Section 2101.16 | Fees.

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• Effective: April 7, 2023
• Legislation: House Bill 281 (GA 134), House Bill 45 (GA 134)

(A) Except as provided in section 2101.164 of the Revised Code, the fees enumerated in this division shall be charged and collected, if possible, by the probate judge and shall be in full for all services rendered in the respective proceedings:

(1)	Account, in addition to advertising charges
	___________________________________________________	$12.00
	Waivers and proof of notice of hearing on account, per page, minimum one dollar
	___________________________________________________	$1.00
(2)	Account of distribution, in addition to advertising charges
	___________________________________________________	$7.00
(3)	Adoption of child, petition for
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(4)	Alter or cancel contract for sale or purchase of real property, complaint to
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(5)	Application and order not otherwise provided for in this section or by rule adopted pursuant to division (E) of this section
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(6)	Appropriation suit, per day, hearing in
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(7)	Birth, application for registration of
	___________________________________________________	$7.00
(8)	Birth record, application to correct
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(9)	Bond, application for new or additional
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(10)	Bond, application for release of surety or reduction of
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(11)	Bond, receipt for securities deposited in lieu of
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(12)	Certified copy of journal entry, record, or proceeding, per page, minimum fee one dollar
	___________________________________________________	$1.00
(13)	Citation and issuing citation, application for
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(14)	Change of name, petition for
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(15)	Claim, application of administrator or executor for allowance of administrator's or executor's own
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(16)	Claim, application to compromise or settle
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(17)	Claim, authority to present
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(18)	Commissioner, appointment of
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(19)	Compensation for extraordinary services and attorney's fees for fiduciary, application for
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(20)	Competency, application to procure adjudication of
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(21)	Complete contract, application to
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(22)	Concealment of assets, citation for
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(23)	Construction of will, complaint for
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(24)	Continue decedent's business, application to
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
	Monthly reports of operation
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(25)	Declaratory judgment, complaint for
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(26)	Deposit of will
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(27)	Designation of heir
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(28)	Distribution in kind, application, assent, and order for
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(29)	Distribution under section 2109.36 of the Revised Code, application for an order of
	___________________________________________________	$7.00
(30)	Docketing and indexing proceedings, including the filing and noting of all necessary documents, maximum fee, fifteen dollars
	___________________________________________________	$15.00
(31)	Exceptions to any proceeding named in this section, contest of appointment or
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(32)	Election of surviving partner to purchase assets of partnership, proceedings relating to
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(33)	Election of surviving spouse under will
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(34)	Fiduciary, including an assignee or trustee of an insolvent debtor or any guardian or conservator accountable to the probate court, appointment of
	___________________________________________________	$35.00
(35)	Foreign will, application to record
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
	Record of foreign will, additional, per page
	___________________________________________________	$1.00
(36)	Forms when supplied by the probate court, not to exceed
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(37)	Heirship, complaint to determine
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(38)	Injunction proceedings
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(39)	Improve real property, petition to
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(40)	Inventory with appraisement
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(41)	Inventory without appraisement
	___________________________________________________	$7.00
(42)	Investment or expenditure of funds, application for
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(43)	Invest in real property, application to
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(44)	Lease for oil, gas, coal, or other mineral, petition to
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(45)	Lease or lease and improve real property, petition to
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(46)	Marriage license
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
	Certified abstract of each marriage
	___________________________________________________	$2.00
(47)	Minor or incompetent person, etc., disposal of estate under twenty-five thousand dollars of
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(48)	Mortgage or mortgage and repair or improve real property, complaint to
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(49)	Newly discovered assets, report of
	___________________________________________________	$7.00
(50)	Nonresident executor or administrator to bar creditors' claims, proceedings by
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(51)	Power of attorney or revocation of power, bonding company
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(52)	Presumption of death, petition to establish
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(53)	Probating will
	___________________________________________________	$15.00
	Proof of notice to beneficiaries
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(54)	Purchase personal property, application of surviving spouse to
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(55)	Purchase real property at appraised value, petition of surviving spouse to
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(56)	Receipts in addition to advertising charges, application and order to record
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
	Record of those receipts, additional, per page
	___________________________________________________	$1.00
(57)	Record in excess of fifteen hundred words in any proceeding in the probate court, per page
	___________________________________________________	$1.00
(58)	Release of estate by mortgagee or other lienholder
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(59)	Relieving an estate from administration under section 2113.03 of the Revised Code or granting an order for a summary release from administration under section 2113.031 of the Revised Code
	___________________________________________________	$60.00
(60)	Removal of fiduciary, application for
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(61)	Requalification of executor or administrator
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(62)	Resignation of fiduciary
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(63)	Sale bill, public sale of personal property
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(64)	Sale of personal property and report, application for
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(65)	Sale of real property, petition for
	___________________________________________________	$25.00
(66)	Terminate guardianship, petition to
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(67)	Transfer of real property, application, entry, and certificate for
	___________________________________________________	$7.00
(68)	Unclaimed money, application to invest
	___________________________________________________	$7.00
(69)	Vacate approval of account or order of distribution, motion to
	___________________________________________________	$10.00
(70)	Writ of execution
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(71)	Writ of possession
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(72)	Wrongful death, application and settlement of claim for
	___________________________________________________	$20.00
(73)	Year's allowance, petition to review
	___________________________________________________	$7.00
(74)	Guardian's report, filing and review of
	___________________________________________________	$5.00
(75)	Person with a mental illness subject to court order, filing of affidavit and proceedings for
	___________________________________________________	$25.00

