Ohio Rev. Code § 2101.16: Fees.

(A) Except as provided in section 2101.164 of the Revised Code, the fees enumerated in this division shall be charged and collected, if possible, by the probate judge and shall be in full for all services rendered in the respective proceedings:

(1) Account, in addition to advertising charges

___________________________________________________ $12.00

Waivers and proof of notice of hearing on account, per page, minimum one dollar

___________________________________________________ $1.00

(2) Account of distribution, in addition to advertising charges

___________________________________________________ $7.00

(3) Adoption of child, petition for

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(4) Alter or cancel contract for sale or purchase of real property, complaint to

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(5) Application and order not otherwise provided for in this section or by rule adopted pursuant to division (E) of this section

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(6) Appropriation suit, per day, hearing in

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(7) Birth, application for registration of

___________________________________________________ $7.00

(8) Birth record, application to correct

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(9) Bond, application for new or additional

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(10) Bond, application for release of surety or reduction of

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(11) Bond, receipt for securities deposited in lieu of

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(12) Certified copy of journal entry, record, or proceeding, per page, minimum fee one dollar

___________________________________________________ $1.00

(13) Citation and issuing citation, application for

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(14) Change of name, petition for

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(15) Claim, application of administrator or executor for allowance of administrator's or executor's own

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(16) Claim, application to compromise or settle

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(17) Claim, authority to present

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(18) Commissioner, appointment of

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(19) Compensation for extraordinary services and attorney's fees for fiduciary, application for

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(20) Competency, application to procure adjudication of

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(21) Complete contract, application to

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(22) Concealment of assets, citation for

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(23) Construction of will, complaint for

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(24) Continue decedent's business, application to

___________________________________________________ $10.00

Monthly reports of operation

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(25) Declaratory judgment, complaint for

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(26) Deposit of will

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(27) Designation of heir

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(28) Distribution in kind, application, assent, and order for

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(29) Distribution under section 2109.36 of the Revised Code, application for an order of

___________________________________________________ $7.00

(30) Docketing and indexing proceedings, including the filing and noting of all necessary documents, maximum fee, fifteen dollars

___________________________________________________ $15.00

(31) Exceptions to any proceeding named in this section, contest of appointment or

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(32) Election of surviving partner to purchase assets of partnership, proceedings relating to

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(33) Election of surviving spouse under will

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(34) Fiduciary, including an assignee or trustee of an insolvent debtor or any guardian or conservator accountable to the probate court, appointment of

___________________________________________________ $35.00

(35) Foreign will, application to record

___________________________________________________ $10.00

Record of foreign will, additional, per page

___________________________________________________ $1.00

(36) Forms when supplied by the probate court, not to exceed

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(37) Heirship, complaint to determine

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(38) Injunction proceedings

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(39) Improve real property, petition to

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(40) Inventory with appraisement

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(41) Inventory without appraisement

___________________________________________________ $7.00

(42) Investment or expenditure of funds, application for

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(43) Invest in real property, application to

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(44) Lease for oil, gas, coal, or other mineral, petition to

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(45) Lease or lease and improve real property, petition to

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(46) Marriage license

___________________________________________________ $10.00

Certified abstract of each marriage

___________________________________________________ $2.00

(47) Minor or incompetent person, etc., disposal of estate under twenty-five thousand dollars of

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(48) Mortgage or mortgage and repair or improve real property, complaint to

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(49) Newly discovered assets, report of

___________________________________________________ $7.00

(50) Nonresident executor or administrator to bar creditors' claims, proceedings by

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(51) Power of attorney or revocation of power, bonding company

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(52) Presumption of death, petition to establish

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(53) Probating will

___________________________________________________ $15.00

Proof of notice to beneficiaries

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(54) Purchase personal property, application of surviving spouse to

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(55) Purchase real property at appraised value, petition of surviving spouse to

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(56) Receipts in addition to advertising charges, application and order to record

___________________________________________________ $5.00

Record of those receipts, additional, per page

___________________________________________________ $1.00

(57) Record in excess of fifteen hundred words in any proceeding in the probate court, per page

___________________________________________________ $1.00

(58) Release of estate by mortgagee or other lienholder

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(59) Relieving an estate from administration under section 2113.03 of the Revised Code or granting an order for a summary release from administration under section 2113.031 of the Revised Code

___________________________________________________ $60.00

(60) Removal of fiduciary, application for

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(61) Requalification of executor or administrator

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(62) Resignation of fiduciary

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(63) Sale bill, public sale of personal property

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(64) Sale of personal property and report, application for

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(65) Sale of real property, petition for

___________________________________________________ $25.00

(66) Terminate guardianship, petition to

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(67) Transfer of real property, application, entry, and certificate for

___________________________________________________ $7.00

(68) Unclaimed money, application to invest

___________________________________________________ $7.00

(69) Vacate approval of account or order of distribution, motion to

___________________________________________________ $10.00

(70) Writ of execution

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(71) Writ of possession

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(72) Wrongful death, application and settlement of claim for

___________________________________________________ $20.00

(73) Year's allowance, petition to review

___________________________________________________ $7.00

(74) Guardian's report, filing and review of

___________________________________________________ $5.00

(75) Person with a mental illness subject to court order, filing of affidavit and proceedings for

___________________________________________________ $25.00

(B)(1) In relation to an application for the appointment of a guardian or the review of a report of a guardian under section 2111.49 of the Revised Code, the probate court, pursuant to court order or in accordance with a court rule, may direct that the applicant or the estate pay any or all of the expenses of an investigation conducted pursuant to section 2111.041 or division (A)(2) of section 2111.49 of the Revised Code. If the investigation is conducted by a public employee or investigator who is paid by the county, the fees for the investigation shall be paid into the county treasury. If the court finds that an alleged incompetent or a ward is indigent, the court may waive the costs, fees, and expenses of an investigation.

(2) In relation to the appointment or functioning of a guardian for a minor or the guardianship of a minor, the probate court may direct that the applicant or the estate pay any or all of the expenses of an investigation conducted pursuant to section 2111.042 of the Revised Code. If the investigation is conducted by a public employee or investigator who is paid by the county, the fees for the investigation shall be paid into the county treasury. If the court finds that the guardian or applicant is indigent, the court may waive the costs, fees, and expenses of an investigation.

(3) In relation to the filing of an affidavit of mental illness for a person with a mental illness subject to court order, the court may waive the fee under division (A)(75) of this section if the court finds that the affiant is indigent or for good cause shown.

(C) Thirty dollars of the thirty-five-dollar fee collected pursuant to division (A)(34) of this section and twenty dollars of the sixty-dollar fee collected pursuant to division (A)(59) of this section shall be deposited by the county treasurer in the indigent guardianship fund created pursuant to section 2111.51 of the Revised Code.

(D) The fees of witnesses, jurors, sheriffs, coroners, and constables for services rendered in the probate court or by order of the probate judge shall be the same as provided for similar services in the court of common pleas.

(E) The probate court, by rule, may require an advance deposit for costs, not to exceed one hundred twenty-five dollars, at the time application is made for an appointment as executor or administrator or at the time a will is presented for probate.

(F)(1) The "putative father registry fund" is hereby created in the state treasury. The department of children and youth shall use the money in the fund to fund the department's costs of performing its duties related to the putative father registry established under section 3107.062 of the Revised Code.

(2) If the department determines that money in the putative father registry fund is more than is needed for its duties related to the putative father registry, the department may use the surplus moneys in the fund as permitted in division (D) of section 2151.3527 or section 5103.155 of the Revised Code.