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Ohio Rev Code § 2111.041 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.041 | Investigating Circumstances of Alleged Incompetent.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|(A) At the time of the service of notice upon an alleged incompetent, as required by division (A)(2)(a) of section 2111.04 of the Revised Code, the court shall require a regular probate court investigator appointed or designated under section 2101.11 of the Revised Code or appoint a temporary probate court investigator to investigate the circumstances of the alleged incompetent, and, to the maximum extent feasible, to communicate to the alleged incompetent in a language or method of communication that the alleged incompetent can understand, the alleged incompetent's rights as specified in that division, and subsequently to file with the court a report that contains all of the following: (1) A statement indicating that the notice was served and describing the extent to which the alleged incompetent's rights to be present at the hearing, to contest any application for the appointment of a guardian for the alleged incompetent's person, estate, or both, and to be represented by an attorney were communicated to the alleged incompetent in a language or method of communication understandable to the alleged incompetent;(2) A brief description, as observed by the investigator, of the physical and mental condition of the alleged incompetent;(3) A recommendation regarding the necessity for a guardianship or a less restrictive alternative;(4) A recommendation regarding the necessity of appointing pursuant to section 2111.031 of the Revised Code, an attorney to represent the alleged incompetent.(B) The report that is required by division (A) of this section shall be made a part of the record in the case and shall be considered by the court prior to establishing any guardianship for the alleged incompetent.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.042 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.042 | Investigating and Report Regarding Guardianship of Minor.

Effective: November 9, 1994|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 457 - 120th General Assembly|(A) In connection with the appointment of a guardian for a minor or the functioning of the guardianship of a minor, the court may appoint a regular probate court investigator appointed or designated under section 2101.11 of the Revised Code or appoint a temporary probate court investigator to investigate the need for, or the circumstances of, the guardianship and to file with the court a report that contains all of the following:(1) A brief description, as observed by the investigator, of the physical and mental condition of the minor;(2) If a guardian already has been appointed, a brief description, as observed by the investigator, of the circumstances and functioning of the guardianship;(3) If no guardian has been appointed, a brief recommendation regarding the necessity for a guardianship.(B) The report that is required pursuant to division (A) of this section shall be made part of the record in the case and shall be considered by the court prior to establishing any guardianship for the minor, if no guardianship has been established, and prior to making any change in the guardianship or the functioning of the guardianship, if a guardian already has been appointed.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.05 | Termination of Guardianship Based on Value of Ward's Estate.

