Ohio Code 2107.11 – Jurisdiction to probate
(A) A will shall be admitted to probate:
Terms Used In Ohio Code 2107.11
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
- Probate: Proving a will
- Property: means real and personal property. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
- state: means the state of Ohio. See Ohio Code 1.59
- Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
(1) In the county in this state in which the testator was domiciled at the time of the testator’s death;
(2) In any county of this state where any real property or personal property of the testator is located if, at the time of the testator’s death, the testator was not domiciled in this state, and provided that the will has not previously been admitted to probate in this state or in the state of the testator’s domicile;
(3) In the county of this state in which a court rendered a judgment declaring that the will was valid pursuant to division (A)(1) of section 5817.10 of the Revised Code.
(B) For the purpose of division (A)(2) of this section, intangible personal property is located in the place where the instrument evidencing a debt, obligation, stock, or chose in action is located or if there is no instrument of that nature where the debtor resides.