Missouri Laws 527.040 – Declaration of rights or legal relationships, right to obtain, when
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Any person interested as or through a personal representative, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or cestui que trust, in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, an infant, mentally incapacitated person, or insolvent may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect thereto:
(1) To ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin or others; or
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 527.040
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
- person: may extend and be applied to bodies politic and corporate, and to partnerships and other unincorporated associations. See Missouri Laws 1.020
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(2) To direct the personal representatives or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or
(3) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.