Ohio Revised Code Chapter 5307 - Partition

• Section 5307.01 - Persons Compelled To Partition.
  Tenants in common, survivorship tenants, and coparceners, of any estate in lands, tenements, or hereditaments within the state, may be compelled to make or...
• Section 5307.02 - Place Of Partition Proceedings.
  When the estate is situated in one county, the proceedings for partition shall be had in that county. When the estate is situated in...
• Section 5307.03 - Filing Of Petition - Contents.
  A person entitled to partition of an estate may file his petition therefor in the court of common pleas, setting forth the nature of...
• Section 5307.04 - Order Of Partition.
  If the court of common pleas finds that the plaintiff in an action for partition has a legal right to any part of the...
• Section 5307.041 - Share Of Survivorship Tenants.
  If partition is granted among survivorship tenants, the court shall determine the share to which each is entitled as if the tenants were tenants...
• Section 5307.05 - Writ Of Partition.
  A writ of partition issued under section 5307.04 of the Revised Code may be directed to the sheriff of any of the counties in...
• Section 5307.06 - Duty Of Commissioners In Making Partition.
  In making a partition, the commissioner or commissioners shall view and examine the estate and, on their oaths and having due regard to the...
• Section 5307.07 - Partition Of Multiple Tracts.
  When partition of more than one tract is demanded, the commissioner or commissioners shall set off to each plaintiff or interested party the plaintiff's...
• Section 5307.08 - Amicable Partition.
  Before a writ of partition is issued under section 5307.04 of the Revised Code, the person of whom partition is demanded may appear in...
• Section 5307.09 - Proceedings Where Estate Cannot Be Divided Without Loss Of Value.
  When the commissioner or commissioners are of opinion that the estate cannot be divided according to the demand of the writ of partition without...
• Section 5307.10 - Terms Of Payment When Estate Taken By Party - Execution Of Conveyance.
  If one or more of the parties in the action for partition elects to take the estate at the appraised value, unless on good...
• Section 5307.11 - Sale Of Estate When No Election Made.
  If no party elects to take the estate, at the insistence of a party, the court of common pleas may order a sale of...
• Section 5307.12 - Conduct Of Sale - Terms.
  (A) A sale of an estate under section 5307.11 of the Revised Code shall be made as follows: (1) If the sale is made...
• Section 5307.13 - Confirmation Of Sale And Execution Of Conveyance.
  On the return of the proceedings to sell the estate, the court of common pleas shall examine them. If a sale has been made,...
• Section 5307.14 - Distribution Of Proceeds; Auctioneer's Compensation And Reimbursement For Expenses; Sheriff's Liability.
  (A) Subject to division (B) of this section, the money or securities arising from a sale of, or an election to take an estate,...
• Section 5307.15 - Proceedings When Estate Has Been Once Offered And Not Sold.
  When the estate has been offered once and not sold, alias writs for its sale may issue as often as need be. The court...
• Section 5307.16 - Execution And Delivery By Sheriff Or Officer Performing Duties Of Sheriff Where Property Not Conveyed.
  If an officer or auctioneer has not conveyed land sold or elected to be taken in a proceeding for partition, the court of common...
• Section 5307.17 - Dower Assigned To Widow - Exceptions.
  (A) When a widow is entitled to dower in an estate of which partition is sought, dower must be assigned her in the estate,...
• Section 5307.18 - Commissioners To Set Off Dower.
  The commissioner or commissioners shall set off to a widow her dower in the estate under section 5307.17 of the Revised Code. In the...
• Section 5307.19 - Power Of Guardian To Act For Ward In Partition.
  As used in this section and section 5307.20 of the Revised Code, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired as a...
• Section 5307.20 - Powers Of Foreign Guardian.
  A person appointed according to the laws of any other state or country to take charge of the estate of an incompetent person not...
• Section 5307.21 - Actions By One Coparcener Against Another.
  One tenant in common, or coparcener, may recover from another tenant in common, or coparcener[,] his share of rents and profits received by such...
• Section 5307.22 - Partition Of Property Belonging To Religious Corporations.
  When two or more religious denominations, or other societies, or associations, have united in a corporation, and as such corporation acquire title to real...
• Section 5307.23 - Partition Of Property Belonging To Religious Societies.
  When two or more religious societies or congregations, by gift or purchase have acquired land upon which to erect a house of public worship,...
• Section 5307.24 - Effect Of Partition Of Religious Property.
  If the court of common pleas finds that partition, in cases mentioned in section 5307.23 of the Revised Code, can be so made as...
• Section 5307.25 - Costs And Expenses To Be Equitably Taxed.
  Having regard to the interest of the parties, the benefit each may derive from a partition, and according to equity, the court of common...

Last modified: October 10, 2016