Effective: March 24, 2010|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 106 - 128th General Assembly|When the whole estate of a ward does not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in value, the guardian may apply to the probate court for an order to terminate the guardianship. Upon proof that it would be for the best interest of the ward to terminate the guardianship, the court may order the guardianship terminated, and direct the guardian, if the ward is a minor, to deposit the assets of the guardianship in a depository authorized to receive fiduciary funds, payable to the ward when the ward attains majority, or the court may authorize the delivery of the assets to the natural guardian of the minor, to the person by whom the minor is maintained, to the executive director of children services in the county, or to the minor's own self. If the ward is an incompetent, and the court orders the guardianship terminated, the court may authorize the deposit of the assets of the guardianship in a depository authorized to receive fiduciary funds in the name of a suitable person to be designated by the court, or if the assets do not consist of money, the court may authorize delivery to a suitable person to be designated by the court. The person receiving the assets shall hold and dispose of them in the manner the court directs.If the court refuses to grant the application to terminate the guardianship, or if no such application is presented to the court, the guardian only shall be required to render account upon the termination of the guardianship, upon order of the probate court made upon its own motion, or upon the order of the court made on the motion of a person interested in the wards or their property, for good cause shown, and set forth upon the journal of the court.If the estate is twenty-five thousand dollars or less and the ward is a minor, the court, without the appointment of a guardian by the court, or the giving of bond, may authorize the deposit in a depository authorized to receive fiduciary funds, payable to the guardian when appointed, or to the ward when the ward attains majority, or the court may authorize delivery to the natural guardian of the minor, to the person by whom the minor is maintained, to the executive director who is responsible for the administration of children services in the county, or to the minor's own self.If the whole estate of a person over eighteen years of age, who has been adjudged incompetent, does not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in value, the court, without the appointment of a guardian by the court or the giving of bond, may authorize the deposit of the estate in a depository authorized to receive fiduciary funds in the name of a suitable person to be designated by the court, or if the assets do not consist of money, the court may authorize delivery to a suitable person to be designated by the court. The person receiving the assets shall hold and dispose of them in the manner the court directs.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.06 | Guardian of the Person.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|If the powers of the person appointed as guardian of a minor or incompetent are not limited by the order of appointment, the person shall be guardian both of the person and estate of the ward. In every instance the court shall appoint the same person as guardian of the person and estate of the ward, unless in the opinion of the court the interests of the ward will be promoted by the appointment of different persons as guardians of the person and of the estate. A guardian of the person of a minor shall be appointed as to a minor having no father or mother, whose parents are unsuitable persons to have the custody of the minor and to provide for the education of the minor as required by section 3321.01 of the Revised Code, or whose interests, in the opinion of the court, will be promoted by the appointment of a guardian. A guardian of the person shall have the custody and provide for the maintenance of the ward, and if the ward is a minor, the guardian shall also provide for the education of the ward as required by section 3321.01 of the Revised Code.Before exercising its jurisdiction to appoint a guardian of a minor, the court shall comply with the jurisdictional standards of sections 3127.01 to 3127.53 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.07 | Powers of Guardian of Person and Estate.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|Each person appointed guardian of the person and estate of a minor shall have the custody of the ward, the obligation to provide for the education of the ward as required under section 3321.01 of the Revised Code, and the management of the ward's estate during minority, unless the guardian is removed or discharged from that trust or the guardianship terminates from any of the causes specified in Chapters 2101. to 2131. of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.08 | Parents Are Natural Guardians.

Effective: April 11, 1991|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 3 - 118th General Assembly|The wife and husband are the joint natural guardians of their minor children and are equally charged with their care, nurture, welfare, and education and the care and management of their estates. The wife and husband have equal powers, rights, and duties and neither parent has any right paramount to the right of the other concerning the parental rights and responsibilities for the care of the minor or the right to be the residential parent and legal custodian of the minor, the control of the services or the earnings of such minor, or any other matter affecting the minor; provided that if either parent, to the exclusion of the other, is maintaining and supporting the child, that parent shall have the paramount right to control the services and earnings of the child. Neither parent shall forcibly take a child from the guardianship of the parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian of the child.If the wife and husband live apart, the court may award the guardianship of a minor to either parent, and the state in which the parent who is the residential parent and legal custodian or who otherwise has the lawful custody of the minor resides has jurisdiction to determine questions concerning the minor's guardianship.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.09 | Administrator or Executor Ineligible to Be Appointed Guardian.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|Unless expressly appointed or designated to act both as guardian and executor by a will in writing, no person who is or has been an administrator or executor of a will shall, prior to the approval of the person's final account as executor or administrator, be appointed a guardian of the person and estate or of the estate only of a ward who is interested in the estate administered upon or entitled to an interest under the will, except that a surviving spouse may be executor or administrator of the deceased spouse's estate and also guardian of the person and estate or of the estate only of a minor child of the surviving spouse, whether or not the minor child is interested in the estate of the deceased spouse. However, an executor or an administrator may be appointed a guardian of the person only of a ward.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.091 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.091 | Restrictions on Attorney Representing Guardian.

Effective: January 13, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly|No attorney who represents any other person and who is appointed as a guardian under this chapter or under any other provision of the Revised Code shall do either of the following: (A) Act as a person with co-responsibility for any guardianship asset for which the guardian is responsible;(B) Be a cosignatory on any financial account related to the guardianship, including any checking account, savings account, or other banking or trust account.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.10 | Corporation as Guardian.

