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Ohio Rev Code § 2101.37 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.37 | Judge of Court of Common Pleas to Act as Probate Judge - Compensation.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|When the probate judge of any county is absent, or is unable to attend court, or the volume of work in the judge's office necessitates it, the judge may call upon a judge of the court of common pleas having jurisdiction in that county to act in the probate judge's place or in conjunction with the probate judge, or the probate judge may call upon the chief justice of the supreme court, who shall designate a judge of the court of common pleas or a probate judge to act in the place of the absent or incapacitated probate judge or in conjunction with the absent or incapacitated probate judge. If the probate judge of any county dies or resigns during the judge's term of office, a judge of the court of common pleas of that county shall act in the place of the probate judge until a successor is appointed and qualified. When a judge of the court of common pleas or a probate judge so designated resides outside the county in which the designated judge is called upon to act, the designated judge shall receive the compensation that is provided for judges of the court of common pleas designated by the chief justice to hold court outside their respective counties. The record of the cases shall be made and preserved in the proper records of the probate court by the deputy clerk of the probate court.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.38 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.38 | Administration When the Probate Judge Is Interested.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|Letters testamentary, of administration, or of guardianship shall not be issued to a person after the person's election to the office of probate judge and before the expiration of the person's term. If a probate judge is interested as heir, legatee, devisee, or other manner in an estate that would otherwise be settled in the probate court of the county where the judge resides, the estate, and all of the accounts of guardians in which the judge is interested, shall be settled by the court of common pleas of the county. In those matters and cases in which the judge is interested, the judge shall certify the original papers to the court of common pleas. In other matters and proceedings in a probate court in which the judge of the probate court is interested or in which the judge is required to be a witness to a will, the judge shall, upon the motion of a party interested in the proceedings or upon the judge's own motion, certify the matters and proceedings to the court of common pleas and file with the clerk of the court of common pleas all original papers connected with those matters and proceedings. When a matter or proceeding is so certified, a judge of the court of common pleas shall hear and determine the matter or proceeding in chambers or in open court as though the court had original jurisdiction of the subject matter. Upon final decision of the questions involved in the matter or proceedings, the final settlement of the estate in which the judge is interested as executor, administrator, or guardian, or when the judge's interest in the estate ceases, the clerk shall deliver the original papers to the probate court in which the original papers were filed and make and file in that court an authenticated transcript of the orders, judgments, and proceedings of the court of common pleas. The probate judge shall record the orders, judgments, and proceedings in the proper records.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.39 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.39 | Affidavit of Disqualification.

Effective: November 20, 1996|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 263 - 121st General Assembly|If a probate judge allegedly has a bias or prejudice for or against a party or a party's counsel in a proceeding pending before the judge, allegedly otherwise is interested in a proceeding pending before the judge, or allegedly is disqualified to preside in the proceeding and if the bias, prejudice, interest, or disqualification does not permit or require certification of the proceeding to the court of common pleas as provided by section 2101.38 of the Revised Code, any party to the proceeding or the party's counsel may file an affidavit of disqualification with the clerk of the supreme court. The affidavit of disqualification shall be filed and decided in accordance with divisions (B) to (E) of section 2701.03 of the Revised Code, and, upon the filing of the affidavit, the provisions of those divisions apply to the affidavit, the proceeding, the judge, and the parties to the proceeding.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.40 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.40 | Dealing in Assets of Estate.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A probate judge shall not in any way deal in property or securities involved in probate court cases. This section applies to all appointees of the probate court.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.41 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.41 | Prohibition.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|No probate judge shall practice law, be associated with another as partner in the practice of law in a court or tribunal of this state, prepare a complaint or answer, make out an account required for the settlement of an estate committed to the care or management of another, or appear as attorney before a court or judicial tribunal. Whoever violates this section shall forfeit the office of probate judge. The deputy clerk of a probate court may engage in the practice of law if the deputy's practice is not related in any way to probate law or practice. The deputy may engage in the practice of law only with the continued consent and approval of all of the judges of the probate court.A magistrate appointed solely to conduct hearings under Chapters 5122. and 5123. of the Revised Code may engage in the practice of law, including probate law, except that the magistrate shall not practice law under those chapters other than as a magistrate and shall not knowingly accept any business arising out of or otherwise connected with a proceeding in which the magistrate served as a magistrate under those chapters.The prosecuting attorney shall file the prosecuting attorney's information against a judge or deputy clerk who practices law in violation of this section in the court of common pleas, and proceed as upon indictment.This section does not prevent a probate judge or deputy clerk from finishing business commenced by the judge or deputy clerk prior to the judge's or clerk's election or appointment, provided it is not connected with the official duties of the judge or clerk.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.42 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.42 | Cases Appealable From Probate Court.

