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Ohio Rev Code § 2101.141 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.141 | Record Disposal.

Effective: September 26, 1990|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 580 - 118th General Assembly|The vouchers, proof, or other evidence filed in support of the expenditures or distribution stated in an account, which has been filed in the probate court, may be ordered destroyed or otherwise disposed of five years after the account with which it was filed has been approved or settled and recorded and after there has been a compliance with section 149.38 of the Revised Code.When the vouchers, proof, or other evidence filed in support of expenditures or distribution stated in an account are microfilmed, they may be ordered destroyed immediately after such record is made and, if required by law, after the approval and settlement of the account.The inventories, schedules of debts, accounts, pleadings, wills, trusts, bonds, and other papers, excluding vouchers or other evidence of expenditures and distributions, filed in the probate courts by fiduciaries appointed by the probate courts, and all pleadings filed and court entries for the determination of inheritance tax under former sections 5731.01 to 5731.56 of the Revised Code, and estate tax under sections 5731.01 to 5731.51 of the Revised Code, and all documents filed or received and entries made by the court in conjunction with the instruments referred to in this section, after having been recorded, if required by law to be recorded, may be ordered microfilmed and destroyed after being microfilmed. All instruments referred to in this paragraph that are not microfilmed may be ordered destroyed or otherwise disposed of without microfilming after a period of twenty-one years has elapsed from the closing or termination of the administration of the estate, trust, or other fiduciary relationship and after there has been a compliance with section 149.38 of the Revised Code.Nothing in this section shall apply to records pertaining to estates on which inheritance tax temporary orders are pending.Prior to the order of the court directing the destruction or disposition of the vouchers, proof, or other evidence of expenditures or distribution, any party in interest, upon application filed, may have the vouchers, proof, or other evidence of expenditures or distribution recorded, upon payment of the costs incident to doing so.An estate, trust, or other fiduciary relationship shall be deemed to be closed or terminated when a final accounting has been filed, and if required by law at the time of filing, the account has been approved and settled.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.15 | Probate Judge to File Itemized Account of Fees With County Auditor.

Effective: August 17, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 7 - 134th General Assembly|In each case, examination, or proceeding, the probate judge shall file an itemized account of fees received or charged by the judge. Not later than the fifteenth day of January, in each year, the judge shall file with the county auditor an account, certified by the judge, of all fees received by the judge during the preceding year. No judge shall fail to perform the duties imposed in this section. At the instance of any person, the prosecuting attorney shall institute and prosecute an action against the defaulting judge. Last updated May 20, 2021 at 2:06 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.161 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.161 | Deposit of Prepaid and Unearned Costs.

Effective: April 14, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 81 - 126th General Assembly|The probate court may order that prepaid and unearned costs be deposited with a bank, savings bank, savings and loan association, credit union, or trust company incorporated under the laws of this state or of the United States. The order shall be entered on the journal of the court and may specify that deposited costs are to be held in an account, or invested in an investment, supervised by the bank, savings bank, association, credit union, or company. Interest earned on deposited costs shall be paid into the county treasury by the end of the calendar year in which it is received.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.163 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.163 | Dispute Resolution Procedures in Probate Court.

Effective: April 8, 2004|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 51 - 125th General Assembly|(A) A probate judge may establish by rule procedures for the resolution of disputes between parties to any civil action or proceeding that is within the jurisdiction of the probate court. Any procedures so adopted shall include, but are not limited to, mediation. If the probate judge establishes any procedures under this division, the probate judge may charge, in addition to the fees and costs authorized under section 2101.16 of the Revised Code, a reasonable fee, not to exceed fifteen dollars, that is to be collected on the filing of each action or proceeding and that is to be used to implement the procedures.(B) The probate court shall pay to the county treasurer of the county in which the court is located all fees collected under division (A) of this section. The treasurer shall place the funds from the fees in a separate fund to be disbursed upon an order of the probate judge.(C) If the probate judge determines that the amount of the moneys in the fund described in division (B) of this section is more than the amount that is sufficient to satisfy the purpose for which the additional fee described in division (A) of this section was imposed, the probate judge may declare a surplus in the fund and expend the surplus moneys for other appropriate judicial expenses of the probate court.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.164 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.164 | Fees Waived for Combat Zone Military Casualties.

