Ohio Code § 2121.07

§ 2121.07.

(A) Before any distribution of personal property is made from the estate of a presumed

decedent, the persons entitled to receive such property may in the discretion of the

court and as a condition of distribution be required to give bond in the form and

amount, with or without sureties, as the court orders, with the condition that if

within a three-year period after the decree is entered by the court it is established

that the presumed decedent is alive, the distributee will upon subsequent order of

the court refund or return the property to the presumed decedent, or the fair market

value of property if the same shall have been sold or otherwise disposed of in the

interim. (B) Nothing in this section shall preclude a distributee from selling, encumbering, or

otherwise disposing of any property so distributed and any purchaser, transferee,

or mortgagee acquires good title to such property free and clear of any claim of the

presumed decedent.