2018 Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts
Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name
Section 527.040 Declaration of rights or legal relationships, right to obtain, when.
Effective 28 Aug 1983
Title XXXVI STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS
Chapter 527527.040. 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)
