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AL Code § 43-2-813 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 2 - Administration of Estates.|Article 19 - Insolvent Estates.|Division 6 - Report or Decree of Insolvency as Affecting Pending Civil Actions.|Section 43-2-813 - Effect of Order or Decree of Insolvency Certified to Other Courts After Judgment or Decree Therein Rendered.

Section 43-2-813Effect of order or decree of insolvency certified to other courts after judgment or decree therein rendered. After judgment or decree has been rendered in any court against an executor or administrator for any debt, damages or costs, if the estate is subsequently declared insolvent, such personal representative may file a certified copy of the decree or order of the probate court declaring such estate insolvent with the clerk or register of the court in which such judgment or decree was rendered against the personal representative; whereupon, it shall be the duty of such clerk or register to certify back to the probate court a copy of such judgment or decree for payment in the probate court as other claims against insolvent estates, after which no execution shall issue or be further enforced against such executor or administrator or sureties personally by the court rendering such judgment or decree. (Code 1907, §2796; Code 1923, §6035; Code 1940, T. 61, §422.)
AL Code § 43-8-130 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-130 - Who May Make a Will.

Section 43-8-130Who may make a will. Any person 18 or more years of age who is of sound mind may make a will. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-501.)
AL Code § 43-8-131 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-131 - Execution and Signature of Will; Witnesses.

Section 43-8-131Execution and signature of will; witnesses. Except as provided within section 43-8-135, every will shall be in writing signed by the testator or in the testator's name by some other person in the testator's presence and by his direction, and shall be signed by at least two persons each of whom witnessed either the signing or the testator's acknowledgment of the signature or of the will. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-502.)
AL Code § 43-8-133 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-133 - Self-Proved Will - Making Attested Will Self-Proved.

Section 43-8-133Self-proved will - Making attested will self-proved. An attested will may be made self-proved through compliance with section 43-8-132 or as otherwise provided by law. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-504.)
AL Code § 43-8-134 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-134 - Who May Witness Will.

Section 43-8-134Who may witness will. (a) Any person generally competent to be a witness may act as a witness to a will. (b) A will or any provision thereof is not invalid because the will is signed by an interested witness. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-505.)
AL Code § 43-8-135 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-135 - Choice of Law as to Validity of Execution.

Section 43-8-135Choice of law as to validity of execution. A written will is valid if executed in compliance with section 43-8-131 or if its execution complies with the law at the time of execution of the place where the will is executed, or with the law of the place where at the time of execution or at the time of death the testator is domiciled, has a place of abode or is a national. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-506.)
AL Code § 43-8-136 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-136 - Revocation by Writing or by Act; When Witnesses Required.

Section 43-8-136Revocation by writing or by act; when witnesses required. (a) A will or any part thereof is revoked by a subsequent will which revokes the prior will or part expressly or by inconsistency. (b) A will is revoked by being burned, torn, canceled, obliterated, or destroyed, with the intent and for the purpose of revoking it by the testator or by another person in his presence by his consent and direction. If the physical act is by someone other than the testator, consent and direction of the testator must be proved by at least two witnesses. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-507.)
AL Code § 43-8-137 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-137 - Revocation by Divorce or Annulment; Revival by Remarriage; No Revocation by Other Changes or Circumstances.

Section 43-8-137Revocation by divorce or annulment; revival by remarriage; no revocation by other changes or circumstances. If after executing a will the testator is divorced or his marriage annulled, the divorce or annulment revokes any disposition or appointment of property made by the will to the former spouse, any provision conferring a general or special power of appointment on the former spouse, and any nomination of the former spouse as executor, trustee, or guardian, unless the will expressly provides otherwise. Property prevented from passing to a former spouse because of revocation by divorce or annulment passes as if the former spouse failed to survive the decedent, and other provisions conferring some power or office on the former spouse are interpreted as if the spouse failed to survive the decedent. If provisions are revoked solely by this section, they are revived by testator's remarriage to the former spouse. For purposes of this section, divorce or annulment means any divorce or annulment which would exclude the spouse as a surviving spouse within the meaning of section 43-8-252(b). A decree of separation which does not terminate the status of husband and wife is not a divorce for purposes of this section. No change of circumstances other than as described in this section revokes a will. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-508.)
AL Code § 43-8-138 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-138 - When Will Revived on Revocation of Subsequent Will.

