{"data":{"id":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-527.040","jurisdiction":"us-mo","citation":"Mo. Rev. Stat. § 527.040","heading":"Declaration of rights or legal relationships, right to obtain, when.","body":"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:\n(1) To ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin or others; or\n(2) To direct the personal representatives or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or\n(3) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.","path":["Title XXXVI - STATUTORY ACTIONS AND TORTS","Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name"],"source_url":"https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=527.040","current_through":"2026 legislative session (floor)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T22:23:29Z","sha256":"18689ffe866cc8468c64f5bf940cb30e77f0139bc2f87025851c22889c4c93f8","source_id":"us-mo","stale":false,"prev":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-527.030","next":"us-mo/mo.-rev.-stat.-527.050"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}