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Missouri · Through 2026 legislative session (floor)

Mo. Rev. Stat. § 527.040: Declaration of rights or legal relationships, right to obtain, when.

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  1. Title XXXVI - STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS
  2. Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name

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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