Any person interested as or through a personal representative, administrator, trustee, guardian, conservator or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, heir, next of kin, or cestui que trust, in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, an infant, ward, or insolvent, may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect to any of the following:

Terms Used In Arizona Laws 12-1834

  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • including: means not limited to and is not a term of exclusion. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Person: includes a corporation, company, partnership, firm, association or society, as well as a natural person. See Arizona Laws 1-215
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.

1. To ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, heirs or others; or

2. To direct the personal representatives, administrators, trustees, guardians or conservators to do or abstain from doing any particular act in their fiduciary capacity; or

3. To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.