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...A court may issue an order that determines, with respect to a child described in section 2151.4116 of the Revised Code who is not receiving care in the home of a kinship caregiver, that the continuation of the child's current placement is in the child's best interest and that intensive efforts to identify and engage an appropriate and willing kinship caregiver for the child are unnecessary if the court makes the find...

...A court may issue an order under section 2151.4118 of the Revised Code if it finds all of the following: (A) The child has been living in a stable home environment with the child's current caregivers for the past twelve consecutive months. (B) The current caregivers have expressed interest in providing permanency for the child. (C) The removal of the child from the current caregivers would be detrimental to the...

...If a court makes the findings under section 2151.4119 of the Revised Code, the court and public children services agency or private child placing agency may consider the child's current caregiver as having a kin relationship with the child and at an equal standing to other kin in regards to permanency.

...If a relative who received the required notice pursuant to section 2151.33 of the Revised Code fails within six months from the date of receipt to demonstrate interest in and willingness to provide a permanent home for a child, a court may excuse the public children services agency or private child placing agency from considering such relative for placement if the court has issued an order under section 2151.4119 of ...

...Nothing in sections 2151.4115 to 2151.4121 of the Revised Code shall be construed to prevent a public children services agency or private child placing agency from continuing to search or consider kinship caregivers.

...(A) At any hearing in which a court is asked to modify or terminate an order of disposition issued under section 2151.353, 2151.415, or 2151.417 of the Revised Code, the court, in determining whether to return the child to the child's parents, shall consider whether it is in the best interest of the child. (B) An order of disposition issued under division (A)(3) of section 2151.353, division (A)(3) of section 2151.4...

...(A)(1)(a) No person described in division (A)(1)(b) of this section who is acting in an official or professional capacity and knows, or has reasonable cause to suspect based on facts that would cause a reasonable person in a similar position to suspect, that a child under eighteen years of age, or a person under twenty-one years of age with a developmental disability or physical impairment, has suffered or faces a th...

...(A) As used in this section, "Homeless shelter" means a facility that provides accommodations to homeless individuals. (B) On receipt of a notice pursuant to division (A), (B), or (E) of section 2151.421 of the Revised Code, the public children services agency shall determine whether the child subject to the report is living in a shelter for victims of domestic violence or a homeless shelter and whether the child wa...

...A public children services agency shall disclose confidential information discovered during an investigation conducted pursuant to section 2151.421 or 2151.422 of the Revised Code to any federal, state, or local government entity, including any appropriate military authority or any prevention services provider to the family, that needs the information to carry out its responsibilities to protect children from abuse o...

...(A) If a child has been placed in a certified foster home or is in the custody of, or has been placed with, a kinship caregiver as defined in section 5180.50 of the Revised Code, a court, prior to conducting any hearing pursuant to division (F)(2) or (3) of section 2151.412 or section 2151.28, 2151.33, 2151.35, 2151.414, 2151.415, 2151.416, or 2151.417 of the Revised Code with respect to the child, shall notify the f...

...As used in sections 2151.426 to 2151.428 of the Revised Code: (A) "Children's advocacy center" means a center operated by participating entities within a county or two or more contiguous counties to perform functions and activities and provide services, in accordance with the interagency agreement entered into under section 2151.428 of the Revised Code, regarding reports received under section 2151.421 of the Revise...

...(A)(1) A children's advocacy center may be established to serve a single county by execution of a memorandum of understanding regarding the participation in the operation of the center by any of the following entities in the county to be served by the center: (a) The public children services agency; (b) Representatives of any county or municipal law enforcement agencies serving the county that investigate any of th...

...(A) The entities that participate in a memorandum of understanding executed under section 2151.426 of the Revised Code establishing a children's advocacy center shall assemble the center's multidisciplinary team. (B)(1) The multidisciplinary team for a single county center shall consist of the following members who serve the county: (a) Any county or municipal law enforcement officer; (b) The executive director of...

...(A) If a children's advocacy center is established under section 2151.426 of the Revised Code, in addition to the memorandum of understanding executed under that section, each public children services agency that participates in the execution of the memorandum of understanding, the children's advocacy center, and the children's advocacy center's multidisciplinary team assembled under section 2151.427 of the Revised C...

...(A) The differential response approach, as defined in section 2151.011 of the Revised Code, pursued by a public children services agency shall include two response pathways, the traditional response pathway and the alternative response pathway. The director of children and youth shall adopt rules pursuant to Chapter 119. of the Revised Code setting forth the procedures and criteria for public children services agenci...

