43-2-393
Section 43-2-393 When executor or administrator may give note, etc., to extend or settle debt. Any executor or administrator, by authority of the probate court given on his written application, may, in his representative capacity, give his note, bond or bill for the purpose of extending or settling a debt of the decedent, or settling a debt contracted by such representative for articles, or for work and labor for the estate; and for such note, bond or bill the estate is liable, and the executor or administrator is not personally liable. But the heirs, devisees, distributees or legatees must have 10 days' notice of such application. (Code 1867, §2066; Code 1876, §2432; Code 1886, §2091; Code 1896, §141; Code 1907, §2605; Code 1923, §5830; Code 1940, T. 61, §226.)...
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43-2-155
Section 43-2-155 Right of succeeding representative to execution. Any subsequent administrator, or administrator with the will annexed, may have execution on any judgment recovered by any person who preceded him in the administration of the same estate, without reviving the same or without proceeding to notify the defendant in such judgment. (Code 1852, §1926; Code 1867, §2285; Code 1876, §2623; Code 1886, §2279; Code 1896, §348; Code 1907, §2815; Code 1923, §6054; Code 1940, T. 61, §131.)...
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43-2-61
Section 43-2-61 Manner of giving notice. Notice, as prescribed in section 43-2-60, must be given: (1) By first-class mail addressed to their last known address, or by other mechanism reasonably calculated to provide actual notice, to all persons, firms, and corporations having claims against the decedent, who are known or who are reasonably ascertainable by the personal representative within six months from the grant of letters; and (2) By publishing a notice once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county in which the letters were granted or, if none is published in the county, in the one published nearest to the courthouse thereof or in an adjoining county. (Code 1852, §1735; Code 1867, §2058; Code 1876, §2427; Code 1886, §2076; Code 1896, §123; Code 1907, §2587; Code 1923, §5812; Code 1940, T. 61, §94; Acts 1989, No. 89-811, p. 1618, §2.)...
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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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6-10-86
Section 6-10-86 Report of appraisers or commissioners - Exceptions; notice of time set for hearing thereon. When any homestead or other exemption has been allotted or set apart by the appraisers or by commissioners, the personal representative, surviving spouse, minor child or children, or other person in interest feeling aggrieved may, within 30 days after the making of the report, file written exceptions thereto, stating the grounds of such exceptions. Thereupon the court must fix a day for the hearing of the exceptions, of which 10 days' notice must be given by personal service, if the adverse parties reside in the state or, if they reside out of the state, by publication in some newspaper published in the county. If the exceptions are filed by the surviving spouse and minor child or children, or either, such notice must be served on the personal representative, but if filed by the personal representative or other person, the notice must be served on the surviving spouse, if there...
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43-2-704
Section 43-2-704 Time for hearing; notice of hearing. The probate court, on the filing of such report and statements, must appoint a day, not less than 30 nor more than 60 days therefrom, to hear and determine the same and must give notice to the creditors of and to all persons interested in the estate of the filing of the report and the day appointed to hear and determine the same by publication, once a week for three successive weeks, in some newspaper published in the county or, if none is published therein, in a newspaper published nearest to the courthouse of such county, and by posting such notice at the courthouse door for the same length of time and by forwarding such notice by mail to all creditors and to all adult heirs or distributees whose places of residence are known, and shall appoint guardians ad litem for all heirs or distributees who are minors or of unsound mind. Upon the day appointed or on any other day to which the hearing is continued, the court must proceed to...
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43-8-291
Section 43-8-291 Right to disclaim interest in property. (a) A person, or the representative of a deceased, incapacitated person, protected person, incompetent or ward, who is an heir, next of kin, devisee, legatee, grantee, donee, surviving joint tenant, person succeeding to a disclaimed interest, beneficiary under a testamentary or nontestamentary instrument or contract, or appointee under a power of appointment exercised by a testamentary or nontestamentary instrument, or to whom any property or interest therein devolves, by whatever means, may disclaim in whole or in part the right of succession to any property or interest therein by delivering or filing a written disclaimer under this article. (b) A surviving joint tenant may disclaim as a separate interest any property or interest therein devolving to him by right of survivorship. A surviving joint tenant may disclaim the entire interest in any property or interest therein that is the subject of a joint tenancy devolving to him,...
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5-17-16
Section 5-17-16 Disposition of shares or deposit account of deceased person. Whenever a person shall die leaving a share or deposit account in a credit union not exceeding ten thousand dollars ($10,000), the credit union having the share or deposit account may discharge itself from liability thereafter by paying the funds in the share or deposit account to the widow or surviving husband of the deceased or, if there is no widow or surviving husband, to the persons having the actual custody or control of the minor child or children of the deceased; provided, that such person, if not the legal guardian, shall execute to the probate judge of the county a bond in the penal sum of double the amount of such deposit for the faithful accounting of the money so received, which shall be approved by the probate judge, or, if there is no minor child or children, to the person or persons who under the laws of Alabama are the heirs and inherit the personal property of the deceased. No such payment is...
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6-5-466
Section 6-5-466 Revival in case of death of one or more defendants jointly sued. (a) The death of one or more defendants jointly sued does not, as to the defendant dying, abate a claim upon which an action has been filed if the claim survives; but such a claim may be revived against the proper representative of such defendant and such representative and the surviving defendant or defendants may be proceeded against jointly or severally, at the election of the plaintiff. (b) Under this section, the judgment entered must be several, but against a personal representative, if he objects, judgment must not be entered until after the expiration of six months from the grant of letters testamentary or of administration. (c) Under this section, the satisfaction of one judgment is, as to the plaintiff, a satisfaction of all, except as to costs; but if requested, the plaintiff must assign, without recourse on him, the judgment against a principal debtor to the party from whom satisfaction is...
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11-48-25
Section 11-48-25 Effect and correction of defects or errors in notice. If there is any defect in said notice or proceedings before or subsequent to said notice with respect to one or more interested persons, the same shall not affect such notice or proceedings except insofar as it may touch the interest or property of such person or persons and shall not avail any other person concerned therein. In the case of such defect, supplementary proceedings of the same general character as those prescribed in this article may be had in order to supply such defect. (Code 1907, §1380; Code 1923, §2195; Acts 1927, No. 639, p. 753; Code 1940, T. 37, §534.)...
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