Any person interested as or through an executor, administrator, 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, infant, incompetent, 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 other;
(2) To direct the executors, administrators, 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.
Structure Code of Alabama
Article 5 - Declaratory Judgments.
Section 6-6-220 - "Person" Defined.
Section 6-6-221 - Purpose, Construction, and Administration of Article.
Section 6-6-222 - Power of Courts of Record; Form and Effect of Declarations.
Section 6-6-224 - Construction of Contracts Before or After Breach.
Section 6-6-225 - Questions on Administration of Trust or Estate of a Decedent, Etc.
Section 6-6-226 - Enumeration in Sections 6-6-223, 6-6-224, and 6-6-225 Not Exclusive.
Section 6-6-227 - Persons to Be Made Parties; Rights of Persons Not Parties.
Section 6-6-228 - Determination of Issue of Fact.
Section 6-6-229 - When Refusal Proper.
Section 6-6-230 - Granting of Further Relief; Application Therefor; Order to Show Cause.