The state may enforce its right to any personal property to which it is entitled under the provisions of this chapter by action against any person into whose possession the same may come; and, if any personal representative pays any money or delivers any property to which the state is, under the provisions of this chapter, entitled, to any person not authorized to receive the same, such personal representative and his sureties are liable to the state for the amount of such money or value of such property and interest thereon from the time of such payment or delivery.
Structure Code of Alabama
Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.
Section 43-6-2 - Notice by Representative.
Section 43-6-3 - Contents of Notice.
Section 43-6-4 - Disposition of Personalty When No Heir Appears.
Section 43-6-5 - Disposition of Real Estate When No Heir Appears.
Section 43-6-6 - Decree Against Personal Representative for Failure to Pay Over Proceeds.
Section 43-6-7 - Payment of Receipts to State Treasurer.
Section 43-6-8 - Action by State to Recover Personal Property Distributed Without Authority.
Section 43-6-9 - Duty of Probate Judge to Attend to Interest of State.