2021 Code of Alabama
Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.
Chapter 2 - Administration of Estates.
Article 19 - Insolvent Estates.
Division 2 - Nomination and Election of Administrators of Insolvent Estates.
Section 43-2-723 - Discretion of Court Upon Failure of Creditors to Attend.

Universal Citation: AL Code § 43-2-723 (2021)

Section 43-2-723

Discretion of court upon failure of creditors to attend.

If none of the creditors attend at the time appointed or if, from any other cause, no appointment of such administrator is made, the court may, in its discretion, continue the former executor or administrator or may appoint any fit person, or the general administrator of the county or, should there be none, the sheriff of the county, to administer the estate according to the provisions of this division.

(Code 1852, §1845; Code 1867, §2194; Code 1876, §2566; Code 1886, §2235; Code 1896, §303; Code 1907, §2771; Code 1923, §6010; Code 1940, T. 61, §397.)

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