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Terms Used In Alabama Code 43-2-512

  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • 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.

Upon final settlement, any person contesting may also show that the executor or administrator has failed to charge himself with or to account for all the assets of the decedent received by him, or that he has failed to collect the same, or any portion thereof, or that by any abuse of, or failure to discharge his trust, such assets or any portion thereof have been depreciated, injured or destroyed.