Lake County Court of Common Pleas
 Probate Division

Ted Klammer, Probate Judge 

Lake County
Probate Court
25 North Park Place
Painesville, OH 44077

Phone:      (440) 350-2626
West End: (440) 918-2626
Fax:            (440) 350-2628
West End: (440) 918-2628


Hours of Service:
Monday-Friday
7:30 am to 5 pm*

*Closed on holidays
observed by
Lake County

CIVIL PROCEEDINGS

Procedure:

• Most civil cases comes in with a complaint with copies for each defendant

Land Sale Forms:

• Application for Appointment of Guardian Ad Litem
• Approving Additional Bond and Ordering Sale
• Journal Entry Proceeding to Sell Real Estate: Confirming Appraisement and Ordering Additional Bond
• Judgment Entry Proceeding to Sell Real Estate: Finding Sale Necessary and Ordering Appraisement
• Judgment Entry Proceeding to Sell Real Estate: Dispensing With A New Appraisement and Ordering Bond
• Judgment Entry Proceeding to Sell Real Estate:  Dispensing With A New Appraisement and Bond and Ordering Sale
• Order of Appraisement
• Order of Private Sale
• Proceeding to Sell Real Estate
• Waiver of Summons on Petition to Sell Real Estate

Fees:

• Appropriations                   $100.00
• Land Sale                         $150.00
• Complaint to Contest Will   $100.00
• Structured Settlement
• Declaratory Judgment          $100.00