21-24-5. Determination of rights under trust or decedent's estate.Any person interested as or through a personal representative, trustee, conservator, 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, minor, protected 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;(2)To direct the personal representatives 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. Source: SDC 1939 & Supp 1960, §37.0104; SL 1993, ch 213, §100.
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