Ohio Revised Code Chapter 3105 - Divorce, Alimony, Annulment, Dissolution Of Marriage

• Section 3105.01 - Divorce Causes.
  The court of common pleas may grant divorces for the following causes: (A) Either party had a husband or wife living at the time...
• Section 3105.011 - Jurisdiction Over Domestic Relations Matters.
  The court of common pleas including divisions of courts of domestic relations, has full equitable powers and jurisdiction appropriate to the determination of all...
• Section 3105.02 - Prohibited Acts.
  No person shall advertise, print, publish, distribute, or circulate a circular, pamphlet, card, handbill, advertisement, printed paper, book, newspaper, or notice, or cause such...
• Section 3105.03 - Venue.
  The plaintiff in actions for divorce and annulment shall have been a resident of the state at least six months immediately before filing the...
• Section 3105.04 - Residence Of Spouse.
  When a person files a petition for divorce or for legal separation, the residence of the spouse does not preclude the use of sections...
• Section 3105.05 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1971
• Section 3105.06 - Notice Of Pendency Of Action By Publication When Residence Unknown.
  If the residence of a defendant in an action for divorce, annulment, or legal separation is unknown, or if the defendant is not a...
• Section 3105.061, 3105.07 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1971
• Section 3105.08 - Converting Divorce Action Into Dissolution Action.
  At any time before a final judgment is entered in a divorce action, the spouses may convert the action for divorce into an action...
• Section 3105.09 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1971
• Section 3105.091 - Conciliation Procedures.
  (A) At any time after thirty days from the service of summons or first publication of notice in an action for divorce, annulment, or...
• Section 3105.10 - Judgment - Separation Agreement.
  (A) The court of common pleas shall hear any of the causes for divorce or annulment charged in the complaint and may, upon proof...
• Section 3105.11 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1971
• Section 3105.12 - Proof Of Marriage.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) of this section, proof of cohabitation and reputation of the marriage of a man and woman is...
• Section 3105.13 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-29-1982
• Section 3105.14, 3105.15 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1971
• Section 3105.16 - Restoring Name Before Marriage.
  When a divorce is granted the court of common pleas shall, if the person so desires, restore any name that the person had before...
• Section 3105.17 - Complaint For Divorce Or Legal Separation.
  (A) Either party to the marriage may file a complaint for divorce or for legal separation, and when filed the other may file a...
• Section 3105.171 - Equitable Division Of Marital And Separate Property - Distributive Award.
  (A) As used in this section: (1) "Distributive award" means any payment or payments, in real or personal property, that are payable in a...
• Section 3105.18 - Awarding Spousal Support - Modification Of Spousal Support.
  (A) As used in this section, "spousal support" means any payment or payments to be made to a spouse or former spouse, or to...
• Section 3105.19, 3105.20 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 07-01-1971
• Section 3105.21 - Order For Disposition, Care And Maintenance Of Children.
  (A) Upon satisfactory proof of the causes in the complaint for divorce, annulment, or legal separation, the court of common pleas shall make an...
• Section 3105.31 - Causes For Annulment.
  A marriage may be annulled for any of the following causes existing at the time of the marriage: (A) That the party in whose...
• Section 3105.32 - When Action For Annulment Must Be Commenced And By What Parties.
  An action to obtain a decree of nullity of a marriage must be commenced within the periods and by the parties as follows: (A)...
• Section 3105.33 - [Repealed].
  Effective Date: 06-29-1982
• Section 3105.34 - Restoring Name Before Marriage.
  If the court determines that a marriage is void or that a judgment of nullity ought to be granted, the court may in its...
• Section 3105.41 - Definitions For Sections To 3105.54.
  As used in sections 3105.41 to 3105.54 of the Revised Code: (A) "Collaborative family law communication" means any statement that occurs after the parties...
• Section 3105.42 - Laws Applicable To Collaborative Family Law Participation Agreement.
  (A) Sections 3105.41 to 3105.54 of the Revised Code apply to a collaborative family law participation agreement that meets the requirements of section 3105.43...
• Section 3105.43 - Collaborative Family Law Participation Agreements; Mandatory Inclusions.
  (A) A collaborative family law participation agreement must be in a record, be signed by the parties, and include all of the following: (1)...
• Section 3105.44 - Collaborative Family Law Process.
  (A) A collaborative family law process begins when the parties sign a collaborative family law participation agreement. (B) A collaborative family law process is...
• Section 3105.45 - Representation By Collaborative Family Lawyer.
  (A) Except as otherwise provided in division (C) of this section, a collaborative family lawyer may not appear before a court to represent a...
• Section 3105.46 - Informal Disclosure Of Information.
  During the collaborative family law process, at the request of another party, a party shall make timely, full, candid, and informal disclosure of information...
