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Eric S. Brown (born August 21, 1953) is the former chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court.He was appointed by Governor Ted Strickland on May 3, 2010, following the death of Chief Justice Thomas Moyer on April 2, 2010. [1]
The probate process typically involves fees for the court, attorneys, executor duties, appraisals and more. An uneventful probate may cost several hundred dollars, a minor cost for most estates.
Latecia E. Wiles: First female to serve as a Judge of Wayne County's Probate and Juvenile Court (2013) Molly Mack: [86] First female judge in Wood County, Ohio (2014). She is also the first female Wood County Common Pleas Court judge (2019).
Brown County was formed in 1818, and the county seat was placed in Ripley. A courthouse was started in 1821, but the county seat was moved to Bridgewater and then to Georgetown. The courthouse was constructed in 1823 and was a simple square structure made of red brick with a hipped roof. This courthouse was soon decided to be too small for the ...
Cleveland State University ( JD) Maureen O'Connor (born August 7, 1951) is an American lawyer and judge who served as the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court from 2011 to 2022. She was elected to the court in 2002, becoming chief justice in 2010. [ 1][ 2] She was the first woman to lead the Ohio Supreme Court [ 3][ 2][ 4][ 5] and the ...
A probate court (sometimes called a surrogate court) is a court that has competence in a jurisdiction to deal with matters of probate and the administration of estates. [1] In some jurisdictions, such courts may be referred to as orphans' courts [2] or courts of ordinary. In some jurisdictions probate court functions are performed by a chancery ...
In 1968, the Modern Courts Amendment to the Ohio Constitution was adopted, establishing probate divisions of the courts of common pleas instead. Probate courts additionally have jurisdiction over the issuance of marriage licenses, adoption proceedings, determination of sanity or mental competency and certain eminent domain proceedings.
List of counties in Ohio. There are 88 counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. Nine of them existed at the time of the Ohio Constitutional Convention in 1802. [ 1] A tenth county, Wayne, was established on August 15, 1796, and encompassed roughly the present state of Michigan. [ 2] During the Convention, the county was opposed to statehood, and was ...