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43-8-1
Section 43-8-1 General definitions. Subject to additional definitions contained in the subsequent
articles which are applicable to specific articles or divisions, and unless the context otherwise
requires, in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings: (1) BENEFICIARY.
As it relates to trust beneficiaries, includes a person who has any present or future interest,
vested or contingent, and also includes the owner of an interest by assignment or other transfer
and as it relates to a charitable trust, includes any person entitled to enforce the trust.
(2) CHILD. Includes any individual entitled to take as a child under this chapter by intestate
succession from the parent whose relationship is involved and excludes any person who is only
a stepchild, a foster child, a grandchild or any more remote descendant. (3) COURT. The court
having jurisdiction in matters relating to the affairs of decedents. This court in Alabama
is known as the probate court. (4) DAYS. That...
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26-2A-138
Section 26-2A-138 Who may be appointed conservator; priorities. (a) The court may appoint an
individual or a corporation with general power to serve as trustee or conservator of the estate
of a protected person. The following are entitled to consideration for appointment in the
order listed: (1) A conservator, guardian of property, or other like fiduciary appointed or
recognized by an appropriate court of any other jurisdiction in which the protected person
resides; (2) An individual or corporation nominated by the protected person who is 14 or more
years of age and of sufficient mental capacity to make an intelligent choice; (3) An attorney-in-fact
under a valid durable power of attorney previously executed by the protected person and giving
the attorney-in-fact reasonably broad powers over the property of the protected person; (4)
The spouse of the protected person, or a person nominated by the will of a deceased spouse
to whom the protected person was married at the decedent's death...
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35-6-45
Section 35-6-45 Decree for partition; appointment of commissioners; minors' interests considered.
If, upon the hearing, the court is satisfied from the proof that the property described in
the application is held and owned jointly, or in common, it must decree the same to be divided
or partitioned among the joint owners or tenants in common, according to their respective
interests therein; and to effect such division or partition, it must appoint suitable commissioners,
not more than five, any three of whom may act; but if the application is for the partition
of lands, and any of the parties interested are minors, the court, before granting the application,
must be satisfied by evidence taken as in actions before the circuit court that it is to the
interest of such minors that the partition be made. (Code 1867, §3108; Code 1876, §3502;
Code 1886, §3241; Code 1896, §3166; Code 1907, §5208; Code 1923, §9308, Code 1940, T.
47, §197.)...
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19-3B-103
Section 19-3B-103 Definitions. In this chapter: (1) ACTION, with respect to an act of a trustee,
includes a failure to act. (2) ASCERTAINABLE STANDARD means a standard relating to an individual's
health, education, support, or maintenance within the meaning of Section 2041(b)(1)(A) or
2514(c)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as in effect on January 1, 2007, or as later
amended. (3) BENEFICIARY means a person that: (A) has a present or future beneficial interest
in a trust, vested or contingent; or (B) in a capacity other than that of trustee, holds a
power of appointment over trust property. (4) CHARITABLE TRUST means a trust, or portion of
a trust, created for a charitable purpose described in Section 19-3B-405(a). (5) CONSERVATOR
means a person appointed by the court to administer the estate of a minor or adult individual.
(6) ENVIRONMENTAL LAW means a federal, state, or local law, rule, regulation, or ordinance
relating to protection of the environment. (7) GUARDIAN means a...
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26-2A-78
Section 26-2A-78 Powers and duties of guardian of minor. (a) A guardian of a minor ward has
the powers and responsibilities of a parent regarding the ward's health, support, education,
or maintenance, but a guardian is not personally liable for the ward's expenses and is not
liable to third persons by reason of the relationship for acts of the ward. (b) In particular
and without qualifying the foregoing, a guardian shall: (1) Become or remain personally acquainted
with the ward and maintain sufficient contact with the ward to know of the ward's capacities,
limitations, needs, opportunities, and physical and mental health; (2) Take reasonable care
of the ward's personal effects and commence protective proceedings if necessary to protect
other property of the ward; (3) Apply any available money of the ward to the ward's current
needs for health, support, education, or maintenance; (4) Conserve any excess money of the
ward for the ward's future needs, but if a conservator has been...
