On the day appointed for auditing such account, any person may attend on the part of such executor or administrator or, if dead, of his personal representative or, in case of his removal from the state, his sureties and show that he is entitled to additional credits; and any person interested may attend and contest any item of such account or in any previous account, or may show assets not accounted for, or that such executor or administrator has failed to collect any assets from want of due diligence, or that, by any abuse of or failure to discharge his trust, such assets, or any portion thereof, have been injured, destroyed or depreciated; and, in case of such proof, the executor or administrator or, if dead, his personal representative or, in case of his removal from the state, his sureties must be charged therewith. On such settlements, decrees must be rendered as upon like settlements voluntarily made.
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.