§ 33-18-20 - Compromise of actions prosecuted or defended by interested persons – Property recovered.
SECTION 33-18-20
§ 33-18-20 Compromise of actionsprosecuted or defended by interested persons – Property recovered. –Courts of probate shall have the power to compromise all claims sued for ordefended by any legally interested person referred to in §§ 33-18-17– 33-18-19 in the same manner and to the same extent as may now be done bythe probate courts with reference to claims by or against estates of deceasedpersons or persons under guardianship. All property obtained by an interestedperson for the benefit of the estate through the proceeding shall be turnedover by the adverse party to the administrator, executor, or guardian, ifpersonal property, in the same manner as all other property coming to thepossession of the administrator, executor, or guardian; and shall become theproperty of the ward in cases of guardianship, or of the heirs at law ordevisees under a will, as either may become entitled to the property, in caseof real estate; the administrator, executor, or guardian being first requiredto furnish an additional bond to the probate court for the properadministration of personal property so obtained.