Ohio Code § 5815.31
Ohio Code § 5815.31. Reproduced from the official Ohio Revised Code, with a citation summary, verification link, and related provisions.
§ 5815.31.
Unless the trust or separation agreement provides otherwise, if, after executing a
trust in which the grantor reserves to self a power to alter, amend, revoke, or terminate
the provisions of the trust, a grantor is divorced, obtains a dissolution of marriage,
has the grantor's marriage annulled, or, upon actual separation from the grantor's
spouse, enters into a separation agreement pursuant to which the parties intend to
fully and finally settle their prospective property rights in the property of the
other, whether by expected inheritance or otherwise, the spouse or former spouse of
the grantor shall be deemed to have predeceased the grantor, and any provision in
the trust conferring any beneficial interest or a general or special power of appointment
on the spouse or former spouse or nominating the spouse or former spouse as trustee
or trust advisor shall be revoked. If the grantor remarries the grantor's former spouse or if the separation agreement
is terminated, the spouse shall not be deemed to have predeceased the grantor, and
any provision in the trust conferring any beneficial interest or a general or special
power of appointment on the spouse or former spouse or nominating the spouse or former
spouse as trustee or trust advisor shall not be revoked.
Source: official Ohio text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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- Citation: Ohio Revised Code § 5815.31
- Jurisdiction: Ohio
- Code: Ohio Revised Code
- Text: transcribed from the official source (verify below)
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