Terms Used In Alabama Code 26-2-47

  • 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.
  • person: includes a corporation as well as a natural person. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
  • 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 of probate of a county in which an incapacitated person residing without the state may have property, real or personal, requiring the care of a conservator, may appoint a conservator for the property of such person which may be within this state if such person has been declared an incapacitated person by a court having jurisdiction in the state of his or her residence.