43-2-25
Section 43-2-25 Procedure for renouncing appointment. Any person named as executor in a will may renounce such appointment by appearing before the judge of probate and declaring such renunciation, which must be entered of record; or such person may renounce his appointment by an instrument in writing executed by him and acknowledged before an officer authorized to take and certify acknowledgments to conveyances, whether within or beyond the state; and such instrument must be filed and recorded in the office of the judge of probate of the county in which the will is probated. (Code 1852, §1662; Code 1867, §1980; Code 1876, §2344; Code 1886, §2009; Code 1896, §51; Code 1907, §2513; Code 1923, §5735; Code 1940, T. 61, §74.)...
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36-6-10
Section 36-6-10 Voluntary diminution of salary. It shall be lawful for any person who is an officeholder in or of the State of Alabama or any county or municipality thereof or holding any civil office of profit under this state or any county or municipality thereof whose compensation, salary or fees is fixed by law for his services and which compensation, salary or fees cannot be or shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which he shall have been elected or appointed under the provisions of Sections 118 or 281 of the Constitution of Alabama or Amendment No. 328 thereof to voluntarily diminish the compensation, salary or fees fixed by law to which he is entitled to such extent as he may desire. Any person desiring voluntarily to diminish the salary, fees or compensation to which he is entitled and which is fixed by law shall sign and acknowledge an instrument in writing designating the office or position held by him and stating or declaring the amount to which he...
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43-8-292
Section 43-8-292 Filing and delivery of disclaimer. (a) Except as provided in subsection (c) of this section, if the property or interest has devolved to the disclaimant under a testamentary instrument or by the laws of intestacy, the disclaimer shall be filed, as to a present interest, not later than nine months after the death of the deceased owner or deceased donee of a power of appointment and, if of a future interest, not later than nine months after the event determining that the taker of the property or interest has become finally ascertained and his interest is indefeasibly vested. The disclaimer shall be filed in the probate court of the county in which proceedings for the administration of the estate of the deceased owner or deceased donee of the power have been commenced or, if they have not been commenced, in which they could be commenced. A copy of the disclaimer shall be delivered in person or mailed by registered or certified mail to any personal representative or other...
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12-19-90
Section 12-19-90 Judge of probate - Schedule of fees. (a) The following fees for service provided by the probate offices shall be charged and paid into the county treasury or to the judge of probate as may be authorized or required by law: (1) Probate of will of not more than five pages, whether contested or not, with three certified copies of letters and including final settlement when not more than 10 pages. An additional charge of $3.00 per page for wills over five pages in length and for final settlements in excess of 10 pages in length shall be made ..... $45.00 (2) Grant of letters of administration with three certified copies of letters of administration and including final settlement when not more than 10 pages (when over 10 pages an additional charge of $3.00 per page) ..... 45.00 (3) Grant of letters of guardianship or conservatorship, three certified copies ..... 20.00 (4) Partial or final settlement of guardianship or conservatorship ..... 15.00 (5) Each additional...
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35-4-72
Section 35-4-72 Improperly acknowledged or recorded instruments as evidence. When a validly executed instrument, not properly acknowledged and recorded, has for 10 years been of record in the office of the judge of probate, the original or a duly certified transcript thereof shall have the same force and effect as evidence as such original or transcript would have had had such instrument been duly acknowledged and recorded. (Code 1907, §3382; Code 1923, §6876; Code 1940, T. 47, §119.)...
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40-22-2
Section 40-22-2 Mortgages, deeds of trust, etc., generally. No mortgage, deed of trust, contract of conditional sale, or other instrument of like character which is given to secure the payment of any debt which conveys any real or personal property situated within this state or any interest therein or any security agreement or financing statement provided for by the Uniform Commercial Code, except a security agreement or a financing statement relating solely to security interests in accounts, contract rights, or general intangibles, as such terms are defined in the Uniform Commercial Code, and except for the re-recordation of corrected mortgages, deeds, or instruments executed for the purpose of perfecting the title to real or personal property, specifically, but not limited to, corrections of maturity dates thereof, shall be received for record or for filing in the office of any probate judge of this state unless the following privilege or license taxes shall have been paid upon such...
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35-4-27
Section 35-4-27 Acknowledgment - Proof of official seal. All deeds, powers of attorney and other instruments of conveyance, affidavits or contracts purporting to be acknowledged, proved or verified as prescribed by law, and which have been recorded or may hereafter be recorded in the office of the judge of probate of the proper county in this state, and transcripts thereof from such record shall be prima facie evidence that the seal of such officer acknowledging or attesting such instrument was his official seal and that it was affixed by him in his official capacity; and all such instruments and certified copies thereof shall have the same force and effect and shall be received in evidence in any court in this state without further proof of the due execution of such instrument or proof of the seal of any officer so certifying or attesting and that the same was affixed by him as his official seal, in his official capacity, whether he be an officer of this state or of any other state,...
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35-10-24
Section 35-10-24 Partial payments - Entry by execution and delivery of separate instrument. (a) Any person required by the provisions of this article, and more particularly Sections 35-10-21 through 35-10-24 thereof, to make any entry of partial payment on the margin of the record may fully discharge his obligation to make such entry by executing a separate instrument which properly identifies such mortgage, deed of trust, or other encumbrance, and which clearly states the information required otherwise to be entered on the record or margin thereof, and by delivering such instrument or depositing the same in the United States mail properly stamped and addressed, to the person who requests such entry, but the person requested to make such entry shall not be required to file such separate instrument for record; provided, that such separate instrument so to be furnished shall be so prepared and acknowledged that the same shall be admitted to record in the office of the judge of probate...
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12-13-43
Section 12-13-43 Maintenance of general direct and reverse indexes of instruments filed for record; liability of probate judge for failure to comply with provisions of section. The probate judge of each county in this state shall keep in his office four well-bound books of suitable size and grade of paper in which to make a general direct and a general reverse index of each instrument filed for record in his office, and two of said books shall be used for conveyances of real property and two for conveyances of personal property and all other instruments entitled to record in his office. In the general direct indexes he shall enter, in regular alphabetical order, under appropriate title, the name of each maker of the instrument, the name of each person to whom made, the date and character of such instrument and the date filed for record; and, in the general reverse indexes, in like alphabetical order, under its appropriate title, he shall enter the name of each person to whom the...
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35-4-435
Section 35-4-435 Notice requirements for existing private transfer fee obligations. (a) The payee of a private transfer fee obligation imposed prior to May 25, 2011, shall record, prior to December 31, 2011, against the real property subject to the private transfer fee obligation, a separate document in the office of the judge of probate for each county in which the real property is located which complies with all of the following requirements: (1) The title of the document shall be "Notice of Private Transfer Fee Obligation" in at least 14-point boldface type. (2) The amount, if the private transfer fee is a flat amount, or the percentage of the sales price constituting the cost of the private transfer fee, or such other basis by which the private transfer fee is to be calculated. (3) If the real property is residential property, actual dollar-cost examples of the private transfer fee for a home priced at two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000), five hundred thousand dollars...
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