NJSA 2A:16-55. Declaration of rights or legal relations of interested parties in relation to estates, wills and other writings
A person interested as or through an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors or other fiduciary, 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, insolvent or other person may have a declaration of rights or legal relations in respect thereto, to:
a. Ascertain any class of creditors, devisees, legatees, heirs, next of kin or others; or
b. Direct the executor, administrator, trustee, guardian, receiver, assignee for the benefit of creditors or other fiduciary to do or abstain from doing any particular act in his fiduciary capacity; or
c. Determine any question arising in the administration of the estate, trust or guardianship, including the construction of wills and other writings.
