Terms Used In Alabama Code 26-5-39

  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.

If such conservator or personal representative fails to appear and file his or her accounts and vouchers for settlement, any person having an interest may appear and contest such account and the court must hear and determine such contest and, whether such contest be made or not, must render a decree on such account which has the force and effect of a decree rendered on a voluntary settlement by such conservator or personal representative.