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Section 43-8-8 - Effective date; transition provisions.

AL Code § 43-8-8 (2019) (N/A)
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(a) This chapter takes effect on January 1, 1983.

(b) Except as provided elsewhere in this chapter, on January 1, 1983:

(1) The chapter applies to any wills of decedents dying thereafter;

(2) An act of any personal representative or guardian done before January 1, 1983 in any proceeding and any accrued right is not impaired by this chapter. If a right is acquired, extinguished or barred upon the expiration of a prescribed period of time which has commenced to run by the provisions of any statute before January 1, 1983, the provisions shall remain in force with respect to that right; and

(3) Any rule of construction or presumption provided in this chapter applies to instruments executed before January 1, 1983 unless there is a clear indication of a contrary intent.

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