Section 5305.22. Real estate may be conveyed free from dower if spouse incompetent

(A) Any real estate or interest in real estate coming to a person by purchase, inheritance, or otherwise, after the spouse of the person is adjudged a mentally ill person subject to court order and admitted to either a hospital for persons with mental illness in this or any other state of the United States or the psychiatric department of any hospital of the United States, may be conveyed by the person while the person's spouse who is a mentally ill person subject to court order remains a patient of that hospital, free and clear from any dower right or expectancy of the person's spouse who is a mentally ill person subject to court order. Dower shall not attach to any real estate so acquired and conveyed during the time described in this section in favor of such spouse who is a mentally ill person subject to court order. The indorsement upon the instrument of conveyance, by the superintendent of the hospital to which the spouse was admitted, that the spouse of the person conveying the real estate is a mentally ill person subject to court order who has been admitted to that hospital, stating when received in that hospital and signed officially by the superintendent, shall be sufficient evidence of the fact that the spouse of the person conveying the real estate is a mentally ill person subject to court order. This indorsement shall be a part of the instrument of conveyance.

(B) As used in this section, "mentally ill person subject to court order" has the same meaning as in section 5122.01 of the Revised Code.

Amended by 130th General Assembly File No. TBD, SB 43, §1, eff. 9/17/2014.

Effective Date: 10-01-1953; 2007 HB53 08-07-2007; 2008 SB157 05-14-2008