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, a disabled person, or an insolvent, may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect to the trust or the estate of the decedent, minor, disabled person, or insolvent 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.
Structure Maryland Statutes
Courts and Judicial Proceedings
Title 3 - Courts of General Jurisdiction -- Jurisdiction/special Causes of Action
Subtitle 4 - Declaratory Judgment
Section 3-401 - "Person" Defined
Section 3-402 - Purpose and Construction of Subtitle
Section 3-405 - Parties; Role of Attorney General
Section 3-406 - Power to Construe
Section 3-407 - Construction of Contracts Before or After Breach
Section 3-408.1 - Land Patent Proceedings
Section 3-409 - Discretionary Relief
Section 3-411 - Form and Effect of Declaration
Section 3-412 - Supplementary Relief