Effective: October 12, 2016
Latest Legislation: House Bill 158 - 131st General Assembly
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 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.
The guardian of a minor or incompetent person, on behalf of the guardian's ward, may perform any act, matter, or thing respecting the partition of an estate which such ward could do under sections 5307.01 to 5307.25 of the Revised Code, if the ward were of age and of sound mind. On behalf of such ward, the guardian may elect to take the estate, when it cannot be divided without injury, and make payments therefor on the ward's behalf.
Structure Ohio Revised Code
Section 5307.01 | Persons Compelled to Partition.
Section 5307.02 | Place of Partition Proceedings.
Section 5307.03 | Filing of Petition - Contents.
Section 5307.04 | Order of Partition.
Section 5307.041 | Share of Survivorship Tenants.
Section 5307.05 | Writ of Partition.
Section 5307.06 | Duty of Commissioners in Making Partition.
Section 5307.07 | Partition of Multiple Tracts.
Section 5307.08 | Amicable Partition.
Section 5307.09 | Proceedings Where Estate Cannot Be Divided Without Loss of Value.
Section 5307.10 | Terms of Payment When Estate Taken by Party - Execution of Conveyance.
Section 5307.11 | Sale of Estate When No Election Made.
Section 5307.12 | Conduct of Sale - Terms.
Section 5307.13 | Confirmation of Sale and Execution of Conveyance.
Section 5307.15 | Proceedings When Estate Has Been Once Offered and Not Sold.
Section 5307.17 | Dower Assigned to Widow - Exceptions.
Section 5307.18 | Commissioners to Set Off Dower.
Section 5307.19 | Power of Guardian to Act for Ward in Partition.
Section 5307.20 | Powers of Foreign Guardian.
Section 5307.21 | Actions by One Coparcener Against Another.
Section 5307.22 | Partition of Property Belonging to Religious Corporations.
Section 5307.23 | Partition of Property Belonging to Religious Societies.
Section 5307.24 | Effect of Partition of Religious Property.