Montana Code Annotated
Part 1. Separation -- Dissolution of Marriage
40-4-101. Purposes

40-4-101. Purposes. This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes, which are to:
(1) strengthen and preserve the integrity of marriage and safeguard family relationships;
(2) promote the amicable settlement of disputes that have arisen between parties to a marriage;
(3) mitigate the potential harm to the spouses and their children caused by the process of legal dissolution of marriage;
(4) make reasonable provision for spouse and minor children during and after litigation; and
(5) make the law of legal dissolution of marriage effective for dealing with the realities of matrimonial experience by making irretrievable breakdown of the marriage relationship the sole basis for its dissolution.
History: En. 48-302 by Sec. 2, Ch. 536, L. 1975; R.C.M. 1947, 48-302(part).

Structure Montana Code Annotated

Montana Code Annotated

Title 40. Family Law

Chapter 4. Termination of Marriage, Child Custody, Support

Part 1. Separation -- Dissolution of Marriage

40-4-101. Purposes

40-4-102. Uniformity of application and construction

40-4-103. Application of Montana Rules of Civil Procedure

40-4-104. Dissolution of marriage -- legal separation

40-4-105. Procedure -- commencement -- pleadings -- abolition of existing defenses

40-4-106. Renumbered 40-4-121

40-4-107. Irretrievable breakdown

40-4-108. Decree

40-4-109. Independence of provisions of decree or temporary order

40-4-110. Costs -- professional fees

40-4-111. through 40-4-120 reserved

40-4-121. Temporary order for maintenance or support, temporary injunction, or temporary restraining order

40-4-122. Forms -- distribution -- filing

40-4-123. Jurisdiction and venue

40-4-124. Review or removal -- district court

40-4-125. Registration of orders

40-4-126. Automatic economic restraining order

40-4-127. through 40-4-129 reserved

40-4-130. Summary dissolution -- conditions necessary at commencement of proceedings

40-4-131. Joint petition -- filing -- form -- contents

40-4-132. Revocation of joint petition -- termination of proceeding -- notice -- copy to other party

40-4-133. Hearing and final judgment -- entry -- effect

40-4-134. Final judgment as final adjudication of rights and obligations

40-4-135. Actions to set aside final judgment

40-4-136. Brochure to describe proceedings -- availability -- distribution -- contents and form