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:
(a) To ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin or others; or
(b) To direct the executors, administrators, or trustees to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or
(c) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.
Structure West Virginia Code
Chapter 55. Actions, Suits and Arbitration; Judicial Sale
Article 13. Uniform Declaratory Judgments Act
§55-13-2. Who May Have Determination and Obtain Declaration
§55-13-3. Construction of Contract Before or After Breach
§55-13-4. Declaration Concerning Trusts and Estates
§55-13-5. No Restriction on Powers Conferred by §55-13-1
§55-13-6. When Court May Refuse Judgment
§55-13-9. Trial and Determination of Issues of Fact
§55-13-12. Article Remedial; Liberal Construction and Administration Thereof