If any person named as executor in the will renounces his appointment or fails to apply for letters testamentary within 30 days after probate and any other persons named therein as executors make application for such letters and are fit persons to discharge the trust, letters testamentary must issue to them if they comply with the other requisitions of the law.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.
Chapter 2 - Administration of Estates.
Article 2 - Grant of Letters Testamentary of Administration.
Division 1 - Grant of Letters Testamentary.
Section 43-2-22 - Disqualification of Certain Persons to Serve as Executor or Administrator.
Section 43-2-23 - Issuance of Letters to Married Woman.
Section 43-2-24 - Supplemental Letters for Minors and Married Women Upon Removal of Disability.
Section 43-2-25 - Procedure for Renouncing Appointment.
Section 43-2-28 - Death of Sole or Surviving Executor.
Section 43-2-29 - Grant of Letters Testamentary After Revocation of Letters of Administration.