Ohio § 2111.181

§ 2111.181.

If personal injury, damage to tangible or intangible property, or damage or loss on

account of personal injury or damage to tangible or intangible property is caused

to a minor who claims to be emancipated, by wrongful act, neglect, or default that

would entitle the minor to maintain an action and recover damages for the injury,

damage, or loss, and if any minor who claims to be emancipated is entitled to maintain

an action for damages or any other relief based on any claim, or is subject to any

claim to recover damages or any other relief based on any claim, the minor who claims

to be emancipated may file an application in the probate court in the county where

the minor then resides, praying for a finding by the court that the minor is in fact

emancipated, and authorizing, approving, and consenting to the settlement of the claim

by the minor without the appointment of a guardian.  Upon hearing on the application, after five days' written notice of the time and

place of the hearing has been given to each of the living parents of the minor, whose

name and address is known, provided the parent is free from disability other than

minority, or, if there is no living parent, after that notice to the next of kin of

the minor known to reside in the county, the court may find the minor to be emancipated,

may authorize, approve, and consent to the settlement of the claim by the minor without

the appointment of a guardian, may authorize the minor to receive and receipt for

the settlement, and, upon the minor executing and delivering a full and complete release

for the injuries, damages, losses, or claims, may authorize the delivery and payment

of the moneys to the minor, to a trustee or guardian of the estate of the minor appointed

by the court for the benefit of the minor, or to a depository authorized to receive

fiduciary funds to hold the moneys payable to the ward when the ward attains majority,

or for the benefit of the minor, as the court may direct. Upon the finding of the probate court that the minor was, at the time of the injury,

damage, loss, or claim, an emancipated minor, and provided the notice required by

this section has been given to each living parent, whose name and address is known,

then the release executed by the emancipated minor shall be a full and complete discharge

and release of any claim that either or both of the parents might have by reason of

the personal injury, damage to tangible or intangible property, damage or loss on

account of personal injury, or damage to tangible or intangible property, or any other

claim of the minor.