Kansas Statutes 60-1706. Power to declare rights or legal relations
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 60-1706
- Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. Source: OCC
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
- Guardian: means an individual or a nonprofit corporation certified in accordance with Kan. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
- 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.
- Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
- person: means any person, partnership, limited partnership, joint venture, joint stock company, unincorporated association, or society, or municipal or other corporation of any character whatsoever. See Kansas Statutes 60-1714
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
Any executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin, or beneficiary, in the administration of a trust, or of the estate of a decedent, an insolvent, a person under 18 years of age or other person for whom a guardian has been appointed, or any person holding an interest in such trust or estate, may seek and obtain declaration of rights or legal relations to:
(a) Ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin or others;
(b) direct the executors, administrators, or trustees to do any particular act in their fiduciary capacity or to refrain from doing any act in such capacity; or
(c) determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills and other writings.