{"data":{"id":"us-al/ala.-code-43-8-2","jurisdiction":"us-al","citation":"Ala. Code § 43-8-2","heading":"Construction of Chapter; Purposes and Policies.","body":"(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.\n(b) The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter are:\n(1) To simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents;\n(2) To discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in the distribution of his or her property.","path":["Title 43 Wills and Decedents’ Estates.","Chapter 8 Probate Code.","Article 1 General Provisions."],"source_url":"https://alison.legislature.state.al.us/code-of-alabama?section=43-8-2","current_through":"Act 2026-611","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T14:01:51Z","sha256":"4cdf5e78ad80a5def6d5296da0facab41a1705bb93b0c137a564092242312e78","source_id":"us-al","stale":false,"prev":"us-al/ala.-code-43-8-1","next":"us-al/ala.-code-43-8-3"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}