Sec. 4. 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, a person under eighteen (18) years of age, or a mentally incompetent person may have a declaration of rights or legal relations:
(1) to ascertain any class of creditors, devisee, legatees, heirs, next of kin, or others;
(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.
[Pre-1998 Recodification Citation: 34-4-10-4.]
As added by P.L.1-1998, SEC.9.
Structure Indiana Code
Title 34. Civil Law and Procedure
Article 14. Causes of Action: Declaratory Judgment
Chapter 1. Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act
34-14-1-1. Power of Court; Form and Effect of Declaration
34-14-1-2. Persons Who May Obtain Declaratory Judgment
34-14-1-3. Construction of Contract Before or After Breach
34-14-1-4. Declarations Regarding Trusts or Estates
34-14-1-5. General Powers Not Restricted by Enumeration of Specific Powers
34-14-1-6. Refusal to Render Declaratory Judgment; Discretion of Court
34-14-1-7. Review of Judgments or Decrees
34-14-1-8. Further Relief Based on Declaratory Judgment; Application
34-14-1-9. Trial on Issues of Fact
34-14-1-12. Purpose of Chapter
34-14-1-14. Severability of Certain Sections