Ohio Code § 5307.17

§ 5307.17.

(A) When a widow is entitled to dower in an estate of which partition is sought, dower

must be assigned her in the estate, except in the following cases: (1) When an assignment of dower already has been made; (2) When, by answer, she has elected to be endowed out of the proceeds of a sale of the

estate, and the commissioner or commissioners do not make partition but return a valuation

of it; (3) When the right of dower extends only to an undivided interest in the estate. (B) In cases in which the right of dower extends only to an undivided interest in the

estate, and in cases in which an undivided interest is subject to a life estate, and

the tenant for life has not, by answer, elected to receive the value of the tenant

for life's estate out of the proceeds of a sale of such interest, if an appraisement

of the estate is to be returned, the commissioner or commissioners may assign the

dower or set off the life estate, or, if the commissioner or commissioners find it

for the interest of the parties to do so, the commissioner or commissioners may appraise

the whole interest, and the widow and the tenant for life shall receive the value

of their interests out of the proceeds of a sale of it.