Code of Alabama - Title 43: Wills and Decedents' Estates - Chapter 6 - Escheats

• Section 43-6-2 Notice by representative
  The personal representative of any person leaving property not devised or bequeathed, or where the devisees or legatees are incapable of taking and such representative...
• Section 43-6-3 Contents of notice
  Such notice must contain the name of the deceased, as near as may be, a description of his person, the place where he was or...
• Section 43-6-4 Disposition of personalty when no heir appears
  If no heir or person entitled to receive such estate appears or is ascertained within 12 months after such publication, the money and proceeds of...
• Section 43-6-5 Disposition of real estate when no heir appears
  If, after two years from the publication of such notice, no heir or person entitled to receive such estate appears, the real estate must be...
• Section 43-6-6 Decree against personal representative for failure to pay over proceeds
  The judge of probate may render decrees against such personal representative, in the name of the state, for the money or proceeds of the property,...
• Section 43-6-7 Payment of receipts to state treasurer
  The judge of probate must, within three months after the receipt thereof, pay to the treasurer all moneys he may receive under the provisions of...
• Section 43-6-8 Action by state to recover personal property distributed without authority
  The state may enforce its right to any personal property to which it is entitled under the provisions of this chapter by action against any...
• Section 43-6-9 Duty of probate judge to attend to interest of state
  It is the official duty of the judge of probate of each county to attend to the interest of the state intended to be secured...

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