Effective: January 1, 1974 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 1 – 110th General Assembly All persons of the age of eighteen years or more, who are under no legal disability, are capable of contracting and are of full age for all purposes.
Effective: April 8, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 511 – 132nd General Assembly A person granted consent to marry under section 3101.04 of the Revised Code has the capacity of a person of the age of eighteen years or more, as described in section 3109.01 of the Revised Code, except that the person is not […]
Effective: January 1, 1974 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 1 – 110th General Assembly Any person who is eligible for a loan under the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act of 1944, any amendments thereto or re-enactment thereof, the Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act of 1952, any amendments thereto or re-enactment thereof, the Act of September 2, 1958, Public Law […]
Effective: April 11, 1991 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 3 – 118th General Assembly When husband and wife are living separate and apart from each other, or are divorced, and the question as to the parental rights and responsibilities for the care of their children and the place of residence and legal custodian of their children […]
Effective: June 9, 2011 Latest Legislation: House Bill 121 – 129th General Assembly (A) In any divorce, legal separation, or annulment proceeding and in any proceeding pertaining to the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of a child, upon hearing the testimony of either or both parents and considering any mediation report […]
Effective: June 30, 2007 Latest Legislation: House Bill 119 – 127th General Assembly (A) Parties to any custody decree issued pursuant to section 3109.04 of the Revised Code prior to April 11, 1991, may file a motion with the court that issued the decree requesting the issuance of a shared parenting decree in accordance with […]
Effective: March 23, 2015 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 207 – 130th General Assembly (A) An unmarried female who gives birth to a child is the sole residential parent and legal custodian of the child until a court of competent jurisdiction issues an order designating another person as the residential parent and legal custodian. A court […]
Effective: May 17, 2006 Latest Legislation: House Bill 136 – 126th General Assembly In any proceeding pertaining to the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of a child, when requested in the complaint, answer, or counterclaim, or by motion served with the pleading, upon satisfactory proof by affidavit duly filed with the […]
Effective: March 22, 2001 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 180 – 123rd General Assembly (A)(1) In a divorce, dissolution of marriage, legal separation, or child support proceeding, the court may order either or both parents to support or help support their children, without regard to marital misconduct. In determining the amount reasonable or necessary for child […]
Effective: January 1, 2014 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 316 – 129th General Assembly (A) If a divorce, dissolution, legal separation, or annulment proceeding involves a child and if the court has not issued a shared parenting decree, the court shall consider any mediation report filed pursuant to section 3109.052 of the Revised Code and, in […]
Effective: March 22, 2001 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 180 – 123rd General Assembly (A) If a proceeding for divorce, dissolution, legal separation, annulment, or the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of a child involves one or more children, if the parents of the children do not agree upon an appropriate allocation […]
Effective: October 5, 2000 Latest Legislation: House Bill 537 – 123rd General Assembly In any divorce, legal separation, or annulment proceeding and in any proceeding pertaining to the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of a child, the court may require, by rule or otherwise, that the parents attend classes on parenting […]
Effective: March 22, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 595 – 132nd General Assembly Except as provided in division (K) of section 2301.03 of the Revised Code, any court, other than a juvenile court, that has jurisdiction in any case respecting the allocation of parental rights and responsibilities for the care of a child under eighteen […]
Effective: October 17, 2019 Latest Legislation: House Bill 166 – 133rd General Assembly Nothing in sections 2151.233 to 2151.236 and 2301.03 of the Revised Code shall be construed to prevent a domestic relations court from certifying a case to a juvenile court under division (D)(2) of section 3109.04 of the Revised Code or section 3109.06 […]
Effective: March 17, 1987 Latest Legislation: House Bill 412 – 116th General Assembly An appeal to the court of appeals may be had pursuant to the Rules of Appellate Procedure and, to the extent not in conflict with those rules, Chapter 2505. of the Revised Code.
Effective: October 29, 1996 Latest Legislation: House Bill 601 – 121st General Assembly (A) As used in this section, “parent” means one of the following: (1) Both parents unless division (A)(2) or (3) of this section applies; (2) The parent designated the residential parent and legal custodian pursuant to an order issued under section 3109.04 […]
Effective: October 29, 1996 Latest Legislation: House Bill 601 – 121st General Assembly As used in this section, “parent” has the same meaning as in section 3109.09 of the Revised Code. Any person is entitled to maintain an action to recover compensatory damages in a civil action, in an amount not to exceed ten thousand […]
Effective: March 22, 2001 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 180 – 123rd General Assembly If either the father or mother of an unmarried minor child is deceased, the court of common pleas of the county in which the minor child resides may grant the parents and other relatives of the deceased father or mother reasonable companionship […]
Effective: March 22, 2001 Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 180 – 123rd General Assembly (A) If a child is born to an unmarried woman, the parents of the woman and any relative of the woman may file a complaint requesting the court of common pleas of the county in which the child resides to grant them […]
Effective: September 29, 2015 Latest Legislation: House Bill 64 – 131st General Assembly As used in sections 3109.13 to 3109.179 of the Revised Code: (A) “Child abuse and child neglect prevention programs” means programs that use primary and secondary prevention strategies that are conducted at the local level and activities and projects of statewide significance […]
