Tennessee Code 30-2-612 – Balance payable to clerk’s office – Award of execution
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 30-2-612
- Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
- Personal representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Probate: Proving a will
- Probate court: means the court having jurisdiction over the administration of the estates of decedents. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
- 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.
After the settlement of any administrator’s or executor‘s account, the probate court may compel the personal representative to pay into the office of the clerk the balance found against the personal representative, and may, on motion of the clerk or any surviving spouse, distributee, or legatee, after twenty (20) days’ notice to the personal representative, award summarily an execution against the representative and the personal representative’s sureties for the amount of the balance, as in case of a judgment at law, and when any specific thing is to be done, the probate court may compel the representative, by an order, to perform it, and by process of contempt in case of refusal.