Code of Alabama - Title 43: Wills and Decedents' Estates - Section 43-8-2 - Construction of chapter; purposes and policies

Section 43-8-2 - Construction of chapter; purposes and policies.

(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.

(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.

(Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §1-102.)

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