Terms Used In Alabama Code 26-5-9

  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • 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.
  • state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Alabama Code 1-1-1

The court must appoint a day for the settlement, of which 10 days’ notice must be given to the succeeding conservator, if there is such conservator, or to the personal representative of the ward, if the ward is dead, or to the ward, if he or she is a resident of the state and has arrived at full age or has been relieved of the disability of nonage or incapacity has terminated, and to all sureties on the bond of such conservator, by the service of process, and notice must also be given, as the court may direct, either by advertisement for three successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county or for the same length of time by posting notice at the courthouse door and at three other public places in the county.