Effective: March 24, 2008|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 372 - 127th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "combat zone" means an area that the president of the United States by executive order designates for purposes of 26 U.S.C. 112 as an area in which armed forces of the United States or the national guard are engaging or have engaged in combat. (B) A probate judge shall not charge, or collect from, the estate of a decedent who died while in active service as a member of the armed forces of the United States or the national guard any of the following fees if the death occurred while the decedent was serving in a combat zone or as a result of wounds, disease, or injury incurred while serving in a combat zone:(1) Any fee for or associated with the filing of the decedent's will for probate;(2) Any fee for any service rendered by the probate court that is associated with the administration of the decedent's estate;(3) Any fee for relieving the decedent's 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.(C) In determining whether a decedent died in a place or manner that exempts the estate of the decedent from fees under division (B) of this section, a probate judge may consider a casualty report issued pursuant to Army Regulation 600-8-1 or the regulations of any of the armed services of the United States or the national guard, the list of combat zones set forth in Publication 3, "The Armed Forces' Tax Guide," of the Internal Revenue Service, or any other form of documentation satisfactory to the probate judge.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.165 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.165 | Cancellation of Uncollectible Debts.

Effective: March 22, 2013|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 247 - 129th General Assembly|If at any time the court finds that an amount owing to the court is due and uncollectible, in whole or in part, the court may direct the clerk of the court to cancel all or part of the claim. The clerk shall then effect the cancellation.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.17 | Fees From County Treasury.

Effective: October 12, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly|The fees enumerated in this section shall be paid to the probate court from the county treasury upon the warrant of the county auditor which shall issue upon the certificate of the probate judge and shall be in full for all services rendered in the respective proceedings as follows:(A)For each hearing to determine if a person is a mentally ill individual subject to hospitalization when the person is committed to a state hospital or to relatives  _____________________________________________$ 12.00;(B)When the person is discharged  _____________________________________________7.00;(C)For order of return of a mentally ill person to a state hospital or removal therefrom  _____________________________________________2.00;(D)For proceedings for committing a person to an institution for persons with intellectual disabilities  _____________________________________________10.00;(E)For habeas corpus proceedings when a person is confined under color of proceedings in a criminal case and is discharged  ____________________________________________10.00;(F)When acting as a juvenile judge, for each case filed against a delinquent, dependent, unruly, or neglected child, or a juvenile traffic offender  _____________________________________________5.00;(G)For proceedings to take a child from parents or other persons having control thereof  _____________________________________________5.00.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.18 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.18 | Fees for Other Services.

Effective: April 11, 1991|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 211 - 118th General Assembly|For services for which compensation is not provided but subject to section 2101.27 of the Revised Code insofar as the probate judge solemnizes marriages, the probate judge shall be allowed the same fees as are allowed the clerk of the court of common pleas for similar services.The probate judge shall administer oaths and make certificates in pension and bounty cases without compensation.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.19 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.19 | Limitation of Charges by Probate Judge - Probate Court Conduct of Business Fund.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|(A) No probate judge or probate judge's deputy clerk shall sell or offer for sale for more than one dollar any merchandise to be used in connection with any license, order, or document issued by the probate court, or make any charge in connection with the issuance of any license, order, or document except that specifically provided by law. (B) All moneys obtained from the sale of merchandise to be used in connection with any license, order, or document issued by a probate court shall be paid by the probate judge or the deputy clerk of the court into the county treasury. The moneys shall be credited to a fund to be known as the probate court conduct of business fund. The moneys so credited shall be used solely for the conduct of the business of the probate court.(C) Upon receipt of an order of the probate judge for the payment of moneys from the fund for the conduct of the business of the court, the county auditor shall draw a warrant on the county treasurer for the amount of money specified in the order, but not exceeding the balance of the moneys in the fund, which warrant shall be made payable to the probate judge or another person designated in the order.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.20 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.20 | Reduction of Fees.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|When the aggregate amount of fees and allowances collected by the probate judge in any calendar year exceeds by more than ten per cent the amount necessary to pay the salaries of the judge and the employees of the probate court, including court constables, for the same calendar year, the judge may, by an order entered on the judge's journal, provide for a discount of all the fees and allowances the judge is required to charge and collect for the use of the county by fixing a per cent of discount that shall be applied to all the earnings of the office for the ensuing year and shall constitute the legal fees of the office for that year.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.21 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.21 | Fiduciary - Payment of Costs in Advance.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Before appointing any person as a fiduciary, the probate court may require payment of the costs incident to such appointment.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.22 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.22 | Process.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|The probate judge shall issue any process, notices, commissions, rules, and orders that are necessary to carry into effect the powers granted to the judge.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.23 | Contempt.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|The probate judge may keep order in the judge's court and has authority throughout the state to compel performance of any duty incumbent upon any fiduciary appointed by or accounting to the judge. The probate judge may punish any contempt of the judge's authority as that contempt might be punished in the court of common pleas. If a person neglects or refuses to perform an order or judgment of a probate court, other than for the payment of money, the person is guilty of contempt of court, and the judge shall issue a summons directing the person to appear before the court within two days from the service of the summons and show cause why the person should not be punished for contempt. If it appears to the judge that the person is attempting to avoid the process of the court or is about to leave the county for that purpose, the judge may issue an attachment instead of the summons, commanding the officer to whom it is directed, to bring the person before the judge to answer for contempt. If no sufficient excuse is shown, the person shall be punished for contempt.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.25 | Optional Jurisdiction of Probate Judge.

