Alabama § 6-6-411 Executors and Administrators

Alabama Statutes

§ 6-6-411 — Executors and Administrators

Alabama § 6-6-411

JurisdictionAlabama

Title 6Civil Practice

Ch. 6Remedies

Art. 9Garnishments

Div. 3What May Be Garnished

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Bluebook

Ala. Code § 6-6-411 (2026).

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(a)Executors and administrators may be garnished for debts due by the testator or intestate to the defendant and may have process of garnishment in their representative character.

(b)Executors and administrators may be garnished for debts due by the legatees or distributees, but no judgment can be entered against them until a settlement of the estate, unless they assent to the legacy or admit assets to pay the amount claimed or some portion thereof out of the distributive share of the debtor.

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(a) Executors and administrators may be garnished for debts due by the testator or intestate to the defendant and may have process of garnishment in their representative character.
(b) Executors and administrators may be garnished for debts due by the legatees or distributees, but no judgment can be entered against them until a settlement of the estate, unless they assent to the legacy or admit assets to pay the amount claimed or some portion thereof out of the distributive share of the debtor.

Legislative History

(Code 1852, §§2519, 2520; Code 1867, §§2946, 2947; Code 1876, §§3272, 3273; Code 1886, §§2948, 2949; Code 1896, §§2178, 2179; Code 1907, §§4307, 4308; Code 1923, §§8058, 8059; Code 1940, T. 7, §§1002, 1003.)