Alabama Code 26-5-18. Enforcement of orders or decrees of probate court against conservator, etc
Terms Used In Alabama Code 26-5-18
- Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
- Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
- Judgement: The official decision of a court finally determining the respective rights and claims of the parties to a suit.
- Probate: Proving a will
- Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
The court of probate may, by attachment, compel a conservator to obey its orders or decrees, and all final decrees rendered against a conservator or against the personal representative of the conservator on a final settlement have the force and effect of a judgement at law, on which execution may issue against the conservator or his or her personal representative and against the sureties of the conservator, whether the principal has signed the bond or not, whether such settlement is voluntary or involuntary and whether such settlement is made by the conservator while living or by his or her personal representative after his or her death. Process of garnishment may issue from the court of probate upon such decrees in like cases and manner as it may issue on judgments in courts of record and may, in like manner, be prosecuted to judgment against the garnishee.