8-6-140
Section 8-6-140 Definitions. For the purposes of this article, the following words have the following meanings unless the context otherwise requires: (1) BENEFICIARY FORM. A registration of a security which indicates the present owner of the security and the intention of the owner regarding the person who will become the owner of the security upon the death of the owner. (2) DEVISEE. Any person designated in a will to receive a disposition of real or personal property. (3) HEIRS. Those persons, including the surviving spouse, who are entitled under the statutes of intestate succession to the property of a decedent. (4) PERSON. An individual, a corporation, an organization, or other legal entity. (5) PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE. Includes executor, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status. (6) PROPERTY. Includes both real and personal property or any interest therein...
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19-3A-102
Section 19-3A-102 Definitions. As used in this chapter, the following terms are defined as follows: (1) ACCOUNTING PERIOD. A calendar year unless another 12-month period is selected by a fiduciary. The term includes a portion of a calendar year or other 12-month period that begins when an income interest begins or ends when an income interest ends. (2) BENEFICIARY. Includes, in the case of a decedent's estate, an heir, legatee, and devisee and, in the case of a trust, an income beneficiary and a remainder beneficiary. (3) FIDUCIARY. A personal representative or a trustee. The term includes an executor, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, and a person performing substantially the same function. (4) INCOME. Money or property that a fiduciary receives as current return from a principal asset. The term also includes a portion of receipts from a sale, exchange, or liquidation of a principal asset, to the extent provided in Article 4. (5) INCOME...
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43-2-833
Section 43-2-833 General duties; relation and liability to persons interested in estate; standing to sue. (a) A personal representative is a fiduciary. Except as otherwise provided by the terms of the will, the personal representative shall observe the standards in dealing with the estate that would be observed by a prudent person dealing with the property of another. If the personal representative has special skills or is named personal representative on the basis of representations of special skills or expertise, the personal representative is under a duty to use those skills. A personal representative is under a duty to settle and distribute the estate of the decedent in accordance with the terms of any probated and effective will and Title 43, and as expeditiously and efficiently as is consistent with the best interests of the estate. The personal representative shall use the authority conferred upon personal representatives by law, the terms of the will, if any, and any order in...
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10A-5-6.04
Section 10A-5-6.04 Death or incompetency of member. REPEALED IN THE 2014 REGULAR SESSION BY ACT 2014-144 EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2017. (a) Except as otherwise provided in the governing documents: (1) If a member who is an individual dies or if a court of competent jurisdiction adjudges a member to be incompetent to manage the member's person or property, the member's personal representative, conservator, legal representative, heirs, or legatees may exercise all the member's financial rights for the purpose of settling the member's estate or administering the member's property, including any power the member had to transfer the membership interest. (2) If a member is a corporation, limited liability company, trust, general partnership, limited partnership, registered limited liability partnership, custodianship, or other entity and is dissolved or terminated, the financial rights of that member may be exercised by the legal representative or successor of that member. (b) The personal...
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35-5A-17
Section 35-5A-17 Exemption of third person from liability for good faith dealings with custodian. A third person in good faith and without court order may act on the instructions of or otherwise deal with any person purporting to make a transfer or purporting to act in the capacity of a custodian and, in the absence of knowledge, is not responsible for determining: (1) The validity of the purported custodian's designation; (2) The propriety of, or the authority under this chapter for, any act of the purported custodian; (3) The validity or propriety under this chapter of any instrument or instructions executed or given either by the person purporting to make a transfer or by the purported custodian; or (4) The propriety of the application of any property of the minor delivered to the purported custodian. (Acts 1986, No. 86-453, p. 819, ยง16.)...
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43-2-696
Section 43-2-696 Effect of transfer pursuant to affidavit. The person making payment, delivery, transfer or issuance of personal property or evidence thereof pursuant to the affidavit prescribed in section 43-2-694 shall be discharged and released to the same extent as if made to a personal representative of the decedent, and he shall not be required to see the application thereof or to inquire into the truth of any statement in the affidavit if made by any other person. If any person to whom such affidavit is delivered refuses to pay, deliver, transfer or issue any personal property or evidence thereof, it may be recovered or its payment, delivery, transfer or issuance compelled in an action brought for such purpose by or on behalf of the person entitled thereto under sections 43-2-692 and 43-2-695 upon proof of the defeasible right declared by such sections. Any person to whom payment, delivery, transfer or issuance is made shall be answerable and accountable therefor to any personal...
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41-10-355
Section 41-10-355 Members of authority; officers; payment of bonds of authority; quorum; vacancies; compensation; record of proceedings and use thereof as evidence; meetings. The applicants named in the application and their respective successors in office shall constitute the members of the authority. The Governor shall be the president of the authority, the commissioner shall be the vice-president thereof, and the Director of Finance shall be the secretary thereof. The State Treasurer shall be treasurer of the authority, shall act as custodian of the funds of the authority, and shall pay the principal of and interest on the bonds of the authority out of the funds hereinafter provided for; provided, that the State Treasurer may designate one or more banks either within or without the state as the paying agent with respect to any series of bonds issued under this article. The members of the authority shall constitute all the members of the board of directors of the authority, and the...
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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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7-9A-208
Section 7-9A-208 Additional duties of secured party having control of collateral. (a) Applicability of section. This section applies to cases in which there is no outstanding secured obligation and the secured party is not committed to make advances, incur obligations, or otherwise give value. (b) Duties of secured party after receiving demand from debtor. Within 10 days after receiving an authenticated demand by the debtor: (1) a secured party having control of a deposit account under Section 7-9A-104(a)(2) shall send to the bank with which the deposit account is maintained an authenticated statement that releases the bank from any further obligation to comply with instructions originated by the secured party; (2) a secured party having control of a deposit account under Section 7-9A-104(a)(3) shall: (A) pay the debtor the balance on deposit in the deposit account; or (B) transfer the balance on deposit into a deposit account in the debtor's name; (3) a secured party, other than a...
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40-15-7
Section 40-15-7 Nonresident decedents. (a) Except as herein otherwise provided, all of the provisions of this chapter shall be applicable to so much of the estates of nonresident decedents as is subject to estate tax under the act of Congress in effect at the time of the death of decedent as consists of real estate or tangible personal property located within this state or other items of property or interest therein lawfully subject to the imposition of an estate tax by the State of Alabama. (b) In assessing the tax upon any real estate or tangible property located within this state belonging to the estate of a nonresident decedent, which shall pass by will, devise or by the laws of intestacy, the Department of Revenue shall determine the tax due to be such proportion of the federal estate tax as would be leviable upon an estate of similar taxable net value, less that proportion of any exemption to which the estate is entitled, which the actual value of the real estate and tangible...
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