Ohio Probate Courts
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The Ohio Probate Courts are trial courts in Ohio. Ohio’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 set by the Ohio Revised Code. Duties of the Probate Court 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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