Effective: January 1, 1976|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 145 - 111th General Assembly|From any final order, judgment, or decree of the probate court, an appeal on a question of law may be prosecuted to the court of appeals in the manner and within the time provided for the prosecution of such appeals from the court of common pleas to the court of appeals. For the purpose of prosecuting appeals on questions of law from the probate court, the probate court shall exercise judicial functions inferior only to the court of appeals and the supreme court.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.43 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.43 | Petition for Submission of Question of Combining Probate Court and Court of Common Pleas.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|Whenever ten per cent of the number of electors voting for governor at the most recent election in any county having less than sixty thousand population, as determined by the most recent federal census, petition a judge of the court of common pleas of the county, not less than ninety days before any general election for county officers, for the submission to the electors of the county the question of combining the probate court with the court of common pleas, the judge shall place upon the journal of the court an order requiring the sheriff to make proclamation that at the next general election there will be submitted to the electors the question of combining the probate court with the court of common pleas. The clerk of the court of common pleas shall make and deliver a certified copy of the order to the sheriff, and the sheriff shall include notice of the submission of the question in the sheriff's proclamation of election for the next general election. Each elector joining in a petition for the submission of the question of combining the probate court with the court of common pleas shall sign the petition in the elector's own handwriting, unless the elector cannot write and the elector's signature is made by mark, and shall include in the petition the township, precinct, or ward of which the elector is a resident. The petition may consist of as many parts as are convenient. One of the signers to each separate paper shall swear before an officer who is qualified to administer the oath that the petition is bona fide to the best of the signer's knowledge and belief. The oath shall be a part of or attached to the paper. The judge upon receipt of the petition shall deposit it with the clerk of the court of common pleas.No signature shall be taken from or added to the petition after it has been filed with the judge. When deposited the petition shall be preserved and open to public inspection, and, if it is in conformity with this section, it shall be valid unless an objection to the petition is made in writing by an elector of the county within five days after the filing of the petition. The objections, or any other questions arising in the course of the submission of the question of combining the probate court with the court of common pleas, shall be considered and determined by the judge, and the judge's decision shall be final.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.44 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.44 | Conduct of Election - Form of Ballot - Returns and Canvass.

Effective: February 25, 2014|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 109 - 130th General Assembly|The election upon the question of combining the probate court and the court of common pleas shall be conducted as provided for the election of county officers.The board of elections shall provide separate ballots, tally sheets, blanks, stationery, and all such other supplies as may be necessary in the conduct of such election.Ballots shall be printed with an affirmative and negative statement thereon, as follows:The probate court and the court of common pleas shall be combined. The probate court and the court of common pleas shall not be combined. Returns of said election shall be made and canvassed at the same time and in the same manner as an election for county officers. The board shall certify the result of said election to the secretary of state, to the probate judge of said county, and to the judge of the court of common pleas, and such result shall be spread upon the journal of the probate court and of the court of common pleas.If a majority of the votes cast at such an election are in favor of combining said courts, such courts shall stand combined upon determination of the fact that a majority of the persons voting upon the question of the combination of such courts voted in favor of such combination.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.45 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.45 | Probate Division Established - Appeals.

Effective: March 17, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 412 - 116th General Assembly|When the probate court and the court of common pleas have been combined as provided in sections 2101.43 and 2101.44 of the Revised Code, there shall be established in the court of common pleas a probate division and all matters of which the probate court has jurisdiction shall be filed and separately docketed in that division. The resident judge of the court of common pleas shall appoint the necessary deputies, clerks, and assistants to have charge of and perform the work incident to the division. An appeal on questions of law may be prosecuted from that division to the court of appeals.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.46 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.46 | Re-Establishment of the Probate Court.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|After three years from the date of an election held under sections 2101.43 to 2101.45, inclusive, of the Revised Code, another election may be petitioned for and shall be ordered by the judge of the court of common pleas as provided in such sections either to perfect a combination of said court or to dissolve said combination and re-establish the probate court.Whenever in any county where such courts have been combined a decennial federal census shows that such county has a population of sixty thousand or more, and such fact is certified by the secretary of state to said court of common pleas and entered upon its journal, the probate court shall be re-established in such county. A probate judge shall be elected for the regular term at the next election ensuing in an even-numbered year, and the records of the probate division of the court of common pleas shall be delivered to such re-established probate court upon the entry into office of an elected probate judge.
Ohio Rev Code § 2101.99 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2101 | Probate Court - Jurisdiction; Procedure|Section 2101.99 | Penalty.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|(A) Whoever violates section 2101.09 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars.(B) Whoever violates section 2101.15 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than ten nor more than two hundred dollars.(C) Whoever violates section 2101.41 of the Revised Code shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.01 | Property Construed.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|As used in sections 2103.01 to 2103.09 of the Revised Code, unless the context shows that another sense is intended, "property" includes real property and money, choses in action, evidences of debt, and other personal property.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.02 | Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 361 - 100th General Assembly|A spouse who has not relinquished or been barred from it shall be endowed of an estate for life in one third of the real property of which the consort was seized as an estate of inheritance at any time during the marriage. Such dower interest shall terminate upon the death of the consort except:(A) To the extent that any such real property was conveyed by the deceased consort during the marriage, the surviving spouse not having relinquished or been barred from dower therein;(B) To the extent that any such real property during the marriage was encumbered by the deceased consort by mortgage, judgment, lien except tax lien, or otherwise, or aliened by involuntary sale, the surviving spouse not having relinquished or been barred from dower therein. If such real property was encumbered or aliened prior to decease, the dower interest of the surviving spouse therein shall be computed on the basis of the amount of the encumbrance at the time of the death of such consort or at the time of such alienation, but not upon an amount exceeding the sale price of such property.In lieu of such dower interest which terminates pursuant to this section, a surviving spouse shall be entitled to the distributive share provided by section 2105.06 of the Revised Code.Dower interest shall terminate upon the granting of an absolute divorce in favor of or against such spouse by a court of competent jurisdiction within or without this state.Wherever dower is referred to in Chapters 2101. to 2131., inclusive, of the Revised Code, it means the dower to which a spouse is entitled by this section.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.021 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.021 | When Affidavit Required to Preserve Dower.

