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In 1968, the Modern Courts Amendment to the Ohio Constitution was adopted, establishing probate divisions of the courts of common pleas instead. Probate courts additionally have jurisdiction over the issuance of marriage licenses, adoption proceedings, determination of sanity or mental competency and certain eminent domain proceedings.
The average population of Ohio's counties was 133,931; Franklin County was the most populous (1,326,063) and Vinton County was the least (12,474). The average land area is 464 sq mi (1,200 km 2 ). The largest county by area is Ashtabula County at 702.44 sq mi (1,819.3 km 2 ), and its neighbor, Lake County , is the smallest at 228.21 sq mi (591. ...
The Franklin County Government Center is a government complex of Franklin County, Ohio in the city of Columbus. The government center has included several iterations of the Franklin County Courthouse, including a building completed in 1840 and another completed in 1887. Current courthouse functions are spread out between buildings in the complex.
Latecia E. Wiles: [88] First female to serve as a Judge of Wayne County's Probate and Juvenile Court (2013) Molly Mack: [89] First female judge in Wood County, Ohio (2014). She is also the first female Wood County Common Pleas Court judge (2019). Laina Fetherolf-Rogers: First female judge in Vinton County, Ohio. (December 2024)
Franklin County is a county in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census , the population was 1,323,807, [ 3 ] making it the most populous county in Ohio . Most of its land area is taken up by its county seat , Columbus , [ 4 ] the state capital and most populous city in Ohio.
The Franklin County Municipal Court closed at 12:30 p.m. Friday because of technical issues. The court was doing all arraignments in person on Friday instead of virtually because of technology issues.
A probate court (sometimes called a surrogate court) is a court that has competence in a jurisdiction to deal with matters of probate and the administration of estates. [1] In some jurisdictions, such courts may be referred to as orphans' courts [ 2 ] or courts of ordinary.
In 1942, it was sold to and became home to prominent local attorney Leonard Pearl Henderson, an employee of the Franklin County Probate Court and operator of a law firm in Downtown Columbus, and his wife Ferne Henderson, a singer. By the time of his death, he was the oldest practicing African American attorney in Ohio.