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Ohio Rev Code § 5303.23 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.23 | Order for Sale and Effect.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Upon the hearing, if it is proved that a sale of an estate described in section 5303.21 of the Revised Code would be for the benefit of the tenant in tail, or for life, and do no substantial injury to the heirs in tail, or others in expectancy, succession, reversion, or remainder, the court shall direct a sale to be made, the manner thereof and appoint some suitable person to make it. Such sale shall vest the estate sold in the purchaser, free from the entailment, limitation, or condition.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.24 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.24 | Sale May Be Had by Consent.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|All parties in interest may appear voluntarily, and consent in writing to a sale of an estate described in section 5303.21 of the Revised Code. Testamentary guardians, and guardians appointed by the probate court, in the place of their wards, also may assent to the sale.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.25 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.25 | Report and Confirmation of Sale and Deed.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A sale of an estate described in section 5303.21 of the Revised Code shall be reported to the court of common pleas authorizing such sale. On examination thereof, if it appears that the sale was fairly conducted and made, and that the price obtained is the reasonable value of the estate sold, the court shall confirm the sale and direct a deed of conveyance of the premises sold to be made to the purchaser on payment of the purchase money, or on securing its payment as the court approves.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.26 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.26 | Proceeds of Sale.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|All money arising from a sale of an estate described in section 5303.21 of the Revised Code, for purposes of descent, succession, reversion, or remainder, has the same character and is governed by the same principles as the estate sold, and passes according to the terms of the deed, will, or other instrument creating the estate.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.27 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.27 | Investing Money From Sale of Entailed Estates - Insurance.

Effective: October 20, 1987|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 287 - 117th General Assembly|Under the direction and approval of the court of common pleas, money arising from the sale of an estate described in section 5303.21 of the Revised Code and from the notes given for purchase money shall be invested in the bonds or other interest-bearing obligations of this state, any political subdivision of this state, or the United States, or in bonds or notes secured by a mortgage on unencumbered real estate located in this state, of double the value of the money secured. The buildings on such real estate shall be well insured against loss by fire and windstorm, and so kept by the mortgagor for the benefit of the mortgagee, until the debt is paid. The mortgagee shall so insure the buildings if the mortgagor fails to do so, and the expense of the insurance shall be repaid by the mortgagor and be a lien on the property concurrent with the mortgage; or the court may order the money reinvested in other real estate within this state under such restrictions as it prescribes, which investments shall be reported to the court and be subject to its approval and confirmation. For purposes of descent, succession, reversion, or remainder, the real estate in which the money is reinvested has the same character and is governed by the same principles as the estate sold, and passes according to the terms of the deed, will, or other instrument creating the estate sold. The court also may authorize the investment of any such funds in securities, interest-bearing obligations, or contract or deposit accounts which are legal for the investment of funds held by testamentary trustees as provided by sections 2109.37, 2109.371, and 2109.372 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.28 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.28 | Trustees for Entailed Estates.

Effective: September 9, 1957|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 33 - 102nd General Assembly|The court of common pleas shall appoint competent trustees to invest and manage the money referred to in section 5303.27 of the Revised Code. Such trustees, from time to time, must report to the court their proceedings and the condition of the fund. The court shall require of such trustees security for the faithful discharge of their duties, from time to time may require additional security, remove them for cause or reasonable apprehension thereof, accept the resignation of a trustee, and fill a vacancy by a new appointment.Where a trustee has been appointed and qualified in a court of probate all money arising from the sale of an estate described in section 5303.21 or 5303.211 of the Revised Code and from the notes given for the purchase money shall be ordered by the court authorizing such sale to be delivered to said trustee to be invested as provided by section 5303.27 of the Revised Code and the investment and management of such money shall thereafter be under the exclusive jurisdiction of the court of probate.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.29 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.29 | Consolidation of Actions or Trusts.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|Under the direction and approval of the court of common pleas, money arising from a sale of an estate described in section 5303.21 of the Revised Code, may be invested in bonds which are either a portion or the whole or an issue secured by a first mortgage or trust deed upon the real estate so sold, under such restrictions as the court prescribes, which investment must be reported to the court and be subject to its approval and confirmation. When parts of the same entailed estate have been or are sought to be sold in separate actions, the court may, before or after the sale in any action, or at any time during the continuance of the trusts, consolidate any two or more such actions or the trusts created thereunder. The court may make all orders and decrees necessary or proper to effect consolidation.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.30 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.30 | Income - Payment of Taxes and Expenses.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The net income accruing from a sale of an estate described in section 5303.21 of the Revised Code shall be paid to the person who would be entitled to the use or income of the estate were it unsold. Taxes and the expenses of the investment and management of the fund shall be paid by the person entitled to the income thereof.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.31 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.31 | Estates May Be Leased.