Effective: September 4, 1957|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 35 - 102nd General Assembly|When any action for the appropriation of property or any appeal in a road case, in a sewer district case, or in any county water supply system case is filed in the probate court, the judge may certify such cause to the court of common pleas of the county, together with all the papers filed therein, whereupon the clerk of the court of common pleas shall file said papers and enter said cause on the docket. Thereupon the court of common pleas shall have jurisdiction to hear, determine, and make record of said cause, as if commenced in such court. The court of common pleas, upon said case being docketed in that court, shall advance the same for trial at the earliest date permitted, on application by any party to said case.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.26 | Referring Information as to Abuse, Exploitation or Theft to Law Enforcement Agency.

Effective: January 1, 1990|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 46 - 118th General Assembly|If the probate judge receives information of the alleged abuse or financial exploitation of a person of advanced age or of an incompetent or minor under guardianship, or receives information of an alleged theft from the estate of a decedent, the judge may refer the information to the appropriate law enforcement agency of the political subdivision in which the abuse, exploitation, or theft allegedly occurred, which agency shall conduct an investigation to determine whether there is probable cause to believe that a violation of any section of the Revised Code that sets forth a criminal offense, or of any ordinance, resolution, or regulation of a municipal corporation or other political subdivision of the state that sets forth a criminal offense, has occurred. Upon completion of the investigation, the law enforcement agency involved shall file with the judge a report that summarizes its findings and indicates whether an indictment will be sought or charges will be filed as a result of the investigation.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.27 | Probate Judge Has Authority to Solemnize Marriage Within County.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|(A) A probate judge has jurisdiction and authority to solemnize marriages within the county and may charge a fee for providing the service in accordance with division (B) of this section. The fee charged is subject to disposition in accordance with division (C) of this section. (B)(1) If a probate judge intends to charge a fee for solemnizing any marriage in accordance with division (A) of this section, prior to doing so, the probate judge, by rule, shall establish a reasonable fee for providing the service.(2) Division (B)(1) of this section does not do either of the following:(a) Require a probate judge who, by rule, has established a reasonable fee for solemnizing marriages to charge that fee for every marriage that the probate judge solemnizes;(b) Affect specific fees to which the probate judge is entitled under section 2101.16 or any other section of the Revised Code for issuing marriage licenses, recording returns of solemnized marriages, providing certified abstracts of marriages, or performing any other task related to a marriage other than its solemnization.(C) If, in accordance with division (B) of this section, a reasonable fee is charged by a probate judge for solemnizing any marriage, the probate judge shall not retain any portion of that fee and instead shall pay the entire fee into the county treasury. The county treasurer shall credit the fee to the general fund of the county.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.30 | Jury - Drawing.

Effective: May 22, 2012|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 268 - 129th General Assembly|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 shall issue a summons commanding the persons whose names were drawn to appear on the day and at the hour set for trial. The probate court shall deliver the summons to the sheriff, who shall serve it within five days of delivery and make prompt return of the service.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.31 | Determination of Questions of Fact.

Effective: July 6, 2001|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 108 - 124th General Assembly|All questions of fact shall be determined by the probate judge, unless the judge orders those questions of fact to be tried before a jury or refers those questions of fact to a special master commissioner as provided in sections 2101.06 and 2101.07 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.32 | Rules and Procedure of Court of Common Pleas to Govern - Power to Award and Tax Costs.

Effective: January 1, 1990|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 46 - 118th General Assembly|The probate judge shall have the powers and perform the duties provided for, and shall be governed by the sections of the Revised Code and rules that apply to, the courts of common pleas and the judges of those courts. The Rules of Civil Procedure shall govern actions and proceedings in the probate court as provided in Civil Rule 73.In all actions or proceedings in the probate court, whether ex parte or adversary, costs may be awarded to, taxed against, and apportioned between the parties, whether on the same or adverse sides, including, but not limited to, costs covered by division (B) of section 2101.16 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.33 | Vacation and Modification of Judgments.

Effective: August 6, 1976|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 390 - 111th General Assembly|The probate court has the same power as the court of common pleas to vacate or modify its orders or judgments.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.34 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.34 | Judgments by Confession.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|If the judges of the court of common pleas are absent from the county or are under a disability, the probate judge of the county may enter judgments by confession in cases pending in the court of common pleas of the judge's county.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.35 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.35 | Execution.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Orders for the payment of money may be enforced as judgments in the court of common pleas. Such execution shall be directed to the sheriff, or, in the sheriff's absence or disability, to the coroner.