...(A) A public children services agency shall determine as soon as practicable if a parent, guardian, or custodian of a child who is subject to an investigation under section 2151.421 or 2151.422 of the Revised Code is in the armed forces. (B) If the agency determines that the parent, guardian, or custodian is in the armed forces, the agency shall notify the appropriate authority of that armed force in which the pare...

...(A) Each public children services agency shall prepare a memorandum of understanding that is signed by all of the following: (1) If there is only one juvenile judge in the county, the juvenile judge of the county or the juvenile judge's representative upon the judge's review and approval; (2) If there is more than one juvenile judge in the county, a juvenile judge or the juvenile judges' representative selected ...

...(A) A memorandum of understanding shall do both of the following: (1) Set forth the normal operating procedure to be employed by all concerned officials in the execution of their respective responsibilities under this section and division (C) of section 2919.21, division (B)(1) of section 2919.22, division (B) of section 2919.23, and section 2919.24 of the Revised Code; (2) Have as two of its primary goals both o...

...Every official who signed a memorandum of understanding under section 2151.4220 of the Revised Code shall biennially do the following regarding the memorandum: (A) Review and evaluate the memorandum for necessary updates to terms and procedures; (B) Update the memorandum's terms and procedures, if the concerned officials determine an update is necessary; (C) Sign the reviewed memorandum; (D) Submit the memora...

...Failure to follow the procedure set forth in the memorandum of understanding by the concerned officials is not grounds for, and shall not result in, the dismissal of any charges or complaint arising from any reported case of abuse or neglect or the suppression of any evidence obtained as a result of any reported child abuse or child neglect and does not give, and shall not be construed as giving, any rights or any gr...

...(A) On receipt of a county's memorandum of understanding submitted to the board of county commissioners in accordance with section 2151.4222 of the Revised Code, the board shall review and evaluate if the memorandum meets the requirements under sections 2151.4220 to 2151.4222 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) If the board determines the memorandum meets those requirements, it shall adopt a resolution to approve the memor...

...The biennial review of a county memorandum of understanding pursuant to division 2151.4222 of the Revised Code and the biennial adoption of a resolution by the board of county commissioners to approve the memorandum under section 2151.4225 of the Revised Code shall be completed by the thirty-first day of December following the first full calendar year after the effective date of this section, and by the thirty-first ...

...(A) The department of children and youth shall create a model memorandum of understanding to provide guidance to public children services agencies and other concerned officials in creating a memorandum of understanding in compliance with sections 2151.4220 to 2151.4226 of the Revised Code. (B) The model memorandum of understanding shall be updated as the department determines is necessary.

...The department of children and youth shall biennially audit the memorandum of understanding prepared by each public children services agency to ensure compliance in accordance with sections 2151.4220 to 2151.4226 of the Revised Code.

...The department of children and youth shall determine that a public children services agency is compliant regarding the memorandum of understanding if the department finds all of the following: (A) The memorandum meets the requirements under sections 2151.4220 to 2151.4226 of the Revised Code. (B) The memorandum has been either reviewed and signed or reviewed, updated, and signed, as applicable, pursuant to divi...

...The real property included in the court's order of sale, as provided in section 2127.29 of the Revised Code, shall be sold either in whole or in parcels at public auction at the door of the courthouse in the county in which the order of sale was granted, or at another place, as the court directs, and the order shall fix the place, day, and hour of sale. If it appears to be more for the interest of the ward or t...

...If the sale authorized by a court as provided in section 2127.32 of the Revised Code is private, the real property shall not be sold for less than the appraised value. If the sale is at public auction, the real property if improved shall not be sold for less than two thirds of the appraised value, or if not improved, for less than one half of the appraised value. In private sales if no sale has been effected af...

...When an action is brought by an executor or administrator to sell real property to pay debts, the real property subject to sale shall include all rights and interests in real property transferred by the decedent in the decedent's lifetime with intent to defraud the decedent's creditors, except that real property fraudulently transferred cannot be taken from any person who purchased them for a valuable considera...

...This chapter extends to an action brought by the trustee of a nonresident minor or person with a mental illness or mental impairment to sell the real property of the ward.

...The money, debts, and other personal property located in Ohio belonging to a nonresident decedent may be delivered to the nonresident executor or administrator without further liability to the estate, provided the person delivering such money, debts, or other personal property has no knowledge of ancillary proceedings being had or having been had in Ohio.

...When a nonresident decedent leaves property in Ohio, ancillary administration proceedings may be had upon application of any interested person in any county in Ohio in which is located property of the decedent, or in which a debtor of such decedent resides. Such applicant may or may not be a creditor of the estate. The ancillary administration first granted shall extend to all the estate of the deceased within the st...

