{"data":{"id":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-24-24-46","jurisdiction":"us-ok","citation":"Okla. Stat. tit. 24, § 24-46","heading":"Accounting by assignee - Supervision by judge of district","body":"court - Removal or discharge - Bankruptcy proceedings.\n\nAfter the lapse of six (6) months from the date of filing his\n\nbond the assignee, on motion of any one of the creditors, with ten\n\n(10) days' notice, accompanied by an affidavit of the creditor, his\n\nagent or attorney, setting forth his claim and the amount thereof,\n\nand that no account has been filed within six (6) months, may be\n\nordered by the court or by the judge thereof, at any place in his\n\njudicial district, to render an account of his proceedings, within a\n\ngiven time, to be fixed by the court, or the judge thereof, not to\n\nexceed fifteen days. All proceedings under this chapter shall be\n\nsubject to the order and supervision of the judge of the district\n\ncourt of the county in which such assignment was made, and such\n\njudge may, from time to time, in his discretion, on the petition of\n\none or more of his creditors, by order, citation, attachment or\n\notherwise, require any assignee or assignees to render accounts and\n\nfile reports of his or their proceedings and of the conditions of\n\nsuch trust estate, and may order or decree distribution thereof; and\n\nsuch judge may, in his discretion, for cause shown, remove any\n\nassignee or assignees and appoint another or others instead, who\n\nshall give such bond as the judge, in view of the conditions and\n\nvalue of the estate, may direct, and such order or removal and\n\nappointment, shall in terms transfer to such new assignee or\n\nassignees all the trust estate, real, personal and mixed, and may be\n\nrecorded in the deed records in the office of registers of deeds of\n\nany county wherein any real estate affected by the assignment may be\n\nsituated. And such judge may by order, which may be enforced as\n\nupon proceedings for contempt, compel the assignee or assignees so\n\nremoved to deliver all property, money, choses in action, book\n\naccounts and vouchers, to the assignee or assignees so appointed,\n\nand to make, execute and deliver to such new assignee or assignees\n\nsuch deeds, assignments and transfers as such judge may deem proper,\n\nand to render a full account and report of all matters connected\n\nwith such trust estate. Whenever any assignee so removed shall have\n\nfully accounted for and turned over to the assignee or assignees\n\nappointed by the judge all the trust estate, and made a full report\n\nof all his doings, and complied with all orders of the judge\n\ntouching such estate, and also whenever an assignee has fully\n\ncomplied with his trust, he may by order of the judge be fully\n\ndischarged from all further duties, liabilities and responsibilities\n\nconnected with the trust. In either case he shall give notice by\n\npublication in some newspaper of the county, if there be one printed\n\nand published therein, and if not, a newspaper published at the\n\ncapital of the state, once in each week for at least three (3)\n\nweeks, that he will apply to such judge for such discharge, at a\n\ntime and place to be stated in such notice, which time shall not be\n\nmore than three (3) weeks after the last publication of the notice.\n\nIf, upon the hearing, the judge shall be satisfied that the assignee\n\nis entitled to be discharged, he shall make an order accordingly; or\n\nif, in the opinion of the judge, anything remains to be done by such\n\nassignee, he may require the performance thereof before making such\n\norder. Such order shall have the effect of discharging the assignee\n\nand his sureties from all further responsibility in respect to the\n\ntrust, and such order shall not be refused on account of any failure\n\non the part of the assignee to comply with the formal provision of\n\nlaw, where no loss or damage to anyone shall have occurred through\n\nsuch failure. Whenever the trust estate shall have been taken out\n\nof the hands of the assignee by proceedings in bankruptcy in the\n\nfederal court, the assignee may in like manner be discharged, upon\n, and such order shall not be refused on account of any failure\n\non the part of the assignee to comply with the formal provision of\n\nlaw, where no loss or damage to anyone shall have occurred through\n\nsuch failure. Whenever the trust estate shall have been taken out\n\nof the hands of the assignee by proceedings in bankruptcy in the\n\nfederal court, the assignee may in like manner be discharged, upon\n\nshowing that he has fully accounted with the assignee in bankruptcy,\n\nand turned over to him the whole of the trust estate.","path":["OK Code","Title 24"],"source_url":"https://www.oklegislature.gov/OK_Statutes/CompleteTitles/os24.pdf","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-14","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T18:32:36Z","sha256":"66acee38db1bbebbf5796ce48ae3ad86b24327f83bce828bee8c316f83087559","source_id":"us-ok","stale":false,"prev":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-24-24-45","next":"us-ok/okla.-stat.-tit.-24-24-47"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}