2025 Ohio Revised Code
Title 21 | Courts-Probate-Juvenile
Chapter 2127 | Sale of Lands
Section 2127.16 | Sale to Be Free of Dower.

Universal Citation:
OH Rev Code § 2127.16 (2025)
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Effective: January 13, 2012

Latest Legislation: Senate Bill 124 - 129th General Assembly

In a sale of real property by an executor, administrator, or guardian, the real property shall be sold free of all right and expectancy of dower in the property, but out of the proceeds of the sale, in lieu of dower, the court shall allow to the person having any dower interest in the property a sum in money that is the just and reasonable value of the dower, unless the answer of the person waives that allowance.

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