Section 527.040

Title XXXVI STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS

Chapter 527

Effective - 28 Aug 1983   

  527.040.  Declaration of rights or legal relationships, right to obtain, when. — 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

  (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.

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(RSMo 1939 § 1129, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)