Ohio Code § 5305.15
Ohio Code § 5305.15. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 5305.15.
In actions for partition, when an estate cannot be divided, and is ordered to be sold,
and in actions for the sale of real estate by executors, administrators, guardians,
and assignees, acting under a general assignment for the benefit of creditors, and
in all other actions and proceedings in which the court orders the sale of real estate
to satisfy a judgment or decree, the surviving spouse who has a dower interest in
such real estate, and is a party, may file an answer, waive the assignment of dower
by metes and bounds, and ask to have the estate sold free of dower and to be allowed,
in lieu thereof, such money out of the proceeds of sale as the court deems the just
value of the dower interest therein.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 5305.15
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
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