Effective: August 17, 2021|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 7 - 134th General Assembly|(A) As used in this section, "developmental disability" has the same meaning as in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code. (B) Any appointment of a corporation as guardian shall apply to the estate only and not to the person, except when either of the following applies: (1) A nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of this state and entitled to tax exempt status under section 501(a) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 501 that has a contract with the department of developmental disabilities to provide protective services may be appointed as a guardian of a person with a developmental disability and may serve as guardian pursuant to sections 5123.55 to 5123.59 of the Revised Code. (2) A nonprofit corporation domiciled in this state and organized under the laws of this state and entitled to tax exempt status under section 501(a) of the "Internal Revenue Code of 1986," 100 Stat. 2085, 26 U.S.C. 501 may be appointed as a guardian of the person of an incompetent when certified by the probate court to receive such an appointment. The probate court shall certify that nonprofit corporation and any individual acting as a guardian on behalf of the nonprofit corporation upon meeting the requirements for serving as a guardian as prescribed by the supreme court in the Rules of Superintendence for the Courts of Ohio and the rules of court adopted by the probate court of the county exercising jurisdiction over the incompetent. A nonprofit corporation appointed as guardian of the person of an incompetent shall not be the residential caregiver, health care provider, or employer of the incompetent. Last updated May 20, 2021 at 2:10 PM
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.11 | Spouse May Be Appointed Guardian.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a guardian is appointed for a person having a spouse, the court may appoint such spouse as the guardian, if it is made to appear to the satisfaction of the court that such spouse is competent to discharge the duties of such appointment.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.12 | Guardian of Minor.

Effective: March 22, 2012|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 124, Senate Bill 117 - 129th General Assembly|(A) A minor over the age of fourteen years may select a guardian who shall be appointed if a suitable person. If a minor over the age of fourteen years fails to select a suitable person, an appointment may be made without reference to the minor's wishes. The minor shall not select one person to be the guardian of the minor's estate only and another to be the guardian of the person only, unless the court that appoints the guardian is of the opinion that the interests of that minor will be promoted by that selection. (B) A surviving parent by a will in writing may appoint a guardian for any of the surviving parent's children, whether born at the time of making the will or afterward, to continue during the minority of the child or for a less time.When the father or mother of a minor names a person as guardian of the estate of that minor in a will, the person named shall have preference in appointment over the person selected by the minor. A person named in that will as guardian of the person of that minor shall have no preference in appointment over the person selected by the minor, but in that event the probate court may appoint the person named in the will, the person selected by the minor, or some other person.Whenever a testamentary guardian is appointed, the testamentary guardian's duties, powers, and liabilities in all other respects shall be governed by the law regulating guardians not appointed by will.(C) A parent pursuant to a durable power of attorney under section 1337.24 or a writing as described in division (A) of section 2111.121 of the Revised Code may nominate a person to be a guardian for one or more of the parent's minor children, whether born at the time of the making of the nomination or afterward.  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.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.13 | Duties of Guardian of Person.

Effective: October 12, 2006|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 426 - 126th General Assembly|(A) When a guardian is appointed to have the custody and maintenance of a ward, and to have charge of the education of the ward if the ward is a minor, the guardian's duties are as follows:(1) To protect and control the person of the ward;(2) To provide suitable maintenance for the ward when necessary, which shall be paid out of the estate of such ward upon the order of the guardian of the person;(3) To provide such maintenance and education for such ward as the amount of the ward's estate justifies when the ward is a minor and has no father or mother, or has a father or mother who fails to maintain or educate the ward, which shall be paid out of such ward's estate upon the order of the guardian of the person;(4) To obey all the orders and judgments of the probate court touching the guardianship.(B) Except as provided in section 2111.131 of the Revised Code, no part of the ward's estate shall be used for the support, maintenance, or education of such ward unless ordered and approved by the court.(C) A guardian of the person may authorize or approve the provision to the ward of medical, health, or other professional care, counsel, treatment, or services unless the ward or an interested party files objections with the probate court, or the court, by rule or order, provides otherwise.(D) Unless a person with the right of disposition for a ward under section 2108.70 or 2108.81 of the Revised Code has made a decision regarding whether or not consent to an autopsy or post-mortem examination on the body of the deceased ward under section 2108.50 of the Revised Code shall be given, a guardian of the person of a ward who has died may consent to the autopsy or post-mortem examination.(E) If a deceased ward did not have a guardian of the estate, the estate is not required to be administered by a probate court, and a person with the right of disposition for a ward, as described in section 2108.70 or 2108.81 of the Revised Code, has not made a decision regarding the disposition of the ward's body or remains, the guardian of the person of the ward may authorize the burial or cremation of the ward.(F) A guardian who gives consent or authorization as described in divisions (D) and (E) of this section shall notify the probate court as soon as possible after giving the consent or authorization.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.131 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.131 | Court Order for Payments of No More Than $5,000 Due to Minor.

