Effective - 28 Aug 1983
527.040. Declaration of rights or legal relationships, right to obtain, when. — 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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(RSMo 1939 § 1129, A.L. 1983 S.B. 44 & 45)
Structure Missouri Revised Statutes
Title XXXVI - Statutory Actions and Torts
Chapter 527 - Declaratory Judgments; Actions Involving Land Titles; Lis Pendens; Change of Name
Section 527.020 - Power to construe.
Section 527.030 - Before breach.
Section 527.040 - Declaration of rights or legal relationships, right to obtain, when.
Section 527.050 - Enumeration not exclusive.
Section 527.060 - Discretionary.
Section 527.080 - Supplemental relief.
Section 527.120 - Construction.
Section 527.130 - "Person" defined.
Section 527.150 - Suits to determine interest and quiet title, how instituted — effect of judgment.
Section 527.160 - Practice to conform to code of civil procedure.
Section 527.170 - Costs in suits to determine interest and quiet title.
Section 527.180 - Suit to perfect title by limitation — proceedings.
Section 527.188 - Petition for vacation of abandoned easement.
Section 527.190 - Proceedings to establish title when records, deeds are lost or destroyed.
Section 527.200 - Publication of notice — proceedings.
Section 527.210 - Decree conclusive as to whom — prima facie as to whom.
Section 527.220 - Limitation — court may modify its decree, when.
Section 527.230 - Copy to be recorded, where — may be read in evidence.
Section 527.240 - Proceedings to conform to the rules in civil practice.
Section 527.250 - Form of publication notice.
Section 527.260 - Notice of lis pendens in equity action — recording.
Section 527.270 - Petition, where presented — contents — proceedings.
Section 527.280 - Fees to be paid by petitioner.
Section 527.290 - Notice of change to be given, when and how — not required, when.