Alabama Code 43-2-557. Proceedings on final settlement of account
Terms Used In Alabama Code 43-2-557
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- 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
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
On the day appointed for auditing such account, any person may attend on the part of such executor or administrator or, if dead, of his personal representative or, in case of his removal from the state, his sureties and show that he is entitled to additional credits; and any person interested may attend and contest any item of such account or in any previous account, or may show assets not accounted for, or that such executor or administrator has failed to collect any assets from want of due diligence, or that, by any abuse of or failure to discharge his trust, such assets, or any portion thereof, have been injured, destroyed or depreciated; and, in case of such proof, the executor or administrator or, if dead, his personal representative or, in case of his removal from the state, his sureties must be charged therewith. On such settlements, decrees must be rendered as upon like settlements voluntarily made.