72-5-438. Accounts -- final and intermediate. (1) Each conservator shall account to the court for administration of the trust not less than annually, unless the court directs otherwise, upon resignation or removal, and at other times as the court may direct. On termination of the protected person's minority or disability, a conservator shall account to the court or to the formerly protected person or the successors of that person.
(2) Subject to appeal or vacation within the time permitted, an order, after notice and hearing, allowing an intermediate account of a conservator adjudicates as to liabilities concerning the matters considered in connection with the hearing; and an order, following notice and hearing, allowing a final account adjudicates as to all previously unsettled liabilities of the conservator to the protected person or the protected person's successors relating to the conservatorship.
(3) In connection with any account, the court may require a conservator to submit to a physical check of the estate, to be made in any manner the court specifies.