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Home » US Law » 2022 Code of Alabama » Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates. » Chapter 2 - Administration of Estates. » Article 8 - Nonresidents as Executors and Administrators.

Section 43-2-190 – Applications for Letters Testamentary or of Administration.

Section 43-2-190 Applications for letters testamentary or of administration. The application filed by a nonresident for letters testamentary or of administration must set forth his name and post-office address; but the address so given may, at any time, be changed by such nonresident executor or administrator, such change to be shown by a written statement […]

Section 43-2-191 – Appointment of Nonresident Executor – Generally.

Section 43-2-191 Appointment of nonresident executor – Generally. Judges of probate are authorized to issue letters testamentary to persons named as executors in wills regularly probated who are nonresidents of this state, upon like bond and surety and upon the same terms, conditions and requirements as are required by law of citizens of this state. […]

Section 43-2-193 – Appointment of Nonresident Administrator.

Section 43-2-193 Appointment of nonresident administrator. When any nonresident dies, leaving assets in this state, if no application for letters of administration is made by a relative or creditor entitled thereto, an administrator of his estate, appointed by the competent authority of the state or territory of his domicile, shall be entitled to letters of […]

Section 43-2-194 – Manner of Administering and Settling Estate.

Section 43-2-194 Manner of administering and settling estate. When letters are granted to a nonresident executor or administrator, the assets of the estate upon which such letters are granted, which may be within this state at the date of such letters, shall in all respects be administered and settled as if such letters had been […]

Section 43-2-196 – Right to Maintain Actions.

Section 43-2-196 Right to maintain actions. Nonresident executors or administrators appointed under the provisions of this article may, by giving security for costs as required by law of nonresidents, bring and maintain civil actions in the courts of this state in all respects as may be done by resident executors and administrators. (Code 1896, §85; […]

Section 43-2-197 – Liability to Actions; Venue.

Section 43-2-197 Liability to actions; venue. Civil actions may be brought against nonresident executors and administrators in their representative character, in all cases, in the county in which letters were granted. (Code 1896, §86; Code 1907, §2562; Code 1923, §5785; Code 1940, T. 61, §147.)

Section 43-2-198 – Service of Process – Generally.

Section 43-2-198 Service of process – Generally. Service of summons or other process may be made upon nonresident executors and administrators personally if found within the state. Such service may be made in any case by personal service upon them if found within the state, or by filing in the probate court granting letters a […]

Section 43-2-199 – Service of Process – Citations or Notices, etc.; Return of Process.

Section 43-2-199 Service of process — Citations or notices, etc.; return of process. Citations to make settlements and other citations or notices to such nonresident executors and administrators, and all writs or legal process, including executions on decrees and judgments, may be served by depositing a copy in a sealed envelope, postage prepaid, in a […]

Section 43-2-200 – Liability of Sureties to Execution.

Section 43-2-200 Liability of sureties to execution. Upon the return of an execution as provided in section 43-2-199 and, further, that no property of such executor or administrator, or property not sufficient to satisfy the same, is found in the county in which the execution is issued, the sureties on his bond shall be liable […]