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Title 6 - CIVIL PRACTICE.
Chapter 10 - EXEMPTIONS.
Article 1 - Exemptions From Levy and Sale Under Process.
Division 2 - Claim and Contest of Exemptions.
Section 6-10-40 - Sale of land and separation of homestead interest from that of alienee.
Universal Citation: AL Code § 6-10-40 (2018)
Section 6-10-40Sale of land and separation of homestead interest from that of alienee.
When the homestead, after being reduced to the lowest practicable area, exceeds $5,000 in value and the husband or wife has aliened the same by deed, mortgage, or other conveyance without the voluntary signature and assent of the spouse, shown and acknowledged as required by law, the alienor or, if he or she fails to act, the spouse or, if there is no spouse or if he or she fails to act, their minor child or children may, by filing a complaint, have the land sold and the homestead interest separated from that of the alienee.
(Code 1876, §2832; Code 1886, §2538; Code 1896, §2064; Code 1907, §4191; Code 1923, §7913; Code 1940, T. 7, §656; Acts 1980, No. 80-569, p. 879, §6.)
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