• Section 3105.47 - Applicability Of Professional Responsibility Provisions.
  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...
• Section 3105.48 - Confidentiality Of Communications.
  A collaborative family law communication is confidential to the extent agreed by the parties in a signed record or as provided by the law...
• Section 3105.49 - Privileged Communications.
  (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,...
• Section 3105.50 - Waiver Of Privileges.
  (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...
• Section 3105.51 - Communications Not Subject To Privilege.
  (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:...
• Section 3105.52 - Effect Of Finding Of Intent To Make An Agreement.
  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...
• Section 3105.53 - Electronic Signatures.
  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,...
• Section 3105.54 - Short Title.
  Sections 3105.41 to 3105.54 of the Revised Code may be cited as the "Ohio collaborative family law act." Added by 129th General AssemblyFile No.185,...
• Section 3105.61 - Jurisdiction.
  The court of common pleas may grant a dissolution of marriage. Effective Date: 09-23-1974
• Section 3105.62 - Residency Requirement.
  One of the spouses in an action for dissolution of marriage shall have been a resident of the state for at least six months...
• Section 3105.63 - Separation Agreement Provisions.
  (A) (1) A petition for dissolution of marriage shall be signed by both spouses and shall have attached and incorporated a separation agreement agreed...
• Section 3105.64 - Time Of Court Appearance After Filing Petition.
  (A) Except as provided in division (B) or (C) of this section, not less than thirty nor more than ninety days after the filing...
• Section 3105.65 - Power Of Court.
  (A) If, at the time of the hearing, either spouse is not satisfied with the separation agreement or does not wish a dissolution of...
• Section 3105.71 - Prohibiting Cancellation Of Health Insurance During Pendency Prior To Court Determination Of Responsibility.
  (A) If a party to an action for divorce, annulment, dissolution of marriage, or legal separation was the named insured or subscriber under, or...
• Section 3105.72 - Social Security Numbers Included In Records.
  The record of any action instituted under this chapter shall include the social security numbers of both parties to the action. Effective Date: 01-01-1998
• Section 3105.73 - Award Of Attorney's Fees And Litigation Expenses - Factors Considered - Payment.
  (A) In an action for divorce, dissolution, legal separation, or annulment of marriage or an appeal of that action, a court may award all...
• Section 3105.80 - Property Division Orders Involving Public Retirement Program Definitions.
  As used in this section and sections 3105.81 to 3105.90 of the Revised Code: (A) "Alternate payee" means a party in an action for...
• Section 3105.81 - Order For Equitable Division Of Property To Require Compliance With Provisions.
  A court that issues an order under section 3105.171 or 3105.65 of the Revised Code that provides for a division of property that includes...
• Section 3105.82 - Requirements Of Order.
  An order described in section 3105.81 of the Revised Code shall meet all of the following requirements: (A) Be on the form created under...
• Section 3105.821 - Monthly Benefit.
  The monthly benefit used under division (D)(2) of section 3105.82 of the Revised Code to determine the amount to be paid an alternate payee...
• Section 3105.83 - Commencing Payments.
  Payments under an order described in section 3105.81 of the Revised Code shall commence as provided under section 145.571, 742.462, 3305.21, 3307.371, 3309.671, or...
• Section 3105.84 - Defraying Administrative Costs.
  An order described in section 3105.81 of the Revised Code shall authorize the board of the public retirement program that is or will be...
• Section 3105.85 - Limit On Withholding.
  (A) The total of the amounts described in division (D) of section 3105.82 and section 3105.84 of the Revised Code shall not exceed fifty...
• Section 3105.86 - Terminating Alternate Payee Rights.
  An alternate payee's rights under an order described in section 3105.81 of the Revised Code shall terminate on the earlier of the following: (A)...
• Section 3105.87 - Disclosing Participant's Personal History Record.
  The court may order a public retirement program or the Ohio public employees deferred compensation program to provide information from a participant's personal history...
• Section 3105.88 - Transmitting Order To Retirement Program.
  The clerk of courts shall transmit a certified copy of an order described in section 3105.81 of the Revised Code to each public retirement...
• Section 3105.89 - Court Retains Jurisdiction - Modification Of Orders.
  Notwithstanding division (I) of section 3105.171 of the Revised Code: (A) The court shall retain jurisdiction to modify, supervise, or enforce the implementation of...
• Section 3105.90 - Form For Court Orders.
  The state retirement systems, the Ohio state bar association, and the Ohio domestic relations judges association shall jointly create a form to be used...
• Section 3105.99 - Penalty.
  (A) Whoever violates section 3105.02 of the Revised Code shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than five hundred dollars or imprisoned...

Last modified: October 10, 2016