(B)(1) In relation to an application for the appointment of a guardian or the review of a report of a guardian under section 2111.49 of the Revised Code, the probate court, pursuant to court order or in accordance with a court rule, may direct that the applicant or the estate pay any or all of the expenses of an investigation conducted pursuant to section 2111.041 or division (A)(2) of section 2111.49 of the Revised Code. If the investigation is conducted by a public employee or investigator who is paid by the county, the fees for the investigation shall be paid into the county treasury. If the court finds that an alleged incompetent or a ward is indigent, the court may waive the costs, fees, and expenses of an investigation.

(2) In relation to the appointment or functioning of a guardian for a minor or the guardianship of a minor, the probate court may direct that the applicant or the estate pay any or all of the expenses of an investigation conducted pursuant to section 2111.042 of the Revised Code. If the investigation is conducted by a public employee or investigator who is paid by the county, the fees for the investigation shall be paid into the county treasury. If the court finds that the guardian or applicant is indigent, the court may waive the costs, fees, and expenses of an investigation.

(3) In relation to the filing of an affidavit of mental illness for a person with a mental illness subject to court order, the court may waive the fee under division (A)(75) of this section if the court finds that the affiant is indigent or for good cause shown.

(C) Thirty dollars of the thirty-five-dollar fee collected pursuant to division (A)(34) of this section and twenty dollars of the sixty-dollar fee collected pursuant to division (A)(59) of this section shall be deposited by the county treasurer in the indigent guardianship fund created pursuant to section 2111.51 of the Revised Code.

(D) The fees of witnesses, jurors, sheriffs, coroners, and constables for services rendered in the probate court or by order of the probate judge shall be the same as provided for similar services in the court of common pleas.

(E) The probate court, by rule, may require an advance deposit for costs, not to exceed one hundred twenty-five dollars, at the time application is made for an appointment as executor or administrator or at the time a will is presented for probate.

(F)(1) The "putative father registry fund" is hereby created in the state treasury. The department of job and family services shall use the money in the fund to fund the department's costs of performing its duties related to the putative father registry established under section 3107.062 of the Revised Code.

(2) If the department determines that money in the putative father registry fund is more than is needed for its duties related to the putative father registry, the department may use the surplus moneys in the fund as permitted in division (C) of section 2151.3534, division (B) of section 2151.3535, or section 5103.155 of the Revised Code.

The Legislative Service Commission presents the text of this section as a composite of the section as amended by multiple acts of the General Assembly. This presentation recognizes the principle stated in R.C. 1.52(B) that amendments are to be harmonized if reasonably capable of simultaneous operation.

Last updated March 9, 2023 at 5:08 PM

Available Versions of this Section

• April 6, 2017 – Senate Bill 332 (GA 131)
• April 7, 2023 – Amended by House Bill 281 (GA 134), House Bill 45 (GA 134)
• October 3, 2023 – Amended by House Bill 33 - 135th General Assembly