Terms Used In Alabama Code 6-6-525

  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • 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.
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

The trustee must, at least once in three years, make partial settlement of his accounts and may be required to do so at any time; and, on the termination of the trust, he or, if he is dead, his personal representative must make final settlement thereof, such settlement to be governed by the provisions of this Code regulating settlements of guardian‘s accounts in the court of probate, so far as such provisions may be applicable.