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Ohio Probate Divisions
The Ohio Probate Divisions are part of the trial courts in Ohio. The state's eighty-eight counties each have a probate division of its court of common pleas.
Jurisdiction
There are two hundred separate duties upon the probate court divisions set by the Ohio Revised Code. Duties of the Probate Divisions include the following: "the administration of decedent’s estates, consent for medical treatment, the appointment of guardians for minors and incapacitated adults and the supervision of their property, civil involuntary commitments of the mentally ill, adoptions, birth record corrections and registrations, changes of name, issuance of marriage licenses, supervision of testamentary trusts (those created by will) and interpretation and enforcement of Inter Vivos Trusts (those created during a person’s lifetime), land appropriations, and will constructions."[1]
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