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... to be distributed from an estate being probated to a trust and the termination of the trust pursuant to this section does not clearly defeat the intent of the testator, the probate court has jurisdiction to order the outright distribution of the property or to make the property custodial property under sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code. A probate court may so order whether the motion for the order is m...

...iation, or corporation appointed by the probate court to have the care and management of the person, the estate, or both of an incompetent or minor. When applicable, "guardian" includes, but is not limited to, a limited guardian, an interim guardian, a standby guardian, and an emergency guardian appointed pursuant to division (B) of section 2111.02 of the Revised Code. "Guardian" also includes an agency under contrac...

...ed until at least seven days after the probate court has caused written notice, setting forth the time and place of the hearing, to be served as follows: (1) In the appointment of the guardian of a minor, notice shall be served as follows: (a) Upon the minor, if over the age of fourteen, by personal service; (b) Upon each parent of the minor whose name and address is known or with reasonable diligence can be...

...protective proceeding in this state, a probate court of this state may request the appropriate court of another state to do any of the following: (1) Hold an evidentiary hearing; (2) Order a person in that state to produce evidence or give testimony pursuant to the procedures of that state; (3) Order that an evaluation or assessment be made of the respondent; (4) Order any appropriate investigation of a pers...

... testimony taken in another state. The probate court on the court's own motion may order that the testimony of a witness be taken in another state and may prescribe the manner in which and the terms upon which the testimony is to be taken. (B) In a guardianship or protective proceeding, a probate court in this state may permit a witness located in another state to be deposed or to testify by telephone, audiov...

... division (B)(2) of this section in the probate court of the county in which the declarant is located. If the individual fails to so file a complaint or if the individual would not be competent to decide whether or not to consent to the withholding or withdrawing of life-sustaining treatment for any of the reasons described in division (C)(2) of section 2133.08 of the Revised Code, the individual's objections as des...

...hat section have been satisfied. (2) A probate court has not reversed the consent to the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in connection with the patient pursuant to division (E) of section 2133.08 of the Revised Code. (3) The attending physician of the patient and one other physician as described in division (A)(2) of section 2133.08 of the Revised Code who examines the patient determine, in g...

...or interlocutory order of adoption by a probate court, the administrative director of an agency, or an attorney, who arranges an adoption for a prospective parent shall provide to the clerk of the probate court either of the following: (a) Any information received pursuant to a request made under this division from the superintendent of BCII or the federal bureau of investigation as part of the criminal records ch...

...f the affidavit has been served on the probate judge, judge of a court of appeals, judge of a court of common pleas, judge of a municipal or county court, or judge of the court of claims against whom the affidavit is filed and on all other parties or their counsel; (4) The date of the next scheduled hearing in the proceeding or, if there is no hearing scheduled, a statement that there is no hearing scheduled. ...

... license shall personally appear in the probate court within the county where either resides, or, if neither is a resident of this state, where the marriage is expected to be solemnized. If neither party is a resident of this state, the marriage may be solemnized only in the county where the license is obtained. Each party shall make application and shall state upon oath, the party's name, age, residence, place of bi...

...y days after the solemnization, to the probate judge of the county in which the marriage license was issued. If, in accordance with section 2101.27 of the Revised Code, a probate judge solemnizes a marriage and if the probate judge issued the marriage license to the husband and wife, the probate judge shall file a certificate of that solemnized marriage in the probate judge's office within thirty days after th...

...juvenile court, or by a commitment of a probate court as provided in this section. A child may be placed temporarily without written consent or court commitment with persons related by blood or marriage or in a legally licensed boarding home. (B)(1) Associations and institutions certified under section 5103.03 of the Revised Code for the purpose of placing children in free foster homes or for legal adoption shall ...

...ection 5119.93 of the Revised Code, the probate court shall examine the petitioner under oath as to the contents of the petition. (B) If, after reviewing the allegations contained in the petition and examining the petitioner under oath, it appears to the probate court that there is probable cause to believe the respondent may reasonably benefit from treatment, the court shall do all of the following: (1) Schedule...

...or 5123.71 of the Revised Code with the probate court in the county where the psychiatric hospital is located or the probate court in the county where the inmate will reside, alleging that the inmate patient is a person with a mental illness subject to court order, as defined in section 5122.01 of the Revised Code, or a person with an intellectual disability subject to institutionalization by court order, as defined ...

...eath, if he died intestate, or from the probate of such owner's will and the election of the relict thereunder, if he died testate, make application to the probate court or the court of common pleas for registration of the title of the deceased in such heirs and devisees according to their respective rights and interests. The application shall be sworn to and shall set forth the lands of which such registered owner d...

...t to disclaim, with the consent of the probate division of the court of common pleas may disclaim, in whole or in part, the succession to any property, or interest in property, that the ward, if an adult and competent, or the deceased, if living, might have disclaimed. The guardian or personal representative, or any interested person may file an application with the probate division of the court of common pleas...

... county having a separate judge of the probate division of the court of common pleas, one probate judge shall be elected who is qualified as required by section 2301.01 of the Revised Code. The probate judge shall hold office for six years, commencing on the ninth day of February next following the judge's election.

...n the discharge of official duties, the probate judge shall give a bond to the state in a sum not less than five thousand dollars. The bond shall have sufficient surety, shall be approved by the board of county commissioners or by the county auditor and county recorder in the absence from the county of two of the members of the board, and shall be conditioned that the judge will faithfully pay over all moneys receive...

...Whenever a jury is required in the probate court, the probate judge shall notify the commissioners of jurors, who shall cause to be drawn from the annual jury list the names of sixteen jurors. Additional names may be drawn if required. The clerk of the court of common pleas or one of the clerk's deputies shall make a list of those names in the order drawn and certify the list to the probate court, and the court...

...final order, judgment, or decree of the probate court, an appeal on a question of law may be prosecuted to the court of appeals in the manner and within the time provided for the prosecution of such appeals from the court of common pleas to the court of appeals. For the purpose of prosecuting appeals on questions of law from the probate court, the probate court shall exercise judicial functions inferior only to the c...

...When the probate court and the court of common pleas have been combined as provided in sections 2101.43 and 2101.44 of the Revised Code, there shall be established in the court of common pleas a probate division and all matters of which the probate court has jurisdiction shall be filed and separately docketed in that division. The resident judge of the court of common pleas shall appoint the necessary deputies, clerk...

...or memorandum shall be deposited in the probate court when the will is probated or within thirty days after the will is probated, unless the court grants an extension of time for good cause shown. A copy may be substituted for the original document, book, record, or memorandum if the copy is certified to be correct by a person authorized to take acknowledgments. (B) Notwithstanding division (A) of this section, if a...

...ator, in the office of the judge of the probate court in the county in which the testator lives, before or after the death of the testator, and if deposited after the death of the testator, with or without applying for its probate. Upon the payment of the fee of twenty-five dollars to the court, the judge shall receive, keep, and give a certificate of deposit for the will. That will shall be safely kept until deliver...

...When admitted to probate every will shall be filed in the office of the probate judge and recorded, together with any testimony or prior judgment of a court declaring the will valid pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 5817.10 of the Revised Code, by the judge or the clerk of the probate court in a book to be kept for that purpose. A copy of the recorded will, with a copy of the order of probate annexed to the co...

...proved, declared valid, or admitted to probate, an authenticated copy of the will and the order of probate or the judgment declaring validity shall be admitted to the record in the office of the probate judge of each county in which the real property is situated upon the order of that judge. The authenticated copy shall have the same validity in the county in which the real property is situated as if probate h...