Section 26-5-9

Section 26-5-9Final settlement generally - Establishment of day for settlement; notice thereof.

The court must appoint a day for the settlement, of which 10 days' notice must be given to the succeeding conservator, if there is such conservator, or to the personal representative of the ward, if the ward is dead, or to the ward, if he or she is a resident of the state and has arrived at full age or has been relieved of the disability of nonage or incapacity has terminated, and to all sureties on the bond of such conservator, by the service of process, and notice must also be given, as the court may direct, either by advertisement for three successive weeks in some newspaper published in the county or for the same length of time by posting notice at the courthouse door and at three other public places in the county.

(Code 1886, §2461; Code 1896, §2346; Code 1907, §4436; Code 1923, §8209; Acts 1931, No. 704, p. 829; Code 1940, T. 21, §136; Acts 1987, No. 87-590, p. 975, §2-333(b).)