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...f the person's dependents, the probate court, on application of the spouse or of one of the next of kin, may appoint a trustee to take possession and charge of the property of the person, other than the property with respect to which the person has made provision by written instrument designating an agent or attorney in fact. The application shall be filed in the county in which the person last resided or if th...

... order notice to be given to any other persons in the manner that it considers best.

...ay proceed without order of the probate court to do the following: (1) Take possession of the property of the absentee wherever situated within the state; (2) Collect all debts due to the absentee; (3) Retain and invest the estate in accordance with Chapters 2113. to 2125. of the Revised Code. (B) The trustee may pay that part or all of the income or principal of the estate as the court, from time to time, m...

...pon notice to the spouse and any other persons and in the manner that the court directs, may order all or any part of the personal property to be sold.

...s and makes application to the probate court for the termination of the trust established under section 2119.01 of the Revised Code, the court shall, on notice to the trustee and other interested parties, order the trustee to file a final account and on settlement of the account shall terminate the trust and order all remaining property returned. If an executor, administrator, or guardian is appointed for the ...

...ection, a presumption of the death of a person arises upon either of the following: (1) When the person has disappeared and been continuously absent from the person's place of last domicile for a five-year period without being heard from during the period; (2) When the person has disappeared and been continuously absent from the person's place of last domicile without being heard from and was at the beginning...

...the presumption of death in the probate court of the county of the presumed decedent's last residence. (B) When a presumption of death arises pursuant to section 2121.01 of the Revised Code with respect to a person who at the time of the person's disappearance was domiciled at a place other than within the state, and the presumed decedent owns real property within this state, the complaint may be filed in the ...

...presumption of death is established. No person shall be disqualified to testify by reason of relationship as husband or wife to the presumed decedent, or by reason an interest in the presumed decedent's property, or because of a right or interest under the terms of a contract, beneficiary designation, trust, or otherwise, arising by reason of the death of the presumed decedent.

...121.01 of the Revised Code, the probate court shall so decree. (B) The death of such presumed decedent shall for all purposes under the law of this state be regarded as having occurred as of the date of such decree. (C) If the presumed decedent is married on the date of the decree, the presumed decedent's marriage is dissolved by the decree. No subsequent vacation of the decree, as provided in section 2121.08 of th...

...er nonprobate property interest of any person or entity who was a party to the proceedings. The court may condition the granting of that order by requiring any person or entity who would benefit by the order to furnish bond for a three-year period after the decree in the form and amount, with or without sureties, as the court shall order. If any supplementary order is directed to the holder of assets of the pr...

...n an amount to be fixed by the probate court and with sureties to be approved by the court. In the discretion of the court the bond may be taken without sureties. The bond shall be conditioned to account for and pay over to the presumed decedent, in case within the three-year period after the decree is entered by the court it is established that the presumed decedent is still alive, the value of the real prope...

...h property may in the discretion of the court and as a condition of distribution be required to give bond in the form and amount, with or without sureties, as the court orders, with the condition that if within a three-year period after the decree is entered by the court it is established that the presumed decedent is alive, the distributee will upon subsequent order of the court refund or return the property to the ...

...wise of the presumed decedent shall be subject to this section, and upon vacating of the decree as provided in this section any property, money, right, or interest, or its fair value if the same shall have been sold or otherwise disposed of, may be recovered from the person who had received that property, money, right, or interest. (C) Except as provided in division (D) of this section, in any action against a...

...ction 2121.08 of the Revised Code, the person erroneously presumed to be dead, on motion filed of record stating the facts, may be substituted as plaintiff or petitioner in all actions or proceedings brought by the executor or administrator, whether prosecuted to judgment or decree or otherwise. That person, in all actions or proceedings previously brought against the executor or administrator, may be substitu...

...d in the probate court to determine the persons entitled to such property.

... administrator may file in the probate court of the county where the estate is being administered a complaint signed by the executor or administrator or the executor's or administrator's attorney, which complaint shall be verified. The surviving spouse and the legatees and devisees, or the heirs and distributees of the decedent, including those whose names are unknown, shall be made parties defendant. The compl...

...nd rule days as in civil actions in the court of common pleas shall apply. All parties defendant who are known to be residents of the state and whose places of residence are known shall be served with summons, as provided for the service of summons in civil actions in that court.

... publication as in civil actions in the court of common pleas.

... hearing may be adjourned, the probate court may hear proof taken by commission, or by witnesses produced in open court, of the facts set forth in the complaint, and shall, if satisfied from the evidence, find and adjudge who are or were the heirs or next of kin of the decedent, and entitled by the laws of this state to inherit the estate of the deceased, or the devisees or legatees named or unnamed in the will...

...123.05 of the Revised Code, the probate court may make a determination of who are or were the heirs at law of the deceased person.

...Any fiduciary may make a final distribution of an estate or take any other appropriate action respecting a trust, upon the determination set forth in section 2123.05 of the Revised Code, and shall thereupon, together with the surety, be discharged from liability arising from such determined interest, and the title to any property thereupon purchased from such fiduciary shall be free from such determined interest.

...e and now appearing on the files of any court within this state, and no prior law of this state shall prevent the maintenance of such cause of action.

...e an action during that period due to a disability described in section 2305.16 of the Revised Code, a civil action for wrongful death involving a product liability claim may be commenced within two years after the disability is removed. (f)(i) Division (F)(2)(a) of this section does not bar a civil action for wrongful death based on a product liability claim against a manufacturer or supplier of a product if the p...

...ciaries or any one or more of them. The court that appointed the personal representative, except when all of the beneficiaries are on an equal degree of consanguinity to the deceased person, shall adjust the share of each beneficiary in a manner that is equitable, having due regard for the injury and loss to each beneficiary resulting from the death and for the age and condition of the beneficiaries. If all of the be...

...s and the cause of action survives, the personal representative of the plaintiff may commence a new civil action for wrongful death within one year after the date of the reversal of the judgment or the plaintiff's failure otherwise than upon the merits or within the period specified by any of those divisions, whichever occurs later.