If any person named as executor in the will renounces his or her appointment or fails to apply for letters testamentary within 30 days after probate and any other persons named therein as executors make application for such letters and are fit persons to discharge the trust, letters testamentary must issue to them if they comply with the other requisitions of the law.
Ala. Code § 43-2-26
Issuance of Letters to Others Named in Will Upon Renunciation or Failure to Apply by One Named.
(Code 1852, §1663; Code 1867, §1981; Code 1876, §2345; Code 1886, §2010; Code 1896, §52; Code 1907, §2514; Code 1923, §5736; Code 1940, T. 61, §75.)
Official source: Alabama Legislature (ALISON). Reproduced from public-domain Alabama statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.