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35-6-81
Section 35-6-81 Report of sale by guardian to court. Within three months after making any such
sale, such guardian shall report the same under oath to the court having jurisdiction of his
administration of the estate of such ward. If the whole of the share of such ward in the proceeds
of such sale shall have been paid when such report is made, such fact shall be stated therein,
and the guardian shall therein apply to the court for authority to make a conveyance of the
interest of said ward in the lands or realty so sold to the purchaser. Such report shall set
forth the name, residence, and age of such ward, and of the person in whose custody he is,
and the name and residence of the adult next of kin of said ward, resident in the state and
not interested in such sale; if there be more than one such next of kin of the same degree,
such report must set forth the names and residences of all of them resident in this state.
(Code 1907, §5254; Code 1923, §9358; Code 1940, T. 47, §220.)...
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6-10-106
Section 6-10-106 Proceedings to set aside exemptions when husband, wife, or parent absent seven
years and residence not ascertainable - Generally. (a) When the real and personal property
owned by an absent husband, wife, or parent who has not been heard from and whose residence
has been unknown for seven years and whose residence cannot be ascertained by diligent inquiry
does not exceed in amount and value the exemptions allowed in favor of his or her surviving
spouse and minor child or children, or either, the probate court of the county in which he
or she resided before leaving his or her spouse or children, upon the application of the deserted
spouse or, if there is no spouse or he or she does not act, upon the application of the guardian
or of a suitable person who shall be appointed by the judge of probate as next friend of such
minor children, verified by oath and setting forth such facts, must appoint two commissioners,
who shall make a full and complete inventory and...
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6-6-185
Section 6-6-185 Complaint for discovery of assets - Orders or judgments; appointment of receiver.
If, from the answer, it appears that the defendant has property, real and personal, or an
interest in property, real or personal, subject to the payment of debts, or has money, effects,
or choses in action or an interest in moneys, effects, or choses in action subject to the
payment of debts, whether such property, money, effects, or choses in action are within or
without the state, the court must make all such orders or judgments as may be necessary and
proper to reach and subject such property, moneys, effects, or choses in action and, for that
purpose, may appoint a receiver with authority to demand, commence an action for and recover
or otherwise to reduce to possession such property, moneys, effects, or choses in action and
may require the debtor to make to such receiver all conveyances, assignments, or transfers
which may be necessary and proper to enable him to receive or to...
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26-9-14
Section 26-9-14 Filing of account of receipts and disbursements for settlement by guardian;
certification of copy thereof to veterans' administration; notice of hearing thereon. Every
guardian who shall receive on account of his or her ward any moneys from the administration
shall file with the court annually on the anniversary date of the appointment, in addition
to such other accounts as may be required by the court, a full, true, and accurate account
under oath of all moneys so received by him or her and of all disbursements thereof, showing
the balance thereof in his or her hands at the date of such account and how invested, including
a complete descriptive itemization of all investments, and must submit to the court for its
examination all securities and evidences of debt belonging to the ward, and the decree of
the court passing the settlement must recite that all securities and evidences of debt due
the ward have been presented to and examined by the court; provided, that in the...
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44-1-36
Section 44-1-36 Commitment of mentally ill or retarded youth to state hospital; discharge of
rehabilitated youth; release of youth into aftercare; termination or extension of orders of
commitment. (a) In the event a committed youth shall be diagnosed in writing as mentally ill
to the degree that said youth is unable to profit from the programs operated by the department
of youth services for the benefit of delinquent youth, the department may petition the proper
juvenile court for the commitment of the said youth to the state hospital for the mentally
ill. The diagnosis must be made by a person who is legally and professionally qualified under
the laws of Alabama to make such a diagnosis. (b) In the event a committed youth shall be
diagnosed in writing as mentally retarded to the degree that said youth is unable to profit
from the programs operated by the department for the benefit of delinquent youth, the department
may petition the proper juvenile court for the commitment of the said...
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