In all cases where exemptions of real or personal property have been reported by appraisers or commissioners to the surviving spouse and minor child or children, or either, it shall be the duty of the probate judge, immediately upon the filing of the report of such appraisers or commissioners, to give 10 days' notice thereof and of the day set for the hearing of said report to the next of kin of decedent, which date of hearing shall not be less than 30 days from the filing of said report. If any of said next of kin are nonresidents of the state, said notice shall be given by publication once a week for three successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county or, if none is published in the county, by posting such notice for said length of time at the courthouse door and three other public places in the county.
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.