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, an infant, lunatic, 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.
(2) To direct the executors, administrators, or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity.
(3) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.
Cross References. Section 7535 is referred to in section 7536 of this title.
Structure Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 75 - Commencement of Actions
Section 7501 - Attachment of property prior to judgment
Section 7502 - Affidavit of noninvolvement
Section 7521 - Short title of subchapter
Section 7522 - Interpleader compact
Section 7523 - Duties of the Department of State
Section 7524 - Duties of the Governor
Section 7531 - Short title of subchapter
Section 7532 - General scope of declaratory remedy
Section 7533 - Construction of documents
Section 7534 - Before breach of contract
Section 7535 - Rights of fiduciaries and other persons
Section 7536 - Enumeration not exclusive
Section 7537 - Remedy discretionary
Section 7538 - Applications for relief