If no exceptions are filed and sustained to such report of the commissioners setting apart exemptions and it is determined that the property set apart was all the property owned by the absentee spouse at the time he or she left and that he or she left less property than was exempt to a surviving spouse and minor children of decedents, the title to the property so set aside, whether real or personal, shall vest for the life of the deserted spouse or the minority of the children, whichever may last terminate.
Structure Code of Alabama
Article 2 - Exemptions From Administration and Payment of Debts.
Division 2 - Setting Apart Exemptions to Surviving Spouse and Minor Children.
Section 6-10-80 - Appraisers - Issuance of Commission.
Section 6-10-81 - Appraisers - Duty to Set Apart Exempt Personal Property; Return of Report.
Section 6-10-82 - Appraisers - Report of Homestead Appraisement.
Section 6-10-83 - Proceedings to Set Apart Homestead When Same Exceeds Value Allowed.
Section 6-10-85 - How Exemption in Lieu of Homestead Claimed and Set Apart.
Section 6-10-89 - Report of Appraisers or Commissioners - Proceedings When Report Set Aside.
Section 6-10-91 - Report of Appraisers or Commissioners - Appeal From Decree on Exceptions.
Section 6-10-92 - Exceptions to Report of Appraisers That Homestead Does Not Exceed Allowance.
Section 6-10-93 - Confirmation of Reports When No Exceptions Filed.
Section 6-10-95 - Reduced Homestead Incapable of Allotment - Sale - When Allowed.
Section 6-10-99 - Payment by Devisees to Clear Property of Homestead Right.
Section 6-10-102 - Effect of Removal From Homestead.
Section 6-10-103 - Commissioners - Qualifications; Oath.
Section 6-10-104 - Commissioners - Compensation.
Section 6-10-105 - Recordation of Judgments Allotting Homestead Exemptions; Fee Therefor.