Ohio Revised Code Chapter 2111 - Guardians; Conservatorships

• Section 2111.01 - Guardian And Conservatorship Definitions.
  As used in Chapters 2101. to 2131. of the Revised Code: (A) "Guardian," other than a guardian under sections 5905.01 to 5905.19 of the...
• Section 2111.02 - Appointment Of Guardian - Limited, Interim, Emergency, Or Standby Guardian - Nomination.
  (A) If found necessary, a probate court on its own motion or on application by any interested party shall appoint, subject to divisions (C)...
• Section 2111.021 - Physically Infirm Adult May Petition For Conservatorship.
  A competent adult who is physically infirm may petition the probate court of the county in which the petitioner resides, to place, for a...
• Section 2111.022 - Emergency Order To Freeze Assets Of Missing Person.
  (A) A probate court, on its own motion or on application of an interested party, may issue an emergency ex parte order freezing the...
• Section 2111.03 - Application For Appointment As Guardian.
  A person applying for appointment as a guardian, including, but not limited to, as a limited guardian, pursuant to section 2111.02 of the Revised...
• Section 2111.031 - Appointing Physicians And Other Persons To Determine Need For Guardianship.
  In connection with an application for the appointment of a guardian for an alleged incompetent, the court may appoint physicians and other qualified persons...
• Section 2111.04 - Notice Of Appointment.
  (A) Except for an interim or emergency guardian appointed under division (B)(2) or (3) of section 2111.02 of the Revised Code, no guardian of...
• Section 2111.041 - Investigating Circumstances Of Alleged Incompetent.
  (A) At the time of the service of notice upon an alleged incompetent, as required by division (A)(2)(a) of section 2111.04 of the Revised...
• Section 2111.042 - Investigating And Report Regarding Guardianship Of Minor.
  (A) In connection with the appointment of a guardian for a minor or the functioning of the guardianship of a minor, the court may...
• Section 2111.05 - Termination Of Guardianship Based On Value Of Ward's Estate.
  When the whole estate of a ward does not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars in value, the guardian may apply to the probate court for...
• Section 2111.06 - Guardian Of The Person.
  If the powers of the person appointed as guardian of a minor or incompetent are not limited by the order of appointment, the person...
• Section 2111.07 - Powers Of Guardian Of Person And Estate.
  Each person appointed guardian of the person and estate of a minor shall have the custody of the ward, the obligation to provide for...
• Section 2111.08 - Parents Are Natural Guardians.
  The wife and husband are the joint natural guardians of their minor children and are equally charged with their care, nurture, welfare, and education...
• Section 2111.09 - Administrator Or Executor Ineligible To Be Appointed Guardian.
  Unless expressly appointed or designated to act both as guardian and executor by a will in writing, no person who is or has been...
• Section 2111.091 - Restrictions On Attorney Representing Guardian.
  No attorney who represents any other person and who is appointed as a guardian under this chapter or under any other provision of the...
• Section 2111.10 - Corporation As Guardian.
  As used in this section, "mentally retarded person" and "developmentally disabled person" have the same meanings as in section 5123.01 of the Revised Code....
• Section 2111.11 - Spouse May Be Appointed Guardian.
  When a guardian is appointed for a person having a spouse, the court may appoint such spouse as the guardian, if it is made...
• Section 2111.12 - Guardian Of Minor.
  (A) A minor over the age of fourteen years may select a guardian who shall be appointed if a suitable person. If a minor...
• Section 2111.121 - Nomination Of Guardian.
  (A) A person may nominate in a writing, as described in this division, another person to be the guardian of the nominator's person, estate,...
• Section 2111.13 - Duties Of Guardian Of Person.
  (A) When a guardian is appointed to have the custody and maintenance of a ward, and to have charge of the education of the...
• Section 2111.131 - Court Order For Payments Of No More Than $5,000 Due To Minor.
  (A) The probate court may enter an order that authorizes a person under a duty to pay or deliver money or personal property to...
• Section 2111.14 - Duties Of Guardian Of Estate.
  (A) In addition to a guardian's other duties, every guardian appointed to take care of the estate of a ward shall have the following...
• Section 2111.141 - Inventory To Be Supported By Evidence.
  The court, by order or rule, may require that any inventory filed by a guardian pursuant to section 2111.14 of the Revised Code be...
• Section 2111.15 - Duties Of Guardian Of Person And Estate.
  When a person is appointed to have custody of the person and to take charge of the estate of a ward, such person shall...
• Section 2111.151 - Liability Of Guardian Or Conservator As To Contracts And Debts.
  (A) If a guardian of the estate, a guardian of the person and estate, a guardian of the person, or a conservator enters into...
• Section 2111.16 - Certain Vouchers Not Allowed As Credits.
  Unless previously authorized by the court, no voucher that is signed or purports to be signed by the ward shall be received from or...
• Section 2111.17 - Suits By Guardians.
  A guardian may sue in the guardian's own name, describing the guardian as suing on behalf of the ward . When the guardianship ceases,...
• Section 2111.18 - Claim For Injury To Ward Or Damage To Property - Settlement.
  If personal injury, damage to tangible or intangible property, or damage or loss on account of personal injury or damage to tangible or intangible...
• Section 2111.181 - Settlement Of Claim Of Emancipated Minor.
  If personal injury, damage to tangible or intangible property, or damage or loss on account of personal injury or damage to tangible or intangible...
• Section 2111.19 - Completion Of Real Property Contracts.
  A guardian, whether appointed by a court in this state or elsewhere, may complete the contracts of the ward for the purchase or sale...
