Alabama Code 43-2-682. Court may allow compensation or attorney’s fees up to time of settlement
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 43-2-682
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- 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.
- 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.
Upon any annual, partial or final settlement made by any administrator or executor, the court having jurisdiction thereof may fix, determine and allow the fees or other compensation to which any such administrator or executor is entitled from an estate up to the time of such settlement, and may also fix, determine and allow an attorney’s fee or compensation, to be paid from such estate to attorneys representing such administrator or executor, for services rendered to the time of such settlement.