Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly (A) A collaborative family law participation agreement must be in a record, be signed by the parties, and include all of the following: (1) A statement of the parties’ intent to resolve a matter through a collaborative family law process under sections […]
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly (A) A collaborative family law process begins when the parties sign a collaborative family law participation agreement. (B) A collaborative family law process is concluded by any of the following: (1) A negotiated resolution of the matter as evidenced by a signed […]
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a collaborative family lawyer may not appear before a court to represent a party in a proceeding related to the collaborative family law matter. A collaborative family lawyer representing a party […]
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly During the collaborative family law process, at the request of another party, a party shall make timely, full, candid, and informal disclosure of information related to the collaborative matter without formal discovery and shall update promptly information that has materially changed. Parties […]
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly Sections 3105.41 to 3105.54 of the Revised Code do not affect the professional responsibility obligations and standards applicable to a lawyer or other licensed professional or the statutory obligation of a person to report abuse or neglect of a child or adult.
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly A collaborative family law communication is confidential to the extent agreed by the parties in a signed record or as provided by the law of this state.
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly (A) Subject to sections 3105.50 and 3105.51 of the Revised Code, a collaborative family law communication is privileged under division (B) of this section, is not subject to discovery, and is not admissible in evidence. (B) In a proceeding, the following privileges […]
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly (A) A privilege under section 3105.49 of the Revised Code may be waived in a record or orally during a proceeding if it is expressly waived by all parties and, in the case of the privilege of a nonparty participant, it is […]
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly (A) There is no privilege under section 3105.49 of the Revised Code for a collaborative family law communication that is any of the following: (1) Available to the public under section 149.43 of the Revised Code or made during a session of […]
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly Even though a collaborative family law participation agreement fails to meet the requirements of section 3105.43 of the Revised Code, a court may find that the parties intended to enter into a collaborative family law participation agreement if the parties signed a […]
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly Sections 3105.41 to 3105.54 of the Revised Code modify, limit, and supersede the “Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act,” 114 Stat. 464, 15 U.S.C. 7001, et seq., but do not modify, limit, or supersede section 101(c) of that act, 15 […]
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly Sections 3105.41 to 3105.54 of the Revised Code may be cited as the “Ohio collaborative family law act.”
Effective: September 23, 1974 Latest Legislation: House Bill 233 – 110th General Assembly The court of common pleas may grant a dissolution of marriage.
Effective: June 13, 1990 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 25 – 118th General Assembly One of the spouses in an action for dissolution of marriage shall have been a resident of the state for at least six months immediately before filing the petition. Actions for dissolution of marriage shall be brought in the proper county for […]
Effective: September 8, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 238 – 128th General Assembly (A)(1) A petition for dissolution of marriage shall be signed by both spouses and shall have attached and incorporated a separation agreement agreed to by both spouses. The separation agreement shall provide for a division of all property; spousal support; if there […]
Effective: March 22, 2013 Latest Legislation: House Bill 461 – 129th General Assembly (A) Except as provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, not less than thirty nor more than ninety days after the filing of a petition for dissolution of marriage, both spouses shall appear before the court, and each spouse shall […]
Effective: September 8, 2010 Latest Legislation: House Bill 238 – 128th General Assembly (A) If, at the time of the hearing, either spouse is not satisfied with the separation agreement or does not wish a dissolution of the marriage and if neither spouse files a motion pursuant to division (C) of this section to convert […]
Effective: June 4, 1997 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 67 – 122nd General Assembly (A) If a party to an action for divorce, annulment, dissolution of marriage, or legal separation was the named insured or subscriber under, or the policyholder, certificate holder, or contract holder of, a policy, contract, or plan of health insurance that provided […]
Effective: January 1, 1998 Latest Legislation: House Bill 352 – 122nd General Assembly The record of any action instituted under this chapter shall include the social security numbers of both parties to the action. Last updated January 20, 2023 at 9:50 AM
Effective: April 27, 2005 Latest Legislation: House Bill 36 – 125th General Assembly (A) In an action for divorce, dissolution, legal separation, or annulment of marriage or an appeal of that action, a court may award all or part of reasonable attorney’s fees and litigation expenses to either party if the court finds the award […]
