the individual during the individual's lifetime. If a decedent during the decedent's lifetime has purchased an irrevocable preneed funeral contract pursuant to section 4717.34 of the Revised Code, then those provisions of section 2117.25 of the Revised Code that relate to the bill of a funeral director, including divisions (A) and (B) of ...

...A vendor's lien not disclosed of record shall not, after the death of the vendee, have priority as against general creditors of the deceased.

...Debts not due may, and on demand of the creditor shall, if assets are available therefor, be paid by the executor or administrator according to the class to which they belong. If the debt does not bear interest before maturity, it shall be discounted at the legal rate of interest; otherwise the stipulated rate of interest shall be paid to time of payment. If a creditor whose claim is not due refuses to accept payment...

...perty may be permitted to take the same subject to such liens, if all the lienholders consent and waive recourse to all the other assets of the estate in the event such property so taken is insufficient to pay the debts secured by such liens.

...the further time allowed by the probate court for the collection of the assets of the estate, except in the following cases: (1) On claims rejected in whole or in part; (2) For the enforcement of a lien against or involving title to specific property; (3) For the recovery of a claim that would not be affected by the insolvency of the estate; (4) On account of fraud, conversion, or concealment of assets; (5...

...When two or more persons are indebted in a joint contract, or upon a judgment founded on the joint contract, and either of them dies, the decedent's estate shall be liable for the debt as if the contract had been joint and several, or as if the judgment had been against the decedent alone. This section shall not affect the rights of a surety, when certified as such, in a judgment rendered jointly against the su...

...No law relating to limitation of actions against a new administrator shall revive a claim which is barred, during the continuance in office of the original executor or administrator, or of a former administrator de bonis non.

...r 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 assets applicable to the judgment. The order of the court allowing the execution shall fix the amount for which ...

...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.

...eased person unless suit is brought to subject the real property to the payment of those debts prior to the settlement of the executor's or administrator's final account or what purports to be the executor's or administrator's final account; provided that if the final account is not filed and settled within four years after the granting of letters testamentary or of administration, but excluding for these purp...

...If a claim is contingent at the time of a decedent's death and a cause of action subsequently accrues on the claim, it shall be presented to the executor or administrator, in the same manner as other claims, before the expiration of six months after the date of death of the decedent, or before the expiration of two months after the cause of action accrues, whichever is later, except as provided in section 2117....

...If an executor or administrator has made a partial distribution of the assets of the estate at the time a claim is presented under section 2117.37 of the Revised Code, and if the claim is allowed or after rejection is found to be due from the estate, but the assets remaining in the possession of the executor or administrator are insufficient to pay the claim in full, the assets remaining shall first be exhausted befo...

...If at the time a cause of action accrues on a contingent claim against a decedent's estate, or if within two months thereafter an account of final distribution has been filed, no claim need be presented to the executor or administrator and the claimant may proceed by civil action against the distributees of the decedent's estate as provided in sections 2117.41 and 2117.42 of the Revised Code.

...aid balance thereof in an action in the court of common pleas as provided in sections 2117.41 and 2117.42 of the Revised Code.

...itled to bring the suit is under legal disability, the person may bring the action within one year after the person's disability is removed. If any of those heirs, next of kin, surviving spouse as next of kin, devisees, or legatees dies without having paid the person's just proportion of the debt, the executors or administrators of that deceased person's estate shall be liable for that proportion to the exten...

... 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 case, shall decide how much each of the defendants is liable to pay toward the satisfaction of the debt and the court shall render judgment accordingly. No suit shall be dismissed or debarred for not making all the persons defendants who might have been included as def...