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...as of Hardin county who is elected in 2026, and successors, is the successor to the judge of the probate division of that court whose term expires February 8, 2027, shall be designated as a judge of the court of common pleas, general division, shall have all the powers relating to the general division of the court of common pleas of Hardin county, shall be the clerk of the probate court, and shall exercise jurisdicti...

...vised Code indorsed on it, shall be deposited with the county treasurer and kept in the treasurer's office. As the state of business in the probate judge's office renders it necessary, the board, except as otherwise provided in section 3.061 of the Revised Code, may require the probate judge to give additional bond.

...rts, the supreme court may alter and amend the rules submitted by the judge or judges of a probate court and make other rules.

...e may administer oaths, take acknowledgment of instruments in writing required to be acknowledged, and take depositions. Depositions taken according to sections 2319.05 to 2319.31, inclusive, of the Revised Code, to be used on the trial of civil cases, may be taken and used on the trial of any question before the probate court.

...efit of anyone aggrieved and shall be filed in the probate court. The commissioner shall take the testimony and report the testimony to the court with the commissioner's conclusions on the law and the facts involved. The report may be excepted to by the parties and confirmed, modified, or set aside by the court.

... commissioner's duties, may summon and enforce the attendance of witnesses, may compel the production of books and papers, and may grant adjournments the same as the court, and, when the court directs, the commissioner shall require the witnesses severally to subscribe the witnesses' testimony. All process and orders issued by the commissioner shall be directed to the sheriff, shall be served, and return of t...

...ommon pleas in sections 2301.18 to 2301.26 of the Revised Code.

...sed Code that is to be paid into the county treasury, the officer and the officer's sureties shall be liable upon the officer's official bond for damages sustained by any person by reason of the officer's misconduct.

...e of the parties interested, in the amount required to be collected by the process, with ten per cent on the amount to be collected. The judge may enforce the collection of the amercement by execution or other process, by imprisonment as for contempt of court, or both. The delinquent officer and the officer's sureties shall also be liable on the officer's official bond for the amount of the amercement at the s...

... which the court has ordered restricted under the Rules of Superintendence for the Courts of Ohio. (2)(a) The probate judge shall provide for one or more probate court investigators to perform the duties that are established for a probate court investigator by the Revised Code or the probate judge. The probate judge may provide for an investigator in any of the following manners, as the court determines is appropri...

...ntary, the name of the decedent, the amount of bond and names of sureties in the bond, and the date of filing and a brief note of each order or proceeding relating to the estate with reference to the journal or other record in which the order or proceeding is found; (B) A guardian's docket, showing the name of each ward and, if the ward is an infant, the infant's age and the name of the infant's parents, the amount ...

...ilable to the public, machines or equipment necessary for an examination of the records. The machines or equipment shall present the records in a format that is readable without difficulty. (C) If a probate court keeps records by record-keeping methods other than bound volumes of paper pages, it shall keep and maintain indices to the records that permit the records to be retrieved readily.

...When a probate judge, whether elected or appointed, enters upon the discharge of the judge's official duties, the judge shall make, in the books and other record-keeping materials of the judge's office, the proper records, entries, and indexes omitted by the judge's predecessors in office. When made, the entries shall have the same validity and effect as though they had been made at the proper time and by the ...

...er papers in each estate, trust, assignment, guardianship, or other proceeding, ex parte or adversary, which are filed in the probate court shall be kept together, and upon the final termination or settlement of the case, cause, or proceeding shall be preserved for future reference and examination. The papers shall be properly jacketed, and otherwise tied, fastened, or held together, numbered, lettered, or otherwise ...

...itures or distribution stated in an account, which has been filed in the probate court, may be ordered destroyed or otherwise disposed of five years after the account with which it was filed has been approved or settled and recorded and after there has been a compliance with section 149.38 of the Revised Code. When the vouchers, proof, or other evidence filed in support of expenditures or distribution stated in an a...

...d by the judge. Not later than the fifteenth day of January, in each year, the judge shall file with the county auditor an account, certified by the judge, of all fees received by the judge during the preceding year. No judge shall fail to perform the duties imposed in this section. At the instance of any person, the prosecuting attorney shall institute and prosecute an action against the defaulting judge.

...sident executor or administrator to bar creditors' claims, proceedings by ___________________________________________________ $20.00 (51) Power of attorney or revocation of power, bonding company ___________________________________________________ $10.00 (52)

...the county treasury by the end of the calendar year in which it is received.

...d to computerize the court, make available computerized legal research services, or to do both. Upon making a determination that additional funds are required for either or both of those purposes, the probate judge shall charge a fee not to exceed three dollars or authorize and direct a deputy clerk of the probate court to charge a fee not to exceed three dollars, in addition to the fees specified in divisions ...

...robate judge establishes any procedures under this division, the probate judge may charge, in addition to the fees and costs authorized under section 2101.16 of the Revised Code, a reasonable fee, not to exceed fifteen dollars, that is to be collected on the filing of each action or proceeding and that is to be used to implement the procedures. (B) The probate court shall pay to the county treasurer of the county in...

...A probate judge shall not charge, or collect from, the estate of a decedent who died while in active service as a member of the armed forces of the United States or the national guard any of the following fees if the death occurred while the decedent was serving in a combat zone or as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving in a combat zone: (1) Any fee for or associated with the filing...

...r part of the claim. The clerk shall then effect the cancellation.

...to an institution for persons with intellectual disabilities _____________________________________________ 10.00; (E) For habeas corpus proceedings when a person is confined under color of proceedings in a criminal case and is discharged ____________________________________________ 10....

... and make certificates in pension and bounty cases without compensation.

...e county treasury. The moneys shall be credited to a fund to be known as the probate court conduct of business fund. The moneys so credited shall be used solely for the conduct of the business of the probate court. (C) Upon receipt of an order of the probate judge for the payment of moneys from the fund for the conduct of the business of the court, the county auditor shall draw a warrant on the county treasure...