Nevada Revised Statutes 30.060 – Declaration of rights in certain cases
1. Any person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, other fiduciary, including, without limitation, a person granted authority to act for a principal under a power of attorney, whether denominated an agent, attorney-in-fact or otherwise, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin or cestui que trust, in the administration of a trust or the estate of a decedent, an infant, lunatic or insolvent, or in the actions taken pursuant to a power of attorney, may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect thereto:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 30.060
- Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
- Decedent: A deceased person.
- Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
- 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.
- Legatee: A beneficiary of a decedent
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
- Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. Source: OCC
- Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
(a) To ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin or others;
(b) To direct an executor, administrator, trustee or person granted authority to act for a principal under a power of attorney, whether denominated an agent, attorney-in-fact or otherwise, to do or abstain from doing any particular act in his or her fiduciary capacity; or
(c) To determine any question arising in the administration of the estate or trust, including questions of construction of wills, trusts and other writings.
2. Any action for declaratory relief under this section may only be made in a proceeding commenced pursuant to the provisions of title 12 or 13 of NRS, as appropriate.