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.
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 […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly In the determination of intestate succession, next of kin shall be determined by degrees of relationship computed by the rules of civil law.
Effective: May 16, 2002 Latest Legislation: House Bill 242 – 124th General Assembly Permanent leasehold estates, renewable forever, are subject to Chapter 2105. of the Revised Code.
Effective: January 13, 2012 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 – 129th General Assembly When a person dies, property that the person gave during the person’s lifetime to an heir shall be treated as an advancement against the heir’s share of the estate only if declared in a contemporaneous writing by the decedent or acknowledged in […]
Effective: January 1, 1976 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 145 – 111th General Assembly Any debt owed to a decedent shall not be charged against the intestate share of any person except the debtor. If the debtor fails to survive decedent, the debt shall not be taken into account in computing the intestate share of the […]
Effective: March 23, 2015 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 207 – 130th General Assembly When a person dies intestate having title or right to any personal property, or to any real property or inheritance, in this state, the personal property shall be distributed, and the real property or inheritance shall descend and pass in parcenary, except […]
Effective: March 22, 2001 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 152 – 123rd General Assembly Except any real property that a surviving spouse elects to receive under section 2106.10 of the Revised Code, the title to real property in an intestate estate shall descend and pass in parcenary to those persons entitled to it under division (B), […]
Effective: March 23, 2015 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 207 – 130th General Assembly As used in this section, “relative” includes a parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, stepparent, child, grandchild, aunt, uncle, cousin, sibling, and half sibling. The parent, or a relative of the parent, of a child who was conceived as the result of the parent’s violation […]
Effective: May 16, 2002 Latest Legislation: House Bill 242 – 124th General Assembly When, under Chapter 2105. of the Revised Code, personal property escheats to the state, the prosecuting attorney of the county in which letters of administration are granted upon such estate shall collect and pay it over to the county treasurer. Such estate […]
Effective: May 16, 2002 Latest Legislation: House Bill 242 – 124th General Assembly Chapter 2105. of the Revised Code applies to any escheating estate of which possession has not been taken, or which has not been collected by the proper officers of the state or those acting under their authority. Right or claim of the […]
Effective: September 29, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 153 – 129th General Assembly (A) The county auditor, unless the auditor acts pursuant to division (C) of this section, shall take possession of real property escheated to the state that is located in the auditor’s county and outside the incorporated area of a city. The auditor […]
Effective: January 13, 2012 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 – 129th General Assembly (A) As used in this section: (1) “Abandoned” means that a parent of a minor failed without justifiable cause to communicate with the minor, care for the minor, and provide for the minor’s maintenance or support as required by law or judicial […]
Effective: January 13, 2012 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 – 129th General Assembly When a person dies intestate leaving children and none of the children of the intestate have died leaving children or their lineal descendants, the estate shall descend to the children of the intestate living at the time of the intestate’s death in […]
Effective: October 1, 1953 Latest Legislation: House Bill 1 – 100th General Assembly When all the descendants of an intestate, in a direct line of descent, are on an equal degree of consanguinity to the intestate, the estate shall pass to such persons in equal parts, however remote from the intestate such equal and common […]
Effective: January 13, 2012 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 – 129th General Assembly If some of the children of an intestate are living and others are dead, the estate shall descend to the children who are living and to the lineal descendants of the children who are dead, so that each child who is living […]
Effective: April 6, 2017 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 232, House Bill 432 – 131st General Assembly N o descendant of an intestate shall inherit under this chapter unless s urviving the intestate for at least one hundred twenty hours, or unless born within three hundred days after the death of the intestate and living for […]
Effective: January 13, 2012 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 – 129th General Assembly A person of sound mind and memory may appear before the probate judge of the person’s county and in the presence of the judge and two disinterested persons of that person’s acquaintance, file a written declaration declaring that, as the person’s free […]
Effective: January 13, 2012 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 – 129th General Assembly No person who is capable of inheriting shall be deprived of the inheritance by reason of any of the person’s ancestors having been aliens. Aliens may hold, possess, and enjoy real property within this state, either by descent, devise, gift, or purchase, […]
Effective: January 1, 1976 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 145 – 111th General Assembly Children born out of wedlock shall be capable of inheriting or transmitting inheritance from and to their mother, and from and to those from whom she may inherit, or to whom she may transmit inheritance, as if born in lawful wedlock.
