Effective: October 31, 2001
Latest Legislation: House Bill 85 - 124th General Assembly
(A) If the probate court determines the following, it shall issue the order requested under section 2105.25 of the Revised Code declaring the man alleging himself to be the father of the adult child to be the adult child's father:
(1) The order was freely and voluntarily requested.
(2) No person is designated as the father on the birth certificate of the adult child.
(3) Genetic test results show that the man is the father of the adult child.
(4) It is in the best interests of the man and adult child that the order be issued.
(B) As part of the order, the court shall order the adult child's birth certificate to be changed to designate the man as the adult child's father.
(C) After issuance of an order under this section, the adult child shall be considered the child of the man declared to be the father as if born to him in lawful wedlock, except that the adult child and the adult child's mother shall not be awarded child support from the man for the time the adult child was a minor.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile
Chapter 2105 | Descent and Distribution
Section 2105.01 | No Distinction Between Ancestral and Nonancestral or Real and Personal Property.
Section 2105.02 | Construction of Living and Died.
Section 2105.03 | Determination of Next of Kin.
Section 2105.04 | Permanent Leases to Descend Same as Estates in Fee.
Section 2105.051 | Advancements - Time of Valuation.
Section 2105.052 | Debts Owed to Decedent.
Section 2105.06 | Statute of Descent and Distribution.
Section 2105.061 | Real Property Subject to Monetary Charge of Surviving Spouse.
Section 2105.062 | Children Conceived as Result of Rape or Sexual Battery.
Section 2105.07 | Escheat of Personal Estate.
Section 2105.08 | Application of Provisions Relating to Escheating Estates.
Section 2105.09 | Disposition of Escheated Lands.
Section 2105.10 | Parent Abandoning Minor Child Barred From Intestate Succession.
Section 2105.11 | Estate to Descend Equally to Children of Intestate.
Section 2105.12 | Descent When All Descendants of Equal Degree of Consanguinity.
Section 2105.13 | Descent When Children and Heirs of Deceased Children Are Living.
Section 2105.14 | Child Conceived Before Intestate's Death.
Section 2105.15 | Designation of Heir at Law.
Section 2105.16 | Heirs of Aliens May Inherit - Aliens May Hold Lands.
Section 2105.17 | Children Born Out of Wedlock.
Section 2105.19 | Persons Prohibited From Benefiting by the Death of Another.
Section 2105.20 | Waste by Tenant for Life.
Section 2105.25 | Filing Declaration Alleging Fatherhood of Adult Child.
Section 2105.26 | Order Declaring Fatherhood of Adult Child.
Section 2105.31 | Uniform Simultaneous Death Act Definitions.
Section 2105.32 | Person Is Deemed to Have Predeceased Another Person.
Section 2105.33 | Person Deemed to Have Predeceased Specified Event.
Section 2105.34 | Co-Owners With Right of Survivorship.
Section 2105.35 | Determination and Evidence of Death and Status.
Section 2105.36 | Provisions of Governing Instrument.
Section 2105.37 | Payor or Third Party Not Liable.
Section 2105.38 | Retroactivity.