Ohio Rev Code § 2101.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.16 | Fees.

Effective: April 6, 2017|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 332 - 131st General Assembly|(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  ___________________________________________________$ 50.00(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)Mentally ill person 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 mentally ill person 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) Thirty dollars of the fifty-dollar fee collected pursuant to division (A)(3) of this section shall be deposited into the "putative father registry fund," which 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 2151.3530, 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.