...A will executed, proved, and allowed in a country other than the United States and territories thereof, according to the laws of such foreign state or country, may be allowed and admitted to record in this state in the manner and for the purpose mentioned in sections 2129.07 to 2129.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code.

...Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, the procedure in ancillary administration shall be the same as in the administration of the estates of resident decedents.

...If no domiciliary administration has been commenced, the ancillary administrator shall proceed with the administration in this state as though the decedent had been a resident of this state at the time of the decedent's death.

...Creditors having claims against the estate of a nonresident decedent shall file them with the ancillary administrator who is appointed in accordance with sections 2109.21 and 2129.08 of the Revised Code, within the time and in the manner provided by sections 2117.06 and 2117.07 of the Revised Code.

...If an ancillary administrator finds that the personal property of the nonresident decedent in this state is not sufficient to pay the expenses of administration, public rates and taxes, and other valid claims that have been presented, the ancillary administrator shall proceed to sell as much of the real property of the decedent located in this state that is necessary to pay those debts. The procedure shall be t...

...Within five months after appointment, the ancillary administrator of a nonresident decedent shall forward to the domiciliary administrator, if any, of the decedent, if the name and address of the domiciliary administrator are known, a certificate showing all assets of the estate in this state and all debts and liabilities including estimated expenses of administration. If the name and address of the domiciliary...

...Any person indebted to the estate of a nonresident decedent or holding property belonging thereto may pay such indebtedness or deliver such property to the ancillary administrator when appointed, and shall thereupon be discharged from further liability to said estate.

...The bona fide purchaser of real or personal property sold as provided by law by an ancillary administrator shall take the title free from all obligations of the estate.

...When an ancillary administrator has paid a claim against the estate of a non-resident decedent, such estate shall be fully discharged of all liability therefor.

...Trusts created by a will made out of this state and relating to lands situated herein may be executed as provided in sections 2129.28 to 2129.30, inclusive, of the Revised Code, after the will is admitted to record in this state.

..."Legal disability" as used in Chapters 2101., 2103., 2105., 2107., 2109., 2111., 2113., 2115., 2117., 2119., 2121., 2123., 2125., 2127., 2129., and 2131. of the Revised Code includes the following: (A) Persons under the age of eighteen years; (B) Persons of unsound mind; (C) Persons in captivity; (D) Persons under guardianship of the person and estate, or either.

...As used in sections 2131.03 to 2131.036 of the Revised Code: (A) "Disability" has the same meaning as in the "Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990," 42 U.S.C. 12102; (B) "Supportive services" means any service provided through a program or agency at the federal, state, or local level that is intended to assist a person with a disability with day-to-day responsibilities and activities, including those associate...

...(A) No court, public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency shall deny or limit a person from any of the following solely on the basis that the person has a disability: (1) Exercising custody, parenting time, or visitation rights with a minor; (2) Adopting a minor; (3) Serving as a foster caregiver for a minor; (4) Appointment as a guardian for a minor. (B) Di...

...(A) A court, public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency, when determining whether to grant a person with a disability the right to conduct activities or exercise authority as described in division (A) of section 2131.031 of the Revised Code, shall determine whether modifications or supportive services designed to assist the person regarding the activities or authorit...

...If modifications and supportive services are determined to be necessary and reasonable under section 2131.032 of the Revised Code, the court, public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency that made the determination may require the modifications or services to be implemented to assist the person with a disability to conduct the activities or exercise the authority as de...

...If modifications and supportive services are not determined reasonable under section 2131.032 of the Revised Code, the court, public children services agency, private child placing agency, or private noncustodial agency that made the determination shall deny or limit conduct of activities or exercise of authority described under division (A) of section 2131.031 of the Revised Code by the person with a disability.

...A person with a disability may bring an action or, in the case of a court determination, file a motion, to challenge either of the following: (A) The modifications or supportive services required under section 2131.033 of the Revised Code; (B) The limitation or denial under section 2131.034 of the Revised Code.

...A court shall do one of the following regarding an action or motion under section 2131.035 of the Revised Code: (A) Affirm the modifications or supportive services required under section 2131.033 of the Revised Code or limitation or denial under section 2131.034 of the Revised Code and make specific written findings of fact and conclusions of law providing the basis for its decision as to why reasonable modificatio...

...Remainders, whether vested or contingent, executory interests, and other expectant estates are descendible, devisable, and alienable in the same manner as estates in possession.