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43-2-171
Section 43-2-171 Time delay for committing administration of estate. The administration of
an estate must not be committed to the general administrator or to the sheriff, except as
special administrator, until the death of the decedent has been known 40 days, nor until one
month after the death, resignation or removal of an executor or administrator previously appointed.
(Code 1852, §1682; Code 1867, §2002; Code 1876, §2364; Code 1886, §2030; Code 1896, §73;
Code 1907, §2539; Code 1923, §5761; Code 1940, T. 61, §138.)...
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43-2-173
Section 43-2-173 Resignation and removal - Generally. (a) The general administrator may be
removed for the same causes as other administrators. Such removal may be made by the judge
of probate without notice, but the grounds thereof must be entered on the minutes of the court.
(b) The resignation of the office of general administrator shall not operate to discharge
the incumbent from the administration of any estate previously committed to his charge as
such general administrator; but he may proceed, notwithstanding such resignation, to administer
and finally settle the same, as if he had not resigned such office; and the sureties on his
bond as general administrator shall be liable for every act of maladministration on such estate
committed after his resignation, to the same extent as if he had not resigned; but he may
be removed from the administration of such estate for any of the causes prescribed by law,
or he may resign his administration thereon by leave of the probate court of...
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6-2-41
Section 6-2-41 Limitations on claims to charge real estate with debts and obligations of decedent.
(a) The real estate of persons dying testate or intestate shall, as against the rights of
mortgagees or purchasers for value from the heirs or devisees, be forever discharged from
the payment of all legal and equitable debts and obligations unless the persons, including
minors and insane persons, owning such debts or benefited by said obligations shall within
the time allowed by law, but in no event more than two years from the death of the deceased,
file in the probate court of the county where said property is located a verified claim showing
the nature and amount of said debts and obligations. (b) Wherever there has been no executor
or administrator appointed, then the person owning said debt or benefited by said obligation
must, within three months after filing said claim, cause letters testamentary or of administration
to be issued and proceed to subject said land to said debts or...
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19-3B-505
Section 19-3B-505 Creditor's claim against settlor. (a) Whether or not the terms of a trust
contain a spendthrift provision, the following rules apply: (1) During the lifetime of the
settlor, the property of a revocable trust is subject to claims of the settlor's creditors.
(2) With respect to an irrevocable trust, a creditor or assignee of the settlor may reach
the maximum amount that can be distributed to or for the settlor's benefit. If a trust has
more than one settlor, then the amount the creditor or assignee of a particular settlor may
reach may not exceed the settlor's interest in the portion of the trust attributable to that
settlor's contribution. (3) After the death of a settlor, and subject to the settlor's right
to direct the source from which liabilities will be paid, the property of a trust that was
revocable immediately prior to the settlor's death is subject to claims of the settlor's creditors,
costs of administration of the settlor's estate, the expenses of the...
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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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6-10-100
Section 6-10-100 Proceedings to set apart exemptions when administration not granted on decedent's
estate within 60 days after death - Generally. (a) When the property, real or personal, owned
by a decedent at the time of his death does not exceed in amount and value the exemption allowed
in favor of his or her surviving spouse and minor child or children, or either, and no administration
is granted on his estate within 60 days after his death, the probate court of the county in
which he resided at the time of his death, upon the application of the surviving spouse or,
if there is no surviving spouse or he or she does not act, upon the application of a suitable
person who shall be appointed by the judge of probate as the next friend of such minor child
or children, verified by oath and setting forth such facts, as well as the names, condition,
and residence, if known, of the heirs of the decedent other than the minor children of the
decedent, must appoint two commissioners, who shall...
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43-2-629
Section 43-2-629 Disposition of personal estate of foreign decedent. (a) When administration
is taken out in this state on the estate of any person who, at the time of his death, was
an inhabitant of any other state or country, his personal estate, after the payment of debts
and charges on his estate, must be disposed of according to his last will, if probated in
this state and, if no such will is probated in this state, according to the law of the state
or country of which he was an inhabitant. (b) Upon the settlement of such estate and after
the payment of all debts for which the same is liable in this state, the residue of the personal
estate may be distributed and disposed of according to the provisions of subsection (a); or
it may be transmitted or paid over to the executor or administrator of the state or country
where the deceased had his domicile. (Code 1852, §§1826, 1827; Code 1867, §§2163, 2164;
Code 1876, §§2535, 2536; Code 1886, §§2153, 2154; Code 1896, §§221,...
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6-10-101
Section 6-10-101 Proceedings to set apart exemptions when administration not granted on decedent's
estate within 60 days after death - Vesting of title to real property in surviving spouse
and minors and right to possession thereof. If no exceptions are filed and sustained to such
report of the commissioners setting apart the homestead exemption, the title to the real property
so set aside shall vest in the surviving spouse and minors, share and share alike, but only
during the life of the surviving spouse and minority of the children. If all the real property
left by the decedent in this state does not exceed in area and value the homestead allowed
by law as exempt, title to all such real property shall vest absolutely in the surviving spouse,
the children (minors and adults) and the descendants of deceased children, or, if there is
no surviving spouse, in the children and the descendants of deceased children, or, if there
are no children or descendants of deceased children, in the...
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43-2-84
Section 43-2-84 Bond of applicant when administration committed to general administrator or
sheriff. (a) When administration is committed to the general administrator or sheriff, on
the application of a third person, such letters must not be granted unless such person enters
into bond, with surety, to be approved by the judge, to pay the fees and allowances made by
the court on such administration, if the property of the estate is insufficient therefor.
(b) If, upon the settlement of an administrator appointed under subsection (a), it appears
that sufficient assets of his intestate have not come to his hands to pay the costs and expenses
legally incurred in his administration, the probate court having jurisdiction of such administration
may enter a judgment and thereon issue execution against the obligors in the bond mentioned
in subsection (a), for any excess due above the assets in the hands of such administrator.
(Code 1852, §1691; Code 1867, §§2011, 2012; Code 1876, §§2373,...
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43-2-235
Section 43-2-235 Revocation of letters upon proof that supposed decedent is alive - Distribution
of assets. The probate court may revoke the said letters at any time on due and satisfactory
proof that the supposed decedent is in fact alive, after which revocation all the powers of
the administrator shall cease, but all receipts, disbursements of assets and other acts previously
done by him shall remain as valid as if the said letters were unrevoked. The administrator
shall settle an account of his administration, down to the time of such revocation, and shall
transfer all assets remaining in his hands to the person as whose administrator he had acted
or to his duly authorized agent or attorney. Nothing in this article shall validate the title
of any person to any property or money received as widow, next of kin or heir of such supposed
decedent, but the same may be recovered from such person, provided such supposed decedent
shall make due and sufficient legal proof to the court having...
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