Effective: October 14, 1983|Latest Legislation:  Senate Bill 115 - 115th General Assembly|(A) Upon like proceedings as for the sale of an estate described in section 5303.21 of the Revised Code, but subject to division (B) of this section, the court of common pleas may direct that such estate be leased for a term of years, renewable or otherwise, with or without an option on the part of the lessee to purchase the estate leased, as appears most beneficial, and on such terms as appear just and equitable. The rents and profits shall be paid to the person who might otherwise be entitled to the use and occupancy of the estate or the income of it.(B) If an estate is held in trust and if the trustee is authorized by the trust instrument of lease real property, a court of common pleas shall not direct pursuant to division (A) of this section that the estate be leased unless the trustee consents to the lease.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.32 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.32 | Sale of Property Given for a Religious Use.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When real estate, except burial grounds or cemeteries, has been donated, bequeathed, or otherwise entrusted to, or purchased by any person or trustee, for public religious use, but not to or for the use of a specific or particular religious society or denomination, or when it has been donated, bequeathed, or entrusted to, or purchased by a particular religious society or denomination, and abandoned for such use, the court of common pleas of the county in which it is located, on good cause shown, upon the petition of a citizen of the vicinity, may make an order for the sale of such property, whether or not it has been built upon or otherwise improved, and make such order as to costs and the disposition of the proceeds of the sale to such religious or other public use as is just and equitable. The purchaser shall be invested with as full and complete a title thereto as the character of the original grant for such religious use permits.
Ohio Rev Code § 5303.33 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5303 | Actions Relating to Realty|Section 5303.33 | Necessary Parties to Proceeding.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|All persons who have vested, contingent, or reversionary interest in the real estate referred to in section 5303.32 of the Revised Code, and the trustees or other temporal officers of the religious society then using it, shall be made parties to such petition, and be notified of its filing, as in a civil action.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.01 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.01 | Assignment of Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the lands of a deceased person are not encumbered by mortgage, or by judgment obtained against such decedent during life, the heir, guardian of an heir, or other person having the next immediate estate of inheritance, may assign in writing to the surviving spouse, dower therein, particularly describing such estate, which, if approved in writing on the deed of assignment by the probate judge of the county, and also by the probate judge of the county appointing such guardian, and accepted by such spouse, in writing thereon, shall be a valid assignment.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.02 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.02 | Petition for Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|A surviving spouse may file a petition for dower in the court of common pleas, against the heir, or other person having the next immediate estate of inheritance or other estate or interest therein, setting forth the right thereto, and describing the tracts of land in which dower is claimed. On the hearing the court shall render such judgment as appears just and consistent with the rights of the parties interested.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.03 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.03 | Encumbrances Presented.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the rights of a lessee or lienor are shown by cross-petition filed before judgment, such rights and liens shall be regarded by the court of common pleas, and no inequality shall be allowed or injustice done to such lessee or lienor.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.04 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.04 | Land Situated in Different Counties.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the lands in which dower is claimed lie in several counties, the petition for dower may be filed by the surviving spouse in any county in which a part of the estate is situated. The court of common pleas of such county has complete jurisdiction, and may order the whole dower of such spouse to be assigned in one or more of such counties, and out of one or more of such tracts of land, if it may be done without prejudice to the rights of any person claiming title to or holding a lien on the land.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.05 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.05 | Death of Plaintiff Before Assignment.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When a plaintiff in an action to assign dower dies before the assignment, or before entry of the final judgment, the action may be revived in the name of the executor or administrator. The court of common pleas shall determine, if not before decided, whether the plaintiff was entitled to dower in such action. If the plaintiff was so entitled, the court shall adjudge in favor of such executor or administrator a sum equal to one third of the rental value of the real estate in which the plaintiff was entitled to dower, from the filing of the petition until death, after deducting one third of the necessary expenses. The sum so adjudged in favor of such executor or administrator is a lien upon such real estate, and its payment may be enforced by sale as upon execution.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.06 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.06 | Appointment of Commissioners to Assign Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When dower is adjudged, the court of common pleas shall appoint three judicious, disinterested men of the county in which the action to assign dower is pending, who are not of kin to either of the parties interested, to be commissioners. The court shall issue its order to the sheriff of that county, commanding him that by the oaths of the commissioners which may be administered by him, he cause such dower to be set off and assigned to the plaintiff in the manner set forth in the judgment.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.07 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.07 | Proceedings Upon Return of Assignment of Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The commissioners provided for in section 5305.06 of the Revised Code and the sheriff shall obey the order to assign dower, and return their proceedings thereon to the court of common pleas at such time as it appoints. If the court approves the assignment, it shall be entered on its records, and thenceforth the assignment is valid. Thereupon execution shall be issued, directing the sheriff to put the surviving spouse in full possession of the dower assigned.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.08 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.08 | Assignment of Dower When Estate Indivisible.