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...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.

...The court, upon application of any interested party, may authorize the examination of the executor or administrator under oath in open court on any matter relating to the administration of the estate.

...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...

...No profits shall be made by executors or administrators by the increase of any part of an estate, nor shall they sustain any loss by the decrease or destruction of such estate without their fault.

...If an executor or administrator neglects to sell personal property that is required to be sold, and retains, consumes, or disposes of it for the executor's or administrator's own benefit, the executor or administrator shall be charged with the personal property at double the value affixed to the property by the appraisers.

...An executor or administrator, without court order, may sell and transfer, without recourse, any promissory notes secured by mortgage and the mortgage securing such notes at not less than the face value thereof with accrued interest.

...When a mortgagee of real property, or an assignee of the mortgagee, dies without foreclosing the mortgage, the mortgaged premises and the debts secured by the mortgage shall be considered personal assets in the possession or under the control of the executor or administrator of the estate of the mortgagee or assignee, and shall be administered and accounted for as such. If the mortgagee or assignee did not ob...

...In case of the redemption of a mortgage belonging to the estate of a decedent, the money paid on the redemption shall be received by the executor or administrator, and the executor or administrator shall release and discharge the mortgage. Until that redemption, if the executor, administrator, or decedent has taken possession of the mortgaged premises, the executor or administrator shall be seized of the mortga...

...A mortgage belonging to an estate may be foreclosed by the executor or administrator.

...The property of an estate that is specifically bequeathed may be delivered over to the legatee entitled to the property. The legatee shall secure its redelivery on demand to the executor or administrator. Otherwise, the property shall remain in the possession or under the control of the executor or administrator to be distributed or sold, as required by law and the condition of the estate.

...(A) A devisee taking real property under a devise in a will, unless the will otherwise provides, or an heir taking real property under the statutes of descent and distribution shall take the real property subject to all taxes, penalties, interest, and assessments that are a lien against that real property. (B) If real property devised in a will is subject to a mortgage lien that exists on the date of the test...

...General legacies shall bear no interest unless specifically provided in the will.

...An executor or administrator is not liable for any distribution made in compliance with sections 2113.53, 2113.54, and 2113.55 of the Revised Code, except that an order of distribution made pursuant to any of such sections may be vacated as provided in section 2109.35 of the Revised Code relating to accounts.

...When a beneficiary of an estate is indebted to such estate, the amount of the indebtedness if due, or the present worth of the indebtedness if not due, may be set off by the executor or administrator against any testate or intestate share of the estate to which such beneficiary is entitled.

...Upon receipt of the certificate provided for in section 2113.61 of the Revised Code, the county recorder shall record it in the official records and index the certificate in the name of the decedent as grantor and the person to whom the real property passes as grantee in the indexes provided for in section 317.18 of the Revised Code.

...The statute of limitations shall not be set up as a defense or bar to an action against an executor or administrator who fails or neglects to comply with the requirements of sections 2113.64 and 2113.65 of the Revised Code.

...An executor or administrator appointed in any other state or country, or the executor's or administrator's legal representatives, may be prosecuted in any appropriate court in this state in the capacity of executor or administrator.

...Any court of common pleas may compel a foreign administrator or executor residing in this state, or having assets or property in this state, to account at the suit of an heir, distributee, or legatee, who is resident in this state, and make distribution of the amount found in the possession or under the control of the foreign administrator or executor to the respective heirs, distributees, or legatees according...

...An executor or administrator appointed in any other state or country may commence and prosecute an action or proceeding in any court in this state, in the capacity as executor or administrator, in the same manner and under the same restrictions as a nonresident is permitted to sue.

...As used in sections 2113.85 to 2113.90 of the Revised Code: (A) "Estate" means the gross estate of a decedent who is domiciled in this state, as determined for federal estate tax purposes under Subtitle B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954, 26 U.S.C. 2001, as amended, for Ohio estate tax purposes under Chapter 5731. of the Revised Code, and for estate tax purposes of any other jurisdiction that imposes a ta...

...(A) Unless a will or another governing instrument otherwise provides, and except as otherwise provided in this section, a tax shall be apportioned equitably in accordance with the provisions of this section among all persons interested in an estate in proportion to the value of the interest of each person as determined for estate tax purposes. (B) Except as otherwise provided in this division, any tax that is apport...

...Except as provided in section 5815.27 of the Revised Code, the generation-skipping transfer tax imposed by Chapter 13 of subtitle B of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 100 Stat. 2718, 26 U.S.C. 2601-2624, as amended, and the generation-skipping tax levied by division (B) of section 5731.181 of the Revised Code shall be apportioned in the manner described in section 2113.86 of the Revised Code.

...The fiduciary is not required to institute any suit or proceeding to recover from any person interested in the estate the amount of the tax apportioned to the person until three months after the final determination of the tax. A fiduciary who institutes a suit or proceedings within the three-month period shall not be subject to any liability or surcharge because any portion of the tax apportioned to any person intere...

...(A) A fiduciary who is acting in another state or a person required to pay the tax who is domiciled in another state may institute an action in the courts of this state and may recover a proportionate amount of the federal estate tax determined under Subtitle B of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1954," 68 Stat. 373, 26 U.S.C.A. 2001, as amended, of an estate tax payable to another state, or of a death duty by a deceden...