Any person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, 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, infant, incompetent, 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 other;
(2) To direct the executors, administrators, or trustees 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.
(Acts 1935, No. 355, p. 777; Code 1940, T. 7, §159.)
Notes of Decisions
Stone v. Gulf Am. Fire & Cas. Co., 554 So. 2d 346 (Ala. 1989).
· cites it 5× “, as one filed pursuant to the provisions of Ala. Code 1975, § 6-6-225. In Ex parte Stone, 502 So.”
Suggs v. Gray, 265 So. 3d 226 (Ala. 2018).
“Code 1975, provides: "Any person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, 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, infant, incompetent,…”
Stone v. Ludden, 502 So. 2d 683 (Ala. 1986).
“Specifically, § 6-6-225 provides: Any person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, creditor, devisee, legatee, heir, next of kin or ces-tui que trust in the administration of a trust or of the estate of a decedent, infant,…”
Suggs v. Gray, 265 So. 3d 226 (Ala. 2018).
“Code 1975, provides: "Any person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, 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, infant, incompetent,…”
Timothy Brian Johnson & Phillip Barnes v. Judith Mayers (Ala. 2025).
“" Here, Mayers petitioned the circuit court for construction of the will pursuant to § 6-6-225(3), Ala. Code 1975, which authorizes an administrator to seek a declaration of rights "[t]o determine any question arising in the administration of the estate …, including questions of…”
— Ala. Code § 6-6-225(3) — 1 case
Timothy Brian Johnson & Phillip Barnes v. Judith Mayers (Ala. 2025).
“" Here, Mayers petitioned the circuit court for construction of the will pursuant to § 6-6-225(3), Ala. Code 1975, which authorizes an administrator to seek a declaration of rights "[t]o determine any question arising in the administration of the estate …, including questions of…”
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