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When an estate of which a surviving spouse is dowable is entire, and no division of it can be made by metes and bounds, dower shall be assigned as of a third part of the rents, issues, and profits thereof, to be computed and ascertained by the commissioners provided for in section 5305.06 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.09 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.09 | Timberlands or Other Unimproved Lands or Lots.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When an estate of which a surviving spouse is dowable, or in which such spouse owns a dower interest assigned to or vested in such spouse, consists in whole or in part of timberlands or other unimproved lands or lots, the commissioners, appointed as provided in section 5305.06 of the Revised Code, shall return to the court of common pleas a true appraisement of such lands in money, and also a true appraisement of their annual rental value. Upon the hearing of such report, if it appears to the court that the assignment of dower in such lands, either by metes and bounds, or as of the rents, issues, and profits, cannot be or has not been made so as to provide such surviving spouse with an income from the lands or lots so charged commensurate with their value, as fixed by such commissioners, the court shall determine the value of such dower in money, and make an order directing the sheriff to advertise and sell such lands, or so much thereof as is necessary, as upon execution. The sheriff shall not cause the lands to be appraised, but their value as returned by the commissioners shall be the appraised value, and they shall not be sold for less than two thirds of that value. Upon the confirmation of such sale, the court shall order the payment to the surviving spouse out of the money arising therefrom the value of the dower so determined by it.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.10 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.10 | Election by Owner of Lands to Pay Value of Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The person owning lands or lots mentioned in section 5305.09 of the Revised Code, at the time the order for the sale of such lands is made, may elect to pay to the surviving spouse the value of the dower. If such payment is made within ten days or such further reasonable time as the court of common pleas grants not exceeding ninety days from such election, the court shall make a decree divesting such spouse of any interest by way of dower in such lands. A surviving spouse owning a dower interest in timber lands or other unimproved lots or lands assigned to or vested in such spouse may maintain an action for relief in accordance with section 5305.09 of the Revised Code.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.11 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.11 | Dower During Pendency of Petition.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|When the commissioners provided for in section 5305.06 of the Revised Code have set off and assigned dower, they shall make a true appraisement of the yearly value, after deducting necessary expenses, of the real estate in which the surviving spouse is entitled to dower, estimating such value from the day of filing the petition for dower to the day of assigning dower, and return such appraisement and assignment. The court of common pleas shall adjudge the payment of one third of the whole sum so returned to the surviving spouse out of the real estate not covered by the dower, upon which judgment execution may issue. This section does not require execution to be issued against such of the defendants in dower as are minors. In such cases the dower shall operate as a lien upon the real estate, for their proportion of the judgment, until it is paid.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.12 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.12 | Exemptions in Estimating Yearly Value of Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In making the appraisement of the yearly value of the real estate provided for in section 5305.11 of the Revised Code, the commissioners must exclude all permanent or valuable improvements made thereon after the deceased consort of the surviving spouse ceased to be its owner.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.13 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.13 | Minor Heir Not to Be Prejudiced by Collusive Assignment of Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|During the minority of an heir, if dower is assigned to a surviving spouse not entitled thereto, or, if such dower was recovered by the default, fraud, or collusion of the guardian, such heir, on coming of age, may have an action against such spouse to recover the lands wrongfully awarded.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.14 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.14 | Costs.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|If the petition of a person claiming dower is contested, and the court of common pleas finds that such person is entitled to dower as claimed therein, the defendant so contesting shall pay all costs of the suit. If the petition is not contested, the plaintiff shall pay one third, and the legal owner of the real estate two thirds of the costs.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.15 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.15 | Surviving Spouse May Elect to Be Endowed Out of Proceeds of Sale.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|In actions for partition, when an estate cannot be divided, and is ordered to be sold, and in actions for the sale of real estate by executors, administrators, guardians, and assignees, acting under a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, and in all other actions and proceedings in which the court orders the sale of real estate to satisfy a judgment or decree, the surviving spouse who has a dower interest in such real estate, and is a party, may file an answer, waive the assignment of dower by metes and bounds, and ask to have the estate sold free of dower and to be allowed, in lieu thereof, such money out of the proceeds of sale as the court deems the just value of the dower interest therein.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.16 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.16 | Election by Answer Is a Release of Dower.

Effective: October 1, 1953|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 1 - 100th General Assembly|The answer of a surviving spouse under section 5305.15 of the Revised Code has the same effect, in all respects, as a deed of release to the purchaser of such estate of the dower interest therein of such spouse.
Ohio Rev Code § 5305.17 (2021)
2021 Ohio Revised Code|Title 53 | Real Property|Chapter 5305 | Dower|Section 5305.17 | Guardian May Elect for Surviving Spouse.

Effective: October 12, 2016|Latest Legislation:  House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly|As used in this section and sections 5305.18 to 5305.22 of the Revised Code, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to provide.The guardian of a surviving spouse who has been adjudged to be an incompetent person may appear and answer for such incompetent person in an action under section 5305.15 of the Revised Code, subject to the approval of the court in which it is pending. Such answer has the same effect as if such spouse answered personally. The guardian shall be liable to such spouse, or the heirs, for all damage or loss sustained by the guardian's fraud or collusion, notwithstanding the approval of the court.