Section 43-8-138When will revived on revocation of subsequent will. (a) If a second will which, had it remained effective at death, would have revoked the first will in whole or in part, is thereafter revoked by acts under section 43-8-136, the first will is revoked in whole or in part unless it is evident from the circumstances of the revocation of the second will or from testator's contemporary or subsequent declarations in writing, signed by the testator and attested as prescribed in section 43-8-131, that he intended the first will to take effect as executed. (b) If a second will which, had it remained effective at death, would have revoked the first will in whole or in part, is thereafter revoked by a third will, the first will is revoked in whole or in part, except to the extent it appears from the terms of the third will that the testator intended the first will to take effect. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-509.)
AL Code § 43-8-139 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-139 - Incorporation by Reference.

Section 43-8-139Incorporation by reference. Any writing in existence when a will is executed may be incorporated by reference if the language of the will manifests this intent and describes the writing sufficiently to permit its identification. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-510.)
AL Code § 43-8-140 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-140 - Testamentary Additions to Trusts.

Section 43-8-140Testamentary additions to trusts. A devise or bequest, the validity of which is determinable by the law of this state, may be made by a will to the trustee of a trust established or to be established by the testator and some other person or by some other person (including a funded or unfunded life insurance trust, although the trustor has reserved any or all rights of ownership of the insurance contracts) if the trust is identified in the testator's will and its terms are set forth in a written instrument (other than a will) executed before or concurrently with the execution of the testator's will or in the valid last will of a person who has predeceased the testator (regardless of the existence, size, or character of the corpus of the trust). The devise is not invalid because the trust is amendable or revocable, or because the trust was amended after the execution of the will or after the death of the testator. Unless the testator's will provides otherwise, the property so devised (1) is not deemed to be held under a testamentary trust of the testator but becomes a part of the trust to which it is given and (2) shall be administered and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the instrument or will setting forth the terms of the trust, including any amendments thereto made before the death of the testator (regardless of whether made before or after the execution of the testator's will), and, if the testator's will so provides, including any amendments to the trust made after the death of a testator. A revocation or termination of the trust before the death of the testator causes the devise to lapse. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-511.)
AL Code § 43-8-141 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 1 - Execution of Will.|Section 43-8-141 - Reference to Events of Independent Significance.

Section 43-8-141Reference to events of independent significance. A will may dispose of property by reference to acts and events which have significance apart from their effect upon the dispositions made by the will, whether they occur before or after the execution of the will or before or after the testator's death. The execution or revocation of a will of another person is such an event. (Acts 1982, No. 82-399, §2-512.)
AL Code § 43-8-160 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-160 - Who May Have Will Probated.

Section 43-8-160Who may have will probated. Upon the death of a testator, any executor, devisee, or legatee named in the will, or any person interested in the estate, or who has custody of such will may have the will proved before the proper probate court. (Code 1852, §1620; Code 1867, §1939; Code 1876, §2303; Code 1886, §1975; Code 1896, §4272; Code 1907, §6181; Code 1923, §10607; Code 1940, T. 61, §33; Code 1975, §43-1-36.)
AL Code § 43-8-161 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-161 - Time Limit for Probate.

Section 43-8-161Time limit for probate. Wills shall not be effective unless filed for probate within five years from the date of the death of the testator. If the testator was not an inhabitant of this state at the time of his or her death, the will may be admitted to probate in this state pursuant to section 43-8-175, provided the will was admitted to probate, within five years from the date of death, in the state, territory or country where the testator resided at the time of death; provided further, that the probate in the state of the will of an inhabitant of another state, territory or country shall not be effective against persons purchasing from the heirs of such testator if such purchase was made more than five years after the death of the testator and prior to February 24, 1959. (Acts 1945, No. 196, p. 322; Acts 1949, No. 336, p. 501; Acts 1959, No. 587, p. 1475, §1; Code 1975, §43-1-37.)
AL Code § 43-8-162 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-162 - Where Will Probated.

