Comments: OH HB238 | 2009-2010 | 128th General Assembly

Bill Title: To require the court in divorce or legal separation proceedings to require the spouses to fully disclose their assets and to include nondisclosure of assets as financial misconduct, to permit a court to modify a division of property in a divorce decree or decree of dissolution of marriage upon the express written consent or agreement of both spouses, to eliminate the prohibition against a municipal or county court judge being eligible for life insurance coverage from a county or other political subdivision, to change the statutory designation of the Chardon, Lyndhurst, and Miamisburg Municipal Court judges from part-time to full-time judges, to prohibit a county court judge from retaining a fee for performing a marriage ceremony, to remove the statutorily required notice regarding possessing or purchasing a firearm when subject to certain nondomestic violence protection orders issued as a pretrial condition of release, to modify the notice requirements regarding possessing or purchasing a firearm when subject to a domestic violence-related temporary protection order, to create the Putnam County Municipal Court in Ottawa on January 1, 2011, to establish one full-time judgeship in that court, to provide for the nomination of the judge by petition only, to abolish the Putnam County County Court on that date, to designate the Putnam County Clerk of Courts as the clerk of the Putnam County Municipal Court, to provide for the election for the Putnam County Municipal Court of one full-time judge in 2011, to make deputy sheriffs ex officio bailiffs of municipal courts, to create the Montgomery County Municipal Court on July 1, 2010; to abolish the Montgomery County County Court on that date; to designate the Montgomery County Clerk of Courts as the Clerk of the Montgomery County Municipal Court; to provide for the election for the Montgomery County Municipal Court of one full-time judge and one part-time judge in 2011 and one full-time and one part-time judge in 2013; and to abolish one of the four judgeships by December 31, 2015, and one of the remaining three judgeships by December 31, 2021.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 29-12)

Status: (Passed) 2010-09-08 - Effective Date [HB238 Detail]

Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [HTML]

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