72-2-818. Definitions. As used in 72-2-817 through 72-2-833, the following definitions apply:
(1) "Disclaimant" means the person to whom a disclaimed interest or power would have passed had the disclaimer not been made.
(2) "Disclaimed interest" means the interest that would have passed to the disclaimant had the disclaimer not been made.
(3) "Disclaimer" means the refusal to accept an interest in or power over property.
(4) "Fiduciary" means a personal representative, trustee, agent acting under a power of attorney, or other person authorized to act as a fiduciary with respect to the property of another person.
(5) "Jointly held property" means property held in the name of two or more persons under an arrangement in which all holders have concurrent interests and under which the last surviving holder is entitled to the whole of the property.
(6) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government; governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity.
(7) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The term includes an Indian tribe or band, or Alaskan native village, recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state.
(8) "Trust" means:
(a) an express trust, charitable or noncharitable, with additions thereto, whenever and however created; and
(b) a trust created pursuant to a statute, judgment, or decree which requires the trust to be administered in the manner of an express trust.
History: En. Sec. 40, Ch. 313, L. 2019.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 72. Estates, Trusts, and Fiduciary Relationships
Chapter 2. Upc -- Intestacy, Wills, and Donative Transfers
Part 8. General Provisions Concerning Probate and Nonprobate Transfers
72-2-805. through 72-2-810 reserved
72-2-812. Effect of divorce, annulment, or decree of separation
72-2-815. Reformation to correct mistakes
72-2-816. Modification to achieve transferor's tax objectives
72-2-820. Sections supplemented by other law
72-2-821. Power to disclaim -- general requirements -- when revocable
72-2-822. Disclaimer of interest in property
72-2-823. Disclaimer of rights of survivorship in jointly held property
72-2-824. Disclaimer of interest by trustee
72-2-825. Disclaimer of power of appointment or other power not held in fiduciary capacity
72-2-826. Disclaimer by appointee, object, or taker in default of exercise of power of appointment
72-2-827. Disclaimer of power held in fiduciary capacity
72-2-829. When disclaimer barred or limited
72-2-830. Tax qualified disclaimer
72-2-831. Recording of disclaimer
72-2-832. Application to existing relationships
72-2-833. Relation to electronic signatures in global and national commerce act