Section 43-8-162Where will probated. Wills must be proved in the several probate courts as follows: (1) When the testator, at the time of his death, was an inhabitant of the county, in the probate court of such county. (2) When the testator, not being an inhabitant of the state, dies in the county, leaving assets therein, in the probate court of such county. (3) When the testator, not being an inhabitant of the state, dies out of the county, leaving assets therein, in the probate of the county in which such assets, or any part thereof, are. (4) When the testator, not being an inhabitant of the state, dies, not leaving assets therein, and assets thereafter come into any county, in the probate court of any county into which such assets are brought. (5) In the probate court of the county designated by testator in the will if the testator owns property in such county at the time of his death. (Code 1852, §1621; Code 1867, §1940; Code 1876, §2304; Code 1886, §1976; Code 1896, §4273; Code 1907, §6182; Code 1923, §10609; Code 1940, T. 61, §35; Code 1975, §43-1-38.)
AL Code § 43-8-163 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-163 - Probate Not Prevented by Subsequent Incompetency of Witnesses.

Section 43-8-163Probate not prevented by subsequent incompetency of witnesses. If the witnesses attesting the execution of any will are competent at the time of their attestation, their subsequent incompetency, from whatever cause it may arise, must not prevent the probate of such will, if otherwise satisfactorily proved. (Code 1852, §1612; Code 1867, §1931; Code 1876, §2295; Code 1886, §1967; Code 1896, §4264; Code 1907, §6173; Code 1923, §10599; Code 1940, T. 61, §25; Code 1975, §43-1-39.)
AL Code § 43-8-164 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-164 - Notice to Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin - Generally.

Section 43-8-164Notice to surviving spouse and next of kin - Generally. Whenever an application is made to prove a will in this state, at least 10 days' notice must be given to the surviving spouse and next of kin, or either of them, residing and being within the state, before such application is heard. (Code 1852, §1632; Code 1867, §1951; Code 1876, §2315; Code 1886, §1987; Code 1896, §4284; Code 1907, §6193; Code 1923, §10622; Code 1940, T. 61, §48, Code 1975, §43-1-41.)
AL Code § 43-8-165 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-165 - Notice to Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin - Minors.

Section 43-8-165Notice to surviving spouse and next of kin - Minors. If any of the next of kin are minors, such notice may be served as provided by the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure; and in addition to the service above provided for minors, the court must appoint a guardian ad litem who is disinterested and who shall be an attorney-at-law and who does not represent any party having an interest adverse to such minors; and notice shall issue to such guardian ad litem. Such guardian shall accept service and agree to represent the minors in the proof and probate of the will, and if he fail to accept service and agree to appear for the minors within 10 days after service, the court appoint another guardian ad litem, upon whom notice must be served, and he must agree to accept service and represent the minors as is provided in the first instance, and the will must not be probated until a guardian ad litem has agreed to accept the appointment and to represent the minors in the proof and probate of the will, which acceptance and agreement must be in writing and filed with the papers in the cause, and notice must be given to such guardian ad litem in all proceedings to contest the probate of the will. (Code 1896, §4285; Code 1907, §6194; Code 1923, §10623; Code 1940, T. 61, §49; Code 1975, §43-1-42.)
AL Code § 43-8-166 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-166 - Notice to Surviving Spouse and Next of Kin - Persons Outside State.

Section 43-8-166Notice to surviving spouse and next of kin - Persons outside state. If either the surviving spouse or next of kin reside and are without the state, notice of such application must be given by publication once a week for three successive weeks in a newspaper published in the county in which such application is made, and if no paper is published therein, by posting of the same at the courthouse three weeks before such application is heard. In lieu of the notice herein provided, notice may be had on such persons as provided by the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure. (Code 1852, §1633; Code 1867, §1952; Code 1876, §2316; Code 1886, §1988; Code 1896, §4286; Code 1907, §6195; Code 1923, §10624; Code 1940, T. 61, §50; Code 1975, §43-1-43.)
AL Code § 43-8-167 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-167 - Mode of Proving Will Generally.

