(a) The executor or administrator must make annual settlements of such estates, as required in other cases, and in such settlements he must show how such estate has been managed, crops made, expenses incurred and the disposition of all moneys received; and he must also show the amounts appropriated and expended for each and every person entitled to any distribution from such estate.
(b) The accounts and vouchers, evidence and statement of the heirs and legatees must be filed, notice given and contest made, in the same manner as on annual settlements in other cases.
(c) Such settlement may be compelled by attachment, or the probate court may proceed in the same manner as in other cases, when an executor or administrator, being cited to make a settlement, fails to do so.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.
Chapter 2 - Administration of Estates.
Article 14 - Keeping Estates Together.
Section 43-2-330 - Authorization by Probate Court to Keep Estate Together; Term.
Section 43-2-331 - Extension of Time Upon Showing of Good Cause.
Section 43-2-332 - When Distributed Share Kept and Worked With Undivided Portion of Estate.
Section 43-2-333 - Payment of Profits to Share Owners.
Section 43-2-334 - Order Authorizing Hiring of Laborers - Generally.
Section 43-2-335 - Order Authorizing Hiring of Laborers - Petition; Notice and Hearing.
Section 43-2-336 - Cultivation Under Direction of Executor or Administrator.
Section 43-2-337 - Preceding Sections Not to Be Construed So as to Conflict With Will.
Section 43-2-338 - Annual Settlements.
Section 43-2-339 - Certain Rights Not Affected by Provisions of Article.