Effective: October 17, 1961|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 211 - 104th General Assembly|Whenever "trustee," "as trustee," or "agent" follows the name of the grantee in any deed of conveyance of land recorded in this state and no other instrument containing a description of such land has been recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in which such land is situated which puts upon inquiry any person dealing with such land that a spouse of such grantee would have a dower interest in such land, a conveyance of such land by such grantee to a bona fide purchaser conveys a title free from the claims of any spouse of such grantee in such land, for dower, inchoate, or otherwise, unless such spouse, prior to the recording of such conveyance by such grantee to said purchaser, has recorded in the office of the recorder of the county in which the land is situated an affidavit describing such land and setting forth the nature of such spouse's interest in such land.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.03 | Conveyance in Lieu of Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If accepted by the grantee, the conveyance of an estate or interest in real property in lieu of dower, to take effect on the death of the grantor, will bar such grantee's right of dower in the real property of the grantor. If the conveyance was made when the grantee was a minor or during the marriage, the grantee may waive title to such real property and demand dower.When a conveyance which is intended to be in lieu of dower fails through any defect to be a bar thereto, and the widow or widower availing of such defect demands dower, the estate or interest conveyed to such widow or widower shall cease.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.04 | Eviction From Premises Conveyed in Lieu of Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A widow or widower lawfully evicted from real property conveyed in lieu of dower, or any part thereof, shall be endowed with as much of the residue of the real property of the deceased consort as will equal that from which such widow or widower is evicted.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.041 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.041 | Judicial Sale of Dower Interest Without Consent of Spouse.

Effective: October 29, 1999|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 59 - 123rd General Assembly|In any action involving the judicial sale of real property for the purpose of satisfying the claims of creditors of an owner of an interest in the property, the spouse of the owner may be made a party to the action, and the dower interest of the spouse, whether inchoate or otherwise, may be subjected to the sale without the consent of the spouse. The court shall determine the present value and priority of the dower interest in accordance with section 2131.01 of the Revised Code and shall award the spouse a sum of money equal to the present value of the dower interest, to be paid out of the proceeds of the sale according to the priority of the interest. To the extent that the owner and the owner's spouse are both liable for the indebtedness, the dower interest of the spouse is subordinate to the claims of their common creditors.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.05 | Adultery a Bar to Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A husband or wife who leaves the other and dwells in adultery will be barred from dower in the real property of the other, unless the offense is condoned by the injured consort.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.06 | Lands Given Up by Fraud.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If a husband or wife gives up real property by collusion or fraud, or loses it by default, the widow or widower may recover dower therein.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.07 | Dower Is Forfeited by Waste.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A tenant in dower in real property who commits or suffers waste thereto will forfeit that part of the property to which such waste is committed or suffered to the person having the immediate estate in reversion or remainder and will be liable in damages to such person for the waste committed or suffered thereto.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.08 | Assignment of Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Sections 5305.01 to 5305.22, inclusive, of the Revised Code apply to the assignment of the dower of a husband.
Ohio Rev Code § 2103.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2103 | Dower|Section 2103.09 | Estate by Curtesy Abolished.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The estate by the curtesy is abolished; but sections 2103.01 to 2103.09, inclusive, of the Revised Code shall not affect vested rights nor any section of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2105.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2105 | Descent and Distribution|Section 2105.01 | No Distinction Between Ancestral and Nonancestral or Real and Personal Property.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In intestate succession, there shall be no difference between ancestral and nonancestral property or between real and personal property.
Ohio Rev Code § 2105.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2105 | Descent and Distribution|Section 2105.02 | Construction of Living and Died.

Effective: April 6, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 432 - 131st General Assembly|When, in this chapter, a person is described as living, it means that the person was living at the time of the death of the intestate from whom the estate came and that the person lived for at least one hundred twenty hours following the death of the intestate, and when a person is described as having died, it means that the person died before such intestate or that the person failed to live for at least one hundred twenty hours following the death of the intestate.