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The Columbus Bar Association is pleased to provide the information on this website as a service to its members and the general public. The Columbus Bar Association is dedicated to improving the administration of law and justice through community service, the public understanding of the law, and promoting the integrity and continuing education of the profession.

While the information on this site is about legal issues, it is not intended as legal advice or as a substitute for the advice and counsel of a licensed attorney. Due to the rapidly changing nature of the law and our dependence on information provided by outside sources, The Columbus Bar Association does not and can not warranty or guarantee the accuracy or availability of the content on this site or on any other site to which this site links. Moreover, these links to other third party sites are provided exclusively for convenience and are not and should not be interpreted as an endorsement, sponsorship or recommendation of the third party site.

Users of this site are hereby notified that the Columbus Bar Association assumes no liability to any party for any damages arising in any way out of the availability, use, reliance on or inability to use the Columbus Bar Association website or any information provided by or through the Columbus Bar Association website. Further, use of the site by any person shall constitute agreement by that person to hold harmless the Columbus Bar for any claim attributable to errors, omissions or other inaccuracies in, or destructive properties of any information provided by or through, the Columbus Bar Association website.

You may download, use and copy the materials found on the Columbus Bar Association website for your personal, noncommercial use only, provided that all copies of the material that you make must bear any copyright, trademark or other proprietary notice located on the site that pertain to the material being copied. Except as authorized in this paragraph, you are not being granted a license under any copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right found or described herein.

Remember, this site is provided solely as a service to the members of the Columbus Bar Association and the general public to promote the understanding of the law. The law differs from state to state and sometimes within states, procedurally, from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. If you have a legal issue that needs attention, there is no substitute for a licensed attorney. Please, contact an attorney in your area. If you are an Ohio resident, and do not have an attorney, consider using the Columbus Bar Association's Attorney Referral Service.