• Section 2111.20 - Sale Of Personal Estate.
  The guardian of the person and estate, or of the estate only, may sell all or any part of the personal property of the...
• Section 2111.21 - Sale, Compromise, Adjustment, Or Mortgage Of Dower.
  The guardian of a ward who has or is claimed to have a right of dower, or a contingent right to it, in real...
• Section 2111.22 - Release Of Ward's Tax Title By Guardian.
  When a ward has title to real property by tax title only, the guardian, by deed of release and quitclaim, may convey the ward's...
• Section 2111.23 - Guardian Ad Litem.
  Whenever a ward, for whom a guardian of the estate or of the person and estate has been appointed, is interested in any suit...
• Section 2111.24 - Insolvency Of Ward.
  If the probate court finds that the estate of a ward is insolvent or will probably be insolvent, such estate shall be settled by...
• Section 2111.25 - Lease For Not More Than Three Years.
  A guardian of the person and estate or of the estate only, without application to the probate court, may lease the possession or use...
• Section 2111.26 - Lease For Term Of Years.
  A guardian may lease the possession and use of the real property of the guardian's ward or any part of it for a term...
• Section 2111.27 - Petition.
  A guardian's application for authority to lease real property of a ward shall be by petition setting forth the following: (A) The legal capacity...
• Section 2111.28 - Parties.
  In an application for authority to lease real property of a ward under sections 2111.26 and 2111.27 of the Revised Code, the guardian may...
• Section 2111.29 - Parties And Proceedings.
  When a guardian files an application for authority to lease the real property of a ward, the same rules shall apply as to the...
• Section 2111.30 - Duties Of Appraisers.
  When a guardian applies for authority to lease the real property of a ward, the duties of the appraisers shall be the same as...
• Section 2111.31 - Hearing And Order.
  If the report of the appraisers under section 2111.30 of the Revised Code is favorable to the lease and on the final hearing the...
• Section 2111.32 - Royalty.
  If the lease made pursuant to court order, under section 2111.31 of the Revised Code is for the mining or removal of mineral or...
• Section 2111.33 - Guardian May Improve Real Property - Petition.
  (A) A guardian may use the moneys and personal property of the guardian's ward to improve the ward's real property. The guardian shall file...
• Section 2111.34 - Proceedings.
  Upon the filing of the petition described in section 2111.33 of the Revised Code, similar proceedings shall be had as to pleadings and proof...
• Section 2111.35 - Amount To Be Used For Improvement.
  On the final hearing of a guardian's proceeding to improve the real property of the guardian's ward, if the prayer of the petition is...
• Section 2111.36 - Guardian's Report.
  A guardian shall distinctly report to the probate court the amount of money and personal property expended in making an improvement to the ward's...
• Section 2111.37 - Guardian For Nonresident.
  If a nonresident minor, incompetent, or person confined in a state, charitable, or correctional institution has real property or rights, credits, moneys, or other...
• Section 2111.38 - Bond And Duties.
  The resident guardian of a nonresident ward shall give bond and be bound and controlled by all the statutes of this state as though...
• Section 2111.39 - Foreign Guardian May Collect Money.
  When a foreign legal representative of a nonresident ward applies to have all or any of the moneys or property in the possession or...
• Section 2111.40 - When Nonresident Ward Becomes A Resident.
  If a nonresident ward for whom a resident guardian was appointed has become a resident since the appointment and a guardian has been appointed...
• Section 2111.41 - When Ward Removes From The State And Has A Foreign Guardian.
  If a ward for whom a guardian has been appointed in this state removes to another state or territory, and a guardian of the...
• Section 2111.42 - Foreign Guardians May Receive Property.
  If a guardian is appointed by a court of another state or territory or by a foreign country for a nonresident ward, and the...
• Section 2111.43 - Foreign Wards And Guardians.
  Wards living outside this state and owning lands within it are entitled to the benefit of Chapters 2101. to 2131., inclusive, of the Revised...
• Section 2111.44 - Sale Of Real Property Of Foreign Wards.
  Applications for the sale of real property by guardians of wards who live out of this state shall be made in the county in...
• Section 2111.45 - Marriage Of Ward.
  The marriage of a ward shall terminate the guardianship as to the person, but not as to the estate, of the ward. Effective Date:
• Section 2111.46 - Guardianship Of Minors.
  When a guardian has been appointed for a minor before the minor is over fourteen years of age, the guardian's power shall continue until...
• Section 2111.47 - Wards Other Than Minors.
  Upon reasonable notice to the guardian, to the ward, and to the person on whose application the appointment was made, and upon satisfactory proof...
• Section 2111.471 - Transfer Of Court Having Jurisdiction.
  If the ward for whom a guardian has been appointed removes to another county within this state and acquires a new residence or legal...
• Section 2111.48 - Certain Acts Validated.
  All sales, leases, encumbrances, or liens made or created on any real property located in this state by guardians for persons who are incompetent...
• Section 2111.49 - Report Of Guardian Of Incompetent.
  (A) (1) Subject to division (A)(3) of this section, the guardian of an incompetent person shall file a guardian's report with the court two...
• Section 2111.50 - Probate Court Is Superior Guardian Of Wards.
  (A) (1) At all times, the probate court is the superior guardian of wards who are subject to its jurisdiction, and all guardians who...
• Section 2111.51 - County Indigent Guardianship Fund.
  Each county shall establish in the county treasury an indigent guardianship fund. All revenue that the general assembly appropriates to the indigent guardianship fund...

Last modified: October 10, 2016