Effective: April 6, 2017|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 432 - 131st General Assembly|(A) The probate court may enter an order that authorizes a person under a duty to pay or deliver money or personal property to a minor who does not have a guardian of the person and estate or a guardian of the estate, to perform that duty in amounts not exceeding five thousand dollars annually, by paying or delivering the money or property to any of the following:(1) The guardian of the person only of the minor;(2) The minor's natural guardians, if any, as determined pursuant to section 2111.08 of the Revised Code;(3) The minor;(4) Any person who has the care and custody of the minor and with whom the minor resides, other than a guardian of the person only or a natural guardian;(5) A financial institution incident to a deposit in a federally insured savings account in the sole name of the minor;(6) A custodian designated by the court in its order, for the minor under sections 5814.01 to 5814.10 of the Revised Code.(B) An order entered pursuant to division (A) of this section authorizes the person or entity specified in it, to receive the money or personal property on behalf of the minor from the person under the duty to pay or deliver it, in amounts not exceeding five thousand dollars annually. Money or personal property so received by guardians of the person only, natural guardians, and custodians as described in division (A)(4) of this section may be used by them only for the support, maintenance, or education of the minor involved. The order of the court is prima-facie evidence that a guardian of the person only, a natural guardian, or a custodian as described in division (A)(4) of this section has the authority to use the money or personal property received.(C) A person who pays or delivers moneys or personal property in accordance with a court order entered pursuant to division (A) of this section is not responsible for the proper application of the moneys or property by the recipient.
Ohio Rev Code § 2111.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile|Chapter 2111 | Guardians; Conservatorships|Section 2111.14 | Duties of Guardian of Estate.

Effective: September 8, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 166 - 131st General Assembly|(A) In addition to a guardian's other duties, every guardian appointed to take care of the estate of a ward shall have the following duties:(1) To make and file within three months after the guardian's appointment a full inventory of the real and personal property of the ward, its value, and the value of the yearly rent of the real property, provided that, if the guardian fails to file the inventory for thirty days after having been notified of the expiration of the time by the probate judge, the judge shall remove the guardian and appoint a successor;(2) To manage the estate for the best interest of the ward;(3) To pay all just debts due from the ward out of the estate in the possession or under the control of the guardian, collect all debts due to the ward, compound doubtful debts, and appear for and defend, or cause to be defended, all suits against the ward;(4) To obey all orders and judgments of the courts touching the guardianship;(5) To bring suit for the ward when a suit is in the best interests of the ward;(6) To settle and adjust, when necessary or desirable, the assets that the guardian may receive in kind from an executor or administrator to the greatest advantage of the ward. Before a settlement and adjustment is valid and binding, it shall be approved by the probate court and the approval shall be entered on its journal. The guardian also shall have the approval of the probate court to hold the assets as received from the executor or administrator or to hold what may be received in the settlement and adjustment of those assets.(B) No guardian appointed to take care of the estate of a ward may open a safety deposit box held in the name of the ward until the probate court issues a release to the guardian permitting the guardian to have access to the safety deposit box, which the court shall issue upon the guardian filing a request to obtain that access.