Effective: October 12, 2016
Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
As used in this section, "incompetent person" means a person who is so mentally impaired, as a result of a mental or physical illness or disability, as a result of an intellectual disability, or as a result of chronic substance abuse, that the person is incapable of taking proper care of the person's self or property or fails to provide for the person's family or other persons for whom the person is charged by law to provide.
Any person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or cestui que trust, in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, an infant, an incompetent person, or an insolvent person, may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect thereto in any of the following cases:
(A) To ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin, or others;
(B) To direct the executors, administrators, trustees, or other fiduciaries to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity;
(C) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Title 27 | Courts-General Provisions-Special Remedies
Chapter 2721 | Declaratory Judgments
Section 2721.01 | Person Defined.
Section 2721.02 | Force and Effect of Declaratory Judgments - Action or Proceeding Against Insurer.
Section 2721.03 | Construction or Validity of Instrument or Legal Provision.
Section 2721.05 | Determination of Rights or Legal Relations.
Section 2721.06 | Powers Not Restricted.
Section 2721.07 | Court May Refuse Judgment.
Section 2721.09 | Further Relief Granted.
Section 2721.10 | Determination of Issues of Fact.
Section 2721.12 | Declaratory Judgment Procedure.
Section 2721.13 | Liberal Construction of Chapter.
Section 2721.14 | Interpretation.
Section 2721.15 | Independent Sections.
Section 2721.16 | Award of Attorney's Fees.
Section 2721.21 | Action for Registry Listing Where Childhood Sexual Abuse Action Barred.