26-7 - Court order for payments due from fiduciaries; effect.
§ 26-7. Court order for payments due from fiduciaries; effect.
When a report of the accounts of any guardian, curator, conservator,committee, or trustee aforesaid, shall be confirmed, either in whole or in aqualified manner, the court, in the clerk's office of which such report isfiled, may order payment of what shall appear due on such accounts to suchpersons as would be entitled to recover the same by suit in equity; and anyguardian, curator, conservator, committee, or trustee who has, in good faith,in compliance with the order of such court, paid and delivered the money andother estate in his hands to whomsoever the court has adjudged entitledthereto, shall be fully protected against the demands of creditors and allother persons.
(Code 1919, § 5433; 1942, p. 480; 1997, c. 801.)