Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code § 37.005

Current with legislation from the 2023 Regular and Special Sessions signed by the Governor as of November 21, 2023.

Section 37.005 - Declarations Relating to Trust or Estate

A person interested as or through an executor or administrator, including an independent executor or administrator, a trustee, guardian, 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 to the trust or estate:

(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 trust or estate, including questions of construction of wills and other writings; or

(4) to determine rights or legal relations of an independent executor or independent administrator regarding fiduciary fees and the settling of accounts.

Tex. Civ. Prac. and Rem. Code § 37.005

Amended by Acts 1999, 76th Leg., ch. 855, Sec. 10, eff. 9/1/1999.

Amended by Acts 1987, 70th Leg., ch. 167, Sec. 3.08(a), eff. 9/1/1987

Acts 1985, 69th Leg., ch. 959, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1985.