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...All cases arising under sections 2107.01 to 2107.62, inclusive, of the Revised Code, in which devisees or legatees are required to contribute or in which contribution is to be made among devisees, legatees, and heirs, may be heard and determined in a single action.

...The expense of proving and recording wills and of any action for declaratory judgment of validity shall be paid by the party at whose instance this is done. The witnesses and officers shall have the same fees for attendance and services as in other cases. When the executor or administrator is appointed, the expense shall be reimbursed out of the estate.

...A testator may by will devise, bequeath, or appoint real or personal property or any interest in real or personal property to a trustee of a trust that is evidenced by a written instrument signed by the testator or any other settlor either before or on the same date of the execution of the will of the testator, that is identified in the will, and that has been signed, or is signed at any time after the execution of t...

...A policy of life insurance, or an employee or self-employed benefit plan including, but not limited to, an employee trust or annuity plan, a Keogh plan, an individual retirement account or annuity, or a retirement bond, may designate as beneficiary a trustee named by will. Upon qualification and issuance of letters of trusteeship, the proceeds of the insurance or benefit plan shall be payable to the trustee to be hel...

...A testator may confer in the testator's will, upon one or more persons, the power to nominate, in writing, an executor, coexecutor, successor executor, or successor coexecutor, and also may provide in the will that the person or persons so nominated may serve without bond. If a will confers that power, the holders of it have the authority to nominate themselves as executor, coexecutor, successor executor, or su...

...(A) The Rules of Civil Procedure govern all aspects of a will contest action, except as otherwise provided in sections 2107.71 to 2107.77 of the Revised Code. (B)(1) Each party to a will contest action has the right to a jury trial of the action. To assert the right, a party shall demand a jury trial in the manner prescribed in the Rules of Civil Procedure. Subject to division (B)(2) of this section, if a party dema...

...Persons who are necessary parties to a will contest action are as follows: (A) Any person designated in a will to receive a testamentary disposition of real or personal property; (B) Heirs who would take property pursuant to section 2105.06 of the Revised Code had the testator died intestate; (C) The executor or the administrator with the will annexed; (D) The attorney general as provided by section 109.25 of...

...When the jury or the court finds that the writing produced is not the will or codicil of the testator, the trial court shall allow as part of the costs of administration the amounts to the fiduciary and to the attorneys defending the purported will or purported codicil that the trial court finds to be reasonable compensation for the services rendered in the will contest action. The court shall order the amounts...

...As used in sections 2108.02 to 2108.35 of the Revised Code: (A) "Adult" means an individual who is at least eighteen years of age. (B) "Agent" means an individual who is either of the following: (1) The principal's attorney in fact under a durable power of attorney for health care; (2) Expressly authorized to make an anatomical gift on the principal's behalf by any other record signed by the principal. (C)...

...Sections 2108.01 to 2108.29 of the Revised Code are enacted to adopt the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act (2006), national conference of commissioners on uniform state laws.

...Sections 2108.01 to 2108.29 of the Revised Code apply to an anatomical gift or amendment to, revocation of, or refusal to make an anatomical gift, whenever made.

...Subject to section 2108.08 of the Revised Code, an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part may be made during the life of the donor for the purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education in the manner provided in section 2108.05 of the Revised Code by any of the following: (A) The donor, if the donor is an adult or if the donor is a minor and either of the following applies: (1) The donor is em...

...(A) A donor may make an anatomical gift by doing any of the following: (1) Authorizing a statement or symbol to be imprinted on the donor's driver's license or identification card indicating that the donor has certified a willingness to make an anatomical gift; (2) Specifying during an application for or renewal of a motor vehicle registration that the donor has certified a willingness to make an anatomical gift...

...(A) Subject to section 2108.08 of the Revised Code, an anatomical gift made under section 2108.04 of the Revised Code may be amended by any of the following means: (1) By a record signed by the donor or other person authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 2108.04 of the Revised Code; (2) Subject to division (C) of this section, by a record signed by another individual acting at the direction of the d...

...(A) An individual may refuse to make an anatomical gift of the individual's body or part by doing any of the following: (1) Indicating a refusal in a record signed by either of the following: (a) The individual; (b) Subject to division (B) of this section, another individual acting at the direction of the individual, if the individual is physically unable to sign. (2) Indicating a refusal by any form of comm...

...(A) Subject to division (F) of this section, in the absence of an express, contrary indication by the donor, a person other than the donor shall be barred from making, amending, or revoking an anatomical gift of a donor's body or part if the donor made an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under section 2108.05 of the Revised Code or an amendment to an anatomical gift of the donor's body or part under ...

...(A) Subject to divisions (B) and (C) of this section, and unless barred by section 2108.07 or 2108.08 of the Revised Code, an anatomical gift of a decedent's body or part for purpose of transplantation, therapy, research, or education may be made in the manner provided for under section 2108.10 of the Revised Code by any member of the following classes of persons who is reasonably available, in the following o...

...(A) A person authorized to make an anatomical gift under section 2108.09 of the Revised Code may make an anatomical gift by a document of gift signed by the person making the gift or by that person's oral communication that is electronically recorded or is contemporaneously reduced to a record and signed by the individual receiving the oral communication. (B) Subject to division (C) of this section, an anatom...

...(A) An anatomical gift may be made to any of the following persons named in the document of gift: (1) A hospital; an accredited medical school, dental school, college, or university; an organ procurement organization; or another appropriate person, for research or education; (2) Subject to division (B) of this section, an individual designated by the person making the anatomical gift if the individual is the ...

...(A) If any of the following persons, while acting in the course of the person's official duties, finds an individual and reasonably believes that the individual is dead or near death, the person shall make a reasonable search of the body of the individual for a document of gift or other information identifying the individual as a donor or as an individual who made a refusal: (1) A law enforcement offic...

...(A) A document of gift need not be delivered during the donor's lifetime to be effective. (B) On or after an individual's death, a person in possession of a document of gift or a refusal to make an anatomical gift with respect to the individual shall allow examination and copying of the document of gift or refusal by a person authorized to make or object to the making of an anatomical gift with respect to the...

...(A) When a hospital employee or agent refers an individual at or near death to a procurement organization, the organization shall make a reasonable search of the records of the bureau of motor vehicles and any donor registry that it knows exists for the geographical area in which the individual resides to ascertain whether the individual has made an anatomical gift. The bureau of motor vehicles shall allow...

...Subject to division (I) of section 2108.11 and sections 2108.26 to 2108.272 of the Revised Code, the rights of the person to which a part passes under section 2108.11 of the Revised Code shall be superior to the rights of all others with respect to the part. The person may accept or reject an anatomical gift in whole or in part. Subject to the terms of the document of gift and sections 2108.01 to 2...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, a physician or technician may remove a donated part from the body of a donor that the physician or technician is qualified to remove. (B) Neither the physician who attends the decedent at death nor the physician who determines the time of the decedent's death shall participate in the procedures for removing or transplanting a part from the decedent.

...Each hospital in this state shall enter into agreements or affiliations with procurement organizations for coordination of procurement and use of anatomical gifts.