Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 27. CIVIL LIABILITY, REMEDIES, AND LIMITATIONS

CHAPTER 8. UNIFORM DECLARATORY JUDGMENTS ACT

Part 2. Availability of Declaratory Judgments

Declarations Concerning Administration Of Trusts And Estates

27-8-204. Declarations concerning administration of trusts and estates. A person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, heir, or cestui que trust in the administration of a trust or of the estate of a decedent, minor, person committed pursuant to 53-21-127, or insolvent person may have a declaration of rights or legal relations:

(1) to ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, heirs, or others;

(2) to direct the executors, administrators, or trustees to do or abstain from doing a particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or

(3) to determine a question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.

History: En. Sec. 4, Ch. 16, L. 1935; re-en. Sec. 9835.4, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-8904; amd. Sec. 32, Ch. 12, L. 1979; amd. Sec. 5, Ch. 490, L. 1997.