When any estate is assigned or distributed by a judgment or decree of the district court, to any person residing out of and having no agent in this state, and it is necessary that some person should be authorized to take possession and charge of the same for the benefit of such absent person, the court may appoint an agent for that purpose, and authorize him to take charge of such estate as well as to act for such absent person in the distribution.
Okla. Stat. tit. 58, § 671