§ 3-408. Persons entitled to declaration of rights or legal relations in respect to trust or estate of decedent

   Any person interested as or through a personal representative, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or beneficiary of a trust, in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, a minor, disabled person, or insolvent, may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect to the trust or the estate of a decedent in order to:

   (1) Ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin, or others;

   (2) Direct the personal representative, guardian, or other fiduciary or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or

   (3) Determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.

HISTORY: An. Code 1957, art. 31A, § 4; 1973, 1st Sp. Sess., ch. 2, § 1.