43-2-211
Section 43-2-211 Right to maintain actions and recover or receive property in state. Any executor
or administrator who has obtained letters testamentary or of administration on the estate
of a person who was not, at the time of his death, an inhabitant of this state, in any other
of the United States, and who has not obtained letters of administration thereon in this state,
as authorized by article 8 of chapter 2 of this title, may maintain civil actions and recover
or receive property in this state: (1) By recording, at any time before judgment or the receipt
of the property, a copy of his letters, duly authenticated according to the laws of the United
States, in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which such civil action is
brought or property received; or (2) By giving bond, with at least two good and sufficient
sureties, payable to and approved by such judge of probate, in such amount as he may prescribe,
to be determined with reference to the value of the property...
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43-2-502
Section 43-2-502 Filing of account, etc. - Generally. In making settlements of an administration,
the executor or administrator must proceed as follows: He must make out an account between
himself and the estate he represents, charging himself with all the assets of the deceased
which have come into his possession, except the lands, and crediting himself with all the
credits he is by law entitled to; which account, verified by his oath, must be filed with
the judge of probate of the court having jurisdiction. With such account he must also file
written evidence in his possession, on which he relies to sustain the credit side of such
account, which may consist of an affidavit or any other legal evidence, in the discretion
of the executor or administrator. He must, at the same time, file a statement, on oath, of
the names of the heirs and legatees of such estate, specifying particularly which are under
the age of 19 years; and, if any of them are persons of unsound mind, it must be...
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43-2-175
Section 43-2-175 Record of official acts. The general administrator must, from time to time,
enter, in a well-bound book to be supplied by the court of county commissioners, a full and
complete record of his official acts concerning each estate in his charge. Such book shall
be kept in the office of the judge of probate and free to the examination of all persons when
not in use. (Code 1896, §71; Code 1907, §2537; Code 1923, §5759; Code 1940, T. 61, §136.)...

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26-8-44
Section 26-8-44 Removal of property or money when minor or ward and conservator nonresidents
- Authorization generally. When the conservator and the minor or ward are both nonresidents
and the minor or ward is entitled to any property in this state or is or will be entitled
to any money from any estate, the administration of which is pending in this state, whether
such estate shall or shall not have been finally settled, and the money or property may be
removed to another state without conflict with any restriction or limitation thereupon and
without impairing the right of the minor or ward thereto, such money and property may be received
and removed to the state of the residence of the minor or ward upon application of the conservator
to the judge of probate of the county in which the property of the minor or ward or the principal
part thereof may be or in which such administration may be pending in the manner following.
(Code 1852, §2032; Code 1867, §2442; Code 1876, §2797; Code...
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43-2-256
Section 43-2-256 Compensation of administrator ad litem. Such administrator ad litem must be
allowed for his services such compensation as the judge of probate or judge of the circuit
court appointing him may direct, to be taxed and collected as part of the costs of the proceedings,
either out of the estate represented by him, or out of the general fund administered therein
or out of any party to the action who may be taxed therewith, as the court may direct. (Code
1876, §2630; Code 1886, §2289; Code 1896, §358; Code 1907, §2824; Code 1923, §6063; Code
1940, T. 61, §171.)...
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43-2-47
Section 43-2-47 Special administrator ad colligendum. (a) The judge of probate may, in any
contest respecting the validity of a will, or for the purpose of collecting the goods of a
deceased, or in any other case in which it is necessary, appoint a special administrator,
authorizing the collection and preservation by him of the goods of the deceased until letters
testamentary or of administration have been duly issued. (b) Every such special administrator
has authority to collect the goods and chattels of the estate and debts of the deceased, to
give receipts for moneys collected, to satisfy liens and mortgages paid to him and to secure
and preserve such goods and chattels at such expense as may be deemed reasonable by the probate
court; and for such purposes, he may maintain civil actions as administrator. (c) Such special
administrator may also, under the direction of the probate court, sell such goods as are perishable
or wasting, after the same have been appraised, upon such notice...
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19-3-41
Section 19-3-41 When settlements compelled; removal of trustee and appointment of successor.
If the trustee shall fail to make settlement, partial or final, as required in this article
he may be compelled to do so, by citation to be issued by the register or clerk on order of
the court, at the instance of any creditor or party interested in the trust, in all respects
as executors and administrators may be compelled to make settlements in the court of probate;
or, upon motion of a majority in value of the creditors, the court must remove such defaulting
trustee and appoint another in his stead, who may be nominated by the creditors, as provided
by this Code, for the nomination of an administrator of an insolvent estate by the creditors
thereof. (Code 1896, §4173; Code 1907, §6075; Code 1923, §10412; Code 1940, T. 58, §29.)...

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43-2-22
Section 43-2-22 Disqualification of certain persons to serve as executor or administrator.
(a) No person must be deemed a fit person to serve as executor who is under the age of 19
years, or who has been convicted of an infamous crime, or who, from intemperance, improvidence
or want of understanding, is incompetent to discharge the duties of the trust. Nor shall any
nonresident of the state be appointed as administrator unless he is at the time executor or
administrator of the same estate in some other state or territory or jurisdiction, duly qualified
under the laws of that jurisdiction. (b) If the person named in the will as sole executor
is or if all the persons named therein as executors are, from any of the causes enumerated
in subsection (a), unfit to serve as executor or executors, letters of administration, with
the will annexed, may be granted on the testator's estate, under the provisions of section
43-2-27. (Code 1852, §§1658, 1659; Code 1867, §§1976, 1977; Code 1876,...
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43-2-83
Section 43-2-83 Discharge of surety; new bond. (a) Upon the application in writing of any surety
or sureties upon the bond of an executor or administrator requesting to be discharged from
any future liability as such surety or sureties, or upon the application in writing of the
personal representative or of an heir or devisee of a deceased surety upon such bond requesting
that the estate of such deceased surety be discharged from future liability by reason of such
suretyship, the court shall give to such executor or administrator notice of such application
and require him, within 15 days after the service of the notice, to make a new bond; and upon
the failure to make such bond, such executor or administrator shall be removed and his letters
revoked; and upon such removal he shall make settlement of his administration. Any number
of persons having the right to make application under this section may join in the application.
(b) When a new bond is given under subsection (a) of this...
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12-13-1
Section 12-13-1 Jurisdiction generally; validity and presumptions to be accorded to judgments,
orders, etc., of probate courts. (a) The probate court shall have original and general jurisdiction
as to all matters mentioned in this section and shall have original and general jurisdiction
as to all other matters which may be conferred upon them by statute, unless the statute so
conferring jurisdiction expressly makes the jurisdiction special or limited. (b) The probate
court shall have original and general jurisdiction over the following matters: (1) The probate
of wills. (2) The granting of letters testamentary and of administration and the repeal or
revocation of the same. (3) All controversies in relation to the right of executorship or
of administration. (4) The settlement of accounts of executors and administrators. (5) The
sale and disposition of the real and personal property belonging to and the distribution of
intestate's estates. (6) The appointment and removal of guardians for...
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