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...(A) A probate court of this state having jurisdiction under section 2112.21 of the Revised Code to appoint a guardian or issue a protective order may decline to exercise the court's jurisdiction if the probate court determines at any time that a court of another state is a more appropriate forum. (B) If a probate court of this state declines to exercise the court's jurisdiction under division (A) of this secti...

...(A) If at any time a probate court of this state determines that the probate court has acquired jurisdiction to appoint a guardian or issue a protective order because of unjustifiable conduct, the probate court may do any of the following: (1) Decline to exercise jurisdiction; (2) Exercise jurisdiction for the limited purpose of fashioning an appropriate remedy to ensure the health, safety, and welfare of th...

...es, to be paid upon the approval of the probate judge; (2) To sheriffs or their deputies, the same fees allowed for similar services in the court of common pleas; (3) To physicians or licensed clinical psychologists acting as expert witnesses and to other expert witnesses designated by the court, an amount determined by the court; (4) To other witnesses, the same fees and mileage as for attendance at the cou...

...es, to be paid upon the approval of the probate judge; (B) To sheriffs or their deputies, the same fees allowed for similar services in the court of common pleas; (C) To physicians or licensed clinical psychologists acting as expert witnesses and to other expert witnesses designated by the court, an amount determined by the court; (D) To witnesses in an administrative proceeding, the same fees and mileage as are p...

...ted by, or to be appointed by, a senior probate judge, the senior probate judge. (D) "Community employment," "competitive employment," and "integrated setting" have the same meanings as in section 5123.022 of the Revised Code. (E) "Supported employment services" means vocational assessment, job training and coaching, job development and placement, worksite accessibility, and other services related to employment o...

...vised Code or files an affidavit in the probate court for the civil commitment of the accused pursuant to Chapter 5122. of the Revised Code alleging that the accused is a person with a mental illness subject to hospitalization by court order. If an affidavit is filed in the probate court, the trial court shall send to the probate court copies of all written reports of the accused's mental condition that were prepared...

...337.13 of the Revised Code, or with any probate court reevaluation order issued pursuant to division (D)(6) of this section, shall not prevent or attempt to prevent, or unreasonably delay or attempt to unreasonably delay, the transfer of the principal to the care of a physician who, or a health care facility that, is willing and able to so comply or allow compliance. (b) If the instruction of an attorney in fact und...

...the person's election to the office of probate judge and before the expiration of the person's term. If a probate judge is interested as heir, legatee, devisee, or other manner in an estate that would otherwise be settled in the probate court of the county where the judge resides, the estate, and all of the accounts of guardians in which the judge is interested, shall be settled by the court of common pleas of...

... be considered estate assets. (B) The probate court shall order the distribution of the allowance for support described in division (A) of this section as follows: (1) If the person died leaving a surviving spouse and no minor children, one hundred per cent to the surviving spouse; (2) If the person died leaving a surviving spouse and minor children, and if all of the minor children are the children of the surv...

...(A) When application is made to the probate court to admit to probate a will that has been lost, spoliated, or destroyed as provided in section 2107.26 of the Revised Code or a document that is treated as a will as provided in section 2107.24 of the Revised Code, the party seeking to prove the will shall give a written notice by certified mail to the surviving spouse of the testator, to all persons who would be ent...

...dministrator or executor shall file in probate court, at any time after the filing of an inventory that includes the real property but prior to the filing of the administrator's or executor's final account, an application requesting the court to issue a certificate of transfer as to the real property. Real property sold by an executor or administrator or land registered under Chapters 5309. and 5310. of the Re...

... correction of the birth record in the probate court of the county of the person's birth or residence or the county in which the person's mother resided at the time of the person's birth. If the person is a minor the application shall be signed by either parent or the person's guardian. (A) An application to correct a birth record shall set forth all of the available facts required on a birth record and the ...

...n, one member shall be appointed by the probate court, one member shall be appointed by the court of common pleas, one member shall be appointed by the board of county commissioners, one member shall be appointed by the chief executive officer of the city that has the largest ratio of housing units owned or managed by the authority to population, and two members shall be appointed by the chief executive officer...

...rs of age or older. (2) On order of a probate court issued under division (B) of section 517.24 of the Revised Code and payment by the person who applied for the order under that division of the reasonable costs and expense of disinterment. (B) No disinterment shall be made pursuant to this section and section 517.24 of the Revised Code if the decedent died of a contagious or infectious disease until a permit has...

...ax commissioner, in duplicate, with the probate court of the county. The return shall include all property the transfer of which is subject to estate taxes, whether that property is transferred under the last will and testament of the decedent or otherwise. The time for filing the return may be extended by the tax commissioner. (b) The estate tax return described in division (A)(1)(a) of this section shall be accom...

... following records shall be kept by the probate court: (A) An administration docket, showing the grant of letters of administration or letters testamentary, 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; (...

...No probate judge shall practice law, be associated with another as partner in the practice of law in a court or tribunal of this state, prepare a complaint or answer, make out an account required for the settlement of an estate committed to the care or management of another, or appear as attorney before a court or judicial tribunal. Whoever violates this section shall forfeit the office of probate judge. The ...

...e said combination and re-establish the probate court. Whenever in any county where such courts have been combined a decennial federal census shows that such county has a population of sixty thousand or more, and such fact is certified by the secretary of state to said court of common pleas and entered upon its journal, the probate court shall be re-established in such county. A probate judge shall be elected for th...

... a will is not entitled to admission to probate, the court shall enter an interlocutory order denying probate of the instrument, and shall continue the matter for further hearing. The court shall order that not less than ten days' notice of the further hearing be given by the applicant, the executor named in the instrument, the persons holding a power to nominate an executor as described in section 2107.65 of the Rev...

...(A) The clerk of the probate court shall furnish a guardianship guide, prepared e ither by the attorney general w ith the approval of the Ohio judicial conference or b y the Ohio judicial conference under division (B) of this section, to a guardian at either of the following times, whichever is applicable: (1) Upon the appointment of the guardian under section 2111.02 of the Revised Code; (2) If the guardian was ...

...ctor and that have been approved by the probate court; (c) The funeral and burial expenses of the decedent that are described in divisions (A)(2)(a) and (b) of this section. (3) "Surviving spouse" means either of the following: (a) The surviving spouse of a decedent who died leaving the surviving spouse and no minor children; (b) The surviving spouse of a decedent who died leaving the surviving spouse and minor c...

...ortionment of the tax. If there are no probate proceedings, the probate court of the county in which the decedent was domiciled at death, upon application by the fiduciary or any other person interested in the estate who objects to the manner of apportionment of a tax, shall determine the apportionment of the tax. (B) The fiduciary may notify any person interested in the estate of the manner of the apportionm...

...cate of the solemnized marriage to the probate court that issued the marriage license within thirty days after performing the ceremony, or, if the person solemnizing the marriage is a probate judge who is acting in accordance with section 2101.27 of the Revised Code and who issued the marriage license to the husband and wife, unless that probate judge files a certificate of the solemnized marriage in the proba...

...will or a trust shall be filed with the probate court. The probate judge, upon the motion of a party or the judge's own motion, may transfer the proceeding to the general division of the court of common pleas. (B) The venue for a complaint under section 5817.02 of the Revised Code is either of the following: (1) The probate court of the county in this state where the testator is domiciled; (2) If the testator ...

...ng on dissolution may be filed with the probate court of the county that created the district at any time not prohibited by this section and shall meet the requirements of this section. (B) The application shall: (1) Bear the signatures of at least twenty-five per cent of the number of voters in the district who voted in the preceding gubernatorial election; (2) Bear the name, address, and telephone number of a...