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...ns 3105.41 to 3105.54 of the Revised Code do not affect the professional responsibility obligations and standards applicable to a lawyer or other licensed professional or the statutory obligation of a person to report abuse or neglect of a child or adult.

...ative family law communication is confidential to the extent agreed by the parties in a signed record or as provided by the law of this state.

...issible or protected from discovery solely by reason of its disclosure or use in a collaborative family law process.

...r section 3105.49 of the Revised Code relating to that communication.

...onduct or malpractice arising from or related to a collaborative family law process; (2) Sought or offered to prove or disprove abuse, neglect, abandonment, or exploitation of a child, unless a children's or protective service agency or an adult protective services agency is a party to or otherwise participates in the collaborative family law process. (C) There is no privilege under section 3105.49 of the Rev...

... agreement and the parties reasonably believed they were participating in a collaborative family law process. If a court makes such a finding, sections 3105.41 to 3105.54 of the Revised Code apply to the same extent as if the parties had entered into a valid collaborative family law participation agreement.

... Code modify, limit, and supersede the "Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act," 114 Stat. 464, 15 U.S.C. 7001, et seq., but do not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(c) of that act, 15 U.S.C. 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in section 103(b) of that act, 15 U.S.C. 7003(b).

...ns 3105.41 to 3105.54 of the Revised Code may be cited as the "Ohio collaborative family law act."

...The court of common pleas may grant a dissolution of marriage.

...e state for at least six months immediately before filing the petition. Actions for dissolution of marriage shall be brought in the proper county for commencement of actions pursuant to the Rules of Civil Procedure. An action for dissolution of marriage may be brought pursuant to a motion for conversion of a divorce action into an action for dissolution of marriage pursuant to section 3105.08 of the Revised Code. For...

...es. The separation agreement shall provide for a division of all property; spousal support; if there are minor children of the marriage, the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of the minor children, the designation of a residential parent and legal custodian of the minor children, child support, and parenting time rights; and, if the spouses so desire, an authorization for the court to mo...

...(A) Except as provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, not less than thirty nor more than ninety days after the filing of a petition for dissolution of marriage, both spouses shall appear before the court, and each spouse shall acknowledge under oath that that spouse voluntarily entered into the separation agreement appended to the petition, that that spouse is satisfied with its terms, and that that sp...

... upon by the parties, it shall grant a decree of dissolution of marriage that incorporates the separation agreement. If the separation agreement contains a plan for the exercise of shared parenting by the spouses, the court shall review the plan in accordance with the provisions of division (D)(1) of section 3109.04 of the Revised Code that govern the review of a pleading or motion requesting shared parenting j...

...t party's spouse and dependents immediately prior to the filing of the action, that party shall not cancel or otherwise terminate or cause the termination of such coverage for which the spouse and dependents would otherwise be eligible until the court determines that the party is no longer responsible for providing such health insurance coverage for that party's spouse and dependents. (B) If the party responsible fo...

... conduct of the parties, and any other relevant factors the court deems appropriate. (B) In any post-decree motion or proceeding that arises out of an action for divorce, dissolution, legal separation, or annulment of marriage or an appeal of that motion or proceeding, the court may award all or part of reasonable attorney's fees and litigation expenses to either party if the court finds the award equitable. In dete...

... to be received under a plan of payment elected under division (E)(1) of section 145.46, division (B) of section 3307.60, or division (B)(4) of section 3309.46 of the Revised Code. (C) "Lump sum payment" means a payment of accumulated contributions standing to a participant's credit under sections 742.01 to 742.61 or Chapter 145., 3307., 3309., or 5505. of the Revised Code or pursuant to a contract a participa...

...A court that issues an order under section 3105.171 or 3105.65 of the Revised Code that provides for a division of property that includes a benefit or lump sum payment and requires one or more payments from a public retirement program to an alternate payee shall include in the order a requirement that the payments be made in accordance with and subject to limitations set forth in sections 3105.82 to 3105.90 of the Re...

...ly dollar amount should the participant elect a benefit and as a one-time payment should the participant elect a lump sum payment; (2) As a percentage of a fraction determined as follows of a monthly benefit or lump sum payment: (a) The numerator of the fraction shall be the number of years during which the participant was both a contributing member of a public retirement program and married to the alternate payee....

...e benefit for which the participant is eligible; (C) If the participant has not applied for a benefit, the monthly benefit shall be the benefit calculated at the time the participant elects to take it.

...Payments under an order described in section 3105.81 of the Revised Code shall commence as provided under section 145.571, 742.462, 3305.21, 3307.371, 3309.671, or 5505.261 of the Revised Code. An alternate payee has no right or privilege under sections 742.01 to 742.61 or Chapter 145., 3305., 3307., 3309., or 5505. of the Revised Code that is not provided in those sections or chapters. An order described in section...

...An order described in section 3105.81 of the Revised Code shall authorize the board of the public retirement program that is or will be paying the benefit or lump sum payment to withhold from any benefit or payment that is subject to an order an amount determined by the public retirement program to be necessary to defray the cost of administering the order. This amount shall be divided equally between the participant...

...(A) The total of the amounts described in division (D) of section 3105.82 and section 3105.84 of the Revised Code shall not exceed fifty per cent of the amount of a benefit or lump sum payment, or if withholding is to be made from more than one benefit or lump sum payment, fifty per cent of the total of the benefits or lump sum payments. (B) If a participant's benefit or lump sum payment is or will be subject to mor...

...An alternate payee's rights under an order described in section 3105.81 of the Revised Code shall terminate on the earlier of the following: (A) The death of the participant; (B) The death of the alternate payee; (C) The termination of a benefit paid to a participant under sections 742.01 to 742.61 or Chapter 145., 3305., 3307., 3309., or 5505. of the Revised Code.

...The court may order a public retirement program or the Ohio public employees deferred compensation program to provide information from a participant's personal history record necessary to determine the amounts described in division (D) of section 3105.82 of the Revised Code.

...e clerk of courts shall notify the counsel of record that the order was not retained by the public retirement program.