Section 43-8-167Mode of proving will generally. (a) Wills offered for probate, except nuncupative wills, must be proved by one or more of the subscribing witnesses, or if they be dead, insane or out of the state or have become incompetent since the attestation, then by the proof of the handwriting of the testator, and that of at least one of the witnesses to the will. Where no contest is filed, the testimony of only one attesting witness is sufficient. (b) If none of the subscribing witnesses to such will are produced, their insanity, death, subsequent incompetency or absence from the state must be satisfactorily shown before proof of the handwriting of the testator, or any of the subscribing witnesses, can be received; in addition to the methods already provided, the will of a person serving in the armed forces of the United States, executed while such person is in the actual service of the United States, or the will of a seaman, executed while such seaman was at sea, shall be admitted to probate when either or all of the subscribing witnesses is out of the state at the time said will is offered for probate, or when the places of address of such witness or witnesses are unknown upon the oath of at least three credible witnesses, that the signature to said will is in the handwriting of the person whose will it purports to be. Such will so proven shall be effective to devise real property as well as to bequeath personal property of all kinds. (Code 1852, §§1624, 1625; Code 1867, §§1943, 1944; Code 1876, §§2307, 2308; Code 1886, §§1979, 1980; Code 1896, §§4276, 4277; Code 1907, §§6185, 6186; Code 1923, §§10613, 10614; Code 1940, T. 61, §§39, 40; Acts 1945, No. 78, p. 75; Code 1975, §43-1-44.)
AL Code § 43-8-168 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-168 - Depositions of Witnesses.

Section 43-8-168Depositions of witnesses. When the subscribing witnesses, or any of them, reside out of the state, or are physically unable or in any case in which depositions are authorized to be taken in circuit court, the judge of probate may issue a commission to take the testimony of such witnesses in proof of such will. (Code 1852, §1626; Code 1867, §1945; Code 1876, §2309; Code 1886, §1981; Code 1896, §4278; Code 1907, §6187; Code 1923, §10615; Code 1940, T. 61, §41; Code 1975, §43-1-45.)
AL Code § 43-8-169 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-169 - Recordation of Witnesses' Testimony.

Section 43-8-169Recordation of witnesses' testimony. If it appears, on the proof taken before the judge of probate, that the will was duly executed, the testimony of the witnesses must be reduced to writing by him, signed by the witnesses and, with the will, immediately recorded in a book provided and kept for that purpose. (Code 1852, §1627; Code 1867, §1946; Code 1876, §2310; Code 1886, §1982; Code 1896, §4279; Code 1907, §6188; Code 1923, §10616; Code 1940, T. 61, §42; Code 1975, §43-1-46.)
AL Code § 43-8-170 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-170 - Certificate Endorsed on Will.

Section 43-8-170Certificate endorsed on will. Every will so proved must have a certificate endorsed thereon, setting forth in substance that such will had been duly proved and recorded, with the proof, specifying also the date of the probate, the book in and page or pages on which it is recorded. Such endorsement must be signed by such judge of probate. (Code 1852, §1628; Code 1867, §1947; Code 1876, §2311; Code 1886, §1983; Code 1896, §4280; Code 1907, §6189; Code 1923, §10617; Code 1940, T. 61, §43; Code 1975, §43-1-47.)
AL Code § 43-8-171 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-171 - Admission of Will in Evidence.

Section 43-8-171Admission of will in evidence. Every will, so proved or endorsed, may be read in evidence in any court of the state, without further proof thereof; and the record of such will and proof or a transcript thereof, certified by the judge of probate, must be received as evidence to the same extent as if the original will was produced, and the same proof made. (Code 1852, §1629; Code 1867, §1948; Code 1876, §2312; Code 1886, §1984; Code 1896, §4281; Code 1907, §6190; Code 1923, §10618; Code 1940, T. 61, §44; Code 1975, §43-1-48.)
AL Code § 43-8-172 (2021)
2021 Code of Alabama|Title 43 - Wills and Decedents' Estates.|Chapter 8 - Probate Code.|Article 7 - Wills Generally.|Division 2 - Probate of Will.|Section 43-8-172 - Protection of Bona Fide Purchasers, Etc.

Section 43-8-172Protection of bona fide purchasers, etc. Any will which is not propounded for probate in this state within 12 months from the date of the death of the testator shall be inoperative and void as to bona fide purchasers, mortgagees or pledgees (and those claiming under them) of property or any interest therein from the executors, administrators, heirs at law, devisees, distributees of the estate of such deceased or anyone claiming under them, provided such purchasers acquire their interest in such property prior to the time such will is propounded for probate in this state and without actual notice of such will. The provisions of this section shall not affect the right of any beneficiary entitled thereto under any such will to follow the proceeds from the sale of any such property in lieu of such property in the hands of the executors, administrators, heirs at law or distributees of such estate. (Acts 1939, No. 42, p. 45; Code 1940, T. 61, §51; Code 1975, §43-1-49.)