If such outgoing executor or administrator or, if dead, his personal representative or, in case of his removal from the state, his sureties fail to make settlement within the time required by this division, the court may, of its own motion or on the application of any party in interest, compel him or his sureties to do so by attachment, or may state the account against him or his sureties from the materials on file or such other information as may be accessible to the court, charging him or his personal representative or his sureties with such assets as may have come into the hands of such executor or administrator.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.
Chapter 2 - Administration of Estates.
Article 18 - Settlements and Distributions.
Division 3 - Compelling Settlement of Executor or Administrator Whose Authority Has Ceased.
Section 43-2-551 - Making Succeeding Executor or Administrator Party to Settlement.
Section 43-2-552 - Decree for Balance - Generally.
Section 43-2-554 - When Execution May Be Stayed.
Section 43-2-555 - Stating Account or Compelling Settlement by Attachment.
Section 43-2-557 - Proceedings on Final Settlement of Account.
Section 43-2-558 - Setting Aside Decree.