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Ohio Revised Code - Title XXI Courts - Probate - Juvenile - Chapter 2105: Descent and Distribution

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• 2105.01 No distinction between ancestral and nonancestral or real and personal property.
  In intestate succession, there shall be no difference between ancestral and nonancestral property or between real and personal property. Effective Date: 10-01-1953
• 2105.02 Construction of living and died.
  When, in Chapter 2105. of the Revised Code, a person is described as living, it means that the person was living at the time of...
• 2105.03 Determination of next of kin.
  In the determination of intestate succession, next of kin shall be determined by degrees of relationship computed by the rules of civil law. Effective Date:
• 2105.04 Permanent leases to descend same as estates in fee.
  Permanent leasehold estates, renewable forever, are subject to Chapter 2105. of the Revised Code. Effective Date: 05-16-2002
• 2105.05 Repealed.
  Effective Date: 05-26-1976
• 2105.051 Advancements - time of valuation.
  When a person dies, property that he gave during his lifetime to an heir shall be treated as an advancement against the heir's share of...
• 2105.052 Debts owed to decedent.
  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...
• 2105.06 Statute of descent and distribution.
  When a person dies intestate having title or right to any personal property, or to any real estate or inheritance, in this state, the personal...
• 2105.061 Real property subject to monetary charge of surviving spouse.
  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...
• 2105.07 Escheat of personal estate.
  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...
• 2105.08 Application of provisions relating to escheating estates.
  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...
• 2105.09 Disposition of escheated lands.
  (A) The county auditor, unless he acts pursuant to division (C) of this section, shall take possession of real property escheated to the state that...
• 2105.10 Parent abandoning minor child barred from intestate succession.
  (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...
• 2105.11 Estate to descend equally to children of intestate.
  When a person dies intestate leaving children and none of the children of such intestate have died leaving children or their lineal descendants, such estate...
• 2105.12 Descent when all descendants of equal degree of consanguinity.
  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...
• 2105.13 Descent when children and heirs of deceased children are living.
  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...
• 2105.14 Posthumous child to inherit.
  Descendants of an intestate begotten before his death, but born thereafter, in all cases will inherit as if born in the lifetime of the intestate...
• 2105.15 Designation of heir at law.
  A person of sound mind and memory may appear before the probate judge of his county and in the presence of such judge and two...
• 2105.16 Heirs of aliens may inherit - aliens may hold lands.
  No person who is capable of inheriting shall be deprived of the inheritance by reason of any of his ancestors having been aliens. Aliens may...
• 2105.17 Children born out of wedlock.
  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...
• 2105.18 Amended and Renumbered RC 5101.314.
  Effective Date: 01-01-1998
• 2105.19 Persons prohibited from benefiting by the death of another.
  (A) Except as provided in division (C) of this section, no person who is convicted of, pleads guilty to, or is found not guilty by...
• 2105.20 Waste by tenant for life.
  A tenant for life in real property who commits or suffers waste thereto shall forfeit that part of the property, to which such waste is...
• 2105.21 Repealed.
  Effective Date: 05-16-2002
• 2105.25 Filing declaration alleging fatherhood of adult child.
  (A) As used in this section and section 2105.26 of the Revised Code: (1) "Adult child" means a person born in this state who is...
• 2105.26 Order declaring fatherhood of adult child.
  (A) If the probate court determines the following, it shall issue the order requested under section 2105.25 of the Revised Code declaring the man alleging...
• 2105.31 Uniform simultaneous death act definitions.
  As used in sections 2105.31 to 2105.39 of the Revised Code: (A) "Co-owners with right of survivorship" includes joint tenants, tenants by the entireties, and...
• 2105.32 Person is deemed to have predeceased another person.
  (A) Except as provided in section 2105.36 of the Revised Code, a person who is not established by clear and convincing evidence to have survived...
• 2105.33 Person deemed to have predeceased specified event.
  Except as provided in section 2105.36 of the Revised Code, a person who is not established by clear and convincing evidence to have survived a...
• 2105.34 Co-owners with right of survivorship.
  Except as provided in section 2105.36 of the Revised Code: (A) If it is not established by clear and convincing evidence that one of two...
• 2105.35 Determination and evidence of death.
  (A)(1) A person is dead if the person has been determined to be dead pursuant to standards established under section 2108.40 of the Revised Code....
• 2105.36 Provisions of governing instrument.
  A person who is not established by clear and convincing evidence to have survived another specified person by one hundred twenty hours shall not be...
• 2105.37 Payor or third party not liable.
  (A) A payor or other third party is not liable for any of the following: (1) Making a payment, transferring an item of real or...
• 2105.38 Effect on bona fide purchaser or transferee for value.
  (A) A person who purchases real or personal property that would otherwise be subject to sections 2105.31 to 2105.39 of the Revised Code for value...
• 2105.39 Retroactivity.
  (A) Sections 2105.31 to 2105.39 of the Revised Code do not impair any act done in any proceeding, or any right that accrued, before May...

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