6-6-225
Section 6-6-225 Questions on administration of trust or estate of a decedent, etc. Any person
interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, or other fiduciary,
creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or cestui que trust, in the administration
of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, infant, incompetent, or insolvent may have a declaration
of rights or legal relations in respect thereto: (1) To ascertain any class of creditors,
devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin, or other; (2) To direct the executors, administrators,
or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or
(3) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including
questions of construction of wills and other writings. (Acts 1935, No. 355, p. 777; Code 1940,
T. 7, §159.)...
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43-2-552
Section 43-2-552 Decree for balance - Generally. If there remains any act of administration
to be done, other than making settlement and distribution or payment of legacies, and there
is a remaining or succeeding executor or administrator, a decree must be rendered in his favor
for the amount found due on such settlement, and for the delivery of any personal property
in the hands of the executor or administrator whose authority has ceased or, if dead, of his
personal representative; but if more than six months have elapsed from the original grant
of letters and there remains no other act of administration to be done than making distribution
or payment of legacies, and the estate is solvent, the court must at once proceed to decree
distribution or payment of legacies directly to those entitled; or, if in the case last mentioned,
there are money assets in the hands of the outgoing executor or administrator, or, if dead,
of his personal representative, in excess of a sum sufficient for...
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43-2-555
Section 43-2-555 Stating account or compelling settlement by attachment. If such outgoing executor
or administrator or, if dead, his personal representative or, in case of his removal from
the state, his sureties fail to make settlement within the time required by this division,
the court may, of its own motion or on the application of any party in interest, compel him
or his sureties to do so by attachment, or may state the account against him or his sureties
from the materials on file or such other information as may be accessible to the court, charging
him or his personal representative or his sureties with such assets as may have come into
the hands of such executor or administrator. (Code 1852, §1881; Code 1867, §2234; Code 1876,
§2592; Code 1886, §2178; Code 1896, §246; Code 1907, §2697; Acts 1923, No. 492, p. 655;
Code 1923, §5930; Code 1940, T. 61, §325.)...
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43-2-707
Section 43-2-707 Declaration of insolvency. If no person contests the correctness of the report
or if the issue is decided against contestant, the court must declare the estate insolvent
and must make an order for the executor or administrator on a day therein named, not less
than 30 nor more than 60 days therefrom, to appear and make a settlement of his administration;
and of such order, and of the day appointed for such settlement, notice must be given by the
judge of probate as is required by section 43-2-704. (Code 1852, §§1838, 1839; Code 1867,
§§2187, 2188; Code 1876, §§2559, 2560; Code 1886, §2230; Code 1896, §298; Code 1907,
§2763; Code 1923, §6002; Code 1940, T. 61, §389.)...
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43-2-811
Section 43-2-811 Special plea of insolvency. The executor or administrator may, at any time
before judgment, plead specially that the estate has been declared insolvent; and, in such
case, the other issues must be tried and judgment entered thereon. (Code 1852, §1859; Code
1867, §2208; Code 1876, §2580; Code 1886, §2250; Code 1896, §318; Code 1907, §2794; Code
1923, §6033; Code 1940, T. 61, §420.)...
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12-11-41
Section 12-11-41 Removal of administration of estates from probate court. The administration
of any estate may be removed from the probate court to the circuit court at any time before
a final settlement thereof, by any heir, devisee, legatee, distributee, executor, administrator
or administrator with the will annexed of any such estate, without assigning any special equity;
and an order of removal must be made by the court, upon the filing of a sworn petition by
any such heir, devisee, legatee, distributee, executor, administrator or administrator with
the will annexed of any such estate, reciting that the petitioner is such heir, devisee, legatee,
distributee, executor, administrator or administrator with the will annexed and that, in the
opinion of the petitioner, such estate can be better administered in the circuit court than
in the probate court. (Acts 1915, No. 680, p. 738; Code 1923, §6478; Code 1940, T. 13, §139.)...

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19-3-35
Section 19-3-35 Duty of trustee to render account. Within three months after the expiration
of the time allowed for the filing of objections to claims, the trustee must render, under
oath, to the register or clerk an account charging himself with all the moneys of the trust
estate which have come into his possession, or with which he is chargeable, and crediting
himself with all sums to which he is entitled as credits, and must file therewith the vouchers
on which he relies to sustain such credits. A similar account must be filed every six months
thereafter. (Code 1896, §4167; Code 1907, §6069; Code 1923, §10406; Code 1940, T. 58, §23.)...

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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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43-2-194
Section 43-2-194 Manner of administering and settling estate. When letters are granted to a
nonresident executor or administrator, the assets of the estate upon which such letters are
granted, which may be within this state at the date of such letters, shall in all respects
be administered and settled as if such letters had been issued to a resident executor or administrator.
(Code 1876, §2381; Code 1886, §2040; Code 1896, §84; Code 1907, §2560; Code 1923, §5783;
Code 1940, T. 61, §145.)...
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43-2-272
Section 43-2-272 Duty of probate court to grant letters of administration upon vacancy. (a)
If the sole executor or all the executors die, resign or are removed, the probate court having
jurisdiction of the estate must grant letters of administration, with will annexed, to the
person entitled thereto under section 43-2-27. (b) If an administrator dies, resigns or is
removed, the probate court having jurisdiction of the estate must grant letters of administration
of the goods and chattels, rights and credits, unadministered, to the person entitled thereto,
as in cases of intestacy. (Code 1852, §1720; Code 1867, §2043; Code 1876, §2412; Code 1886,
§2064; Code 1896, §111; Code 1907, §2533; Code 1923, §5755; Code 1940, T. 61, §175.)...

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