Short answer. Yes. Rule 63, Section 1 of the Rules of Court allows any person interested under a written contract to file a petition for declaratory relief before any breach or violation, asking the Regional Trial Court to determine questions of construction or validity and to declare the parties' rights and duties under the instrument.
What the law says
before breach or violation thereof, bring an action in the appropriate Regional Trial Court to determine any question of construction or validity arising, and for a declaration of his rights or duties, thereunder
Rule 63, Section 1 — Who may file petition. Read the full provision →
What the law says
An action for the reformation of an instrument, to quiet title to real property or remove clouds therefrom
Rule 63, Section 1 — Who may file petition. Read the full provision →
A remedy that works before the dispute ripens
Most lawsuits look backwards: something has already gone wrong, and the court repairs it. Declaratory relief is the exception. Rule 63 lets a party who is interested under a deed, will, contract or other written instrument go to court while the relationship is still intact, precisely because the parties read a clause differently and neither wants to act at its peril. The court's judgment settles what the contract means — any question of construction or validity arising — so both sides can perform with certainty instead of gambling that their own reading will survive a later breach suit.
Who may file, and in which court
The Rule opens the remedy to any person interested under a deed, will, contract or other written instrument, and separately to anyone whose rights are affected by a statute, executive order or regulation, ordinance, or any other governmental regulation. For contracts, that means a party or someone whose rights genuinely turn on the document — a stranger to the instrument has nothing for the court to declare. The petition is filed in the appropriate Regional Trial Court, which is where the Rule places the action.
Timing: it must come before breach
The window is written into the text: the action may be brought before breach or violation thereof. That phrase is the boundary of the remedy. Once a party has already broken the contract, there is nothing left to declare in the abstract — the dispute has ripened into one for ordinary relief, such as damages or enforcement, and a petition for declaratory relief filed after the fact asks the wrong question. If you sense a disagreement building over what a clause requires, the time to act is while both sides are still performing.
Related actions the same Rule covers
Rule 63 is not limited to pure interpretation. It also provides that An action for the reformation of an instrument, to quiet title to real property or remove clouds therefrom, or to consolidate ownership may be brought under it. So if the real problem is that the written contract does not reflect what was actually agreed, reformation — not declaratory relief — is the fit. Before seeing a lawyer, gather the instrument itself and the correspondence showing how each side reads the disputed clause; the petition stands or falls on that document and the live disagreement over it.