(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.
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Terms Used In Alabama Code 43-8-2

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • property: includes both real and personal property. See Alabama Code 1-1-1
(b) The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter are:

(1) To simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents;
(2) To discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in the distribution of his property.
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