Alabama Code 6-6-183. Complaint for discovery of assets – Execution returned “no property found” or creditor without lien or judgment; answer of debtor
Terms Used In Alabama Code 6-6-183
- Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
- Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
- Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
- Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
- Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. Source: U.S. Courts
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
- property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
A creditor, having obtained a judgment upon which execution has issued and been returned “no property found” or a creditor without a lien or judgment may, in a court of competent jurisdiction of the county in which the judgment debtor resides or in a like court of the county in which the judgment was entered, file a complaint for the discovery of the assets of the debtor subject to the payment of debts; and the debtor must answer on oath and disclose all property, real or personal, in which he may have or may claim an interest, legal or equitable; all moneys, effects, or choses in action in which he may have or may claim an interest, legal or equitable; where such property, real or personal, is situated or may be found; who has or may claim possession thereof; in whose possession are the moneys, effects, or choses in action in which he has or may claim an interest, legal or equitable and where such moneys, effects, or choses in action may be found.