72-38-120. Resulting trust upon failure of trust. When the owner of property gratuitously transfers it and manifests in the trust instrument an intention that the transferee should hold the property in trust but the trust fails, the transferee holds the trust estate as a resulting trust for the transferor or the transferor's estate unless:
(1) the transferor manifested in the trust instrument an intention that no resulting trust should arise; or
(2) the intended trust fails for illegality and the policy against unjust enrichment of the transferee is outweighed by the policy against giving relief to a person who has entered into an illegal transaction.
History: En. Sec. 14, Ch. 264, L. 2013.
Structure Montana Code Annotated
Title 72. Estates, Trusts, and Fiduciary Relationships
Chapter 38. Montana Uniform Trust Code
72-38-105. Default and mandatory rules
72-38-106. Common law of trusts -- principles of equity
72-38-108. Principal place of administration
72-38-109. Methods and waiver of notice
72-38-110. Others treated as qualified beneficiaries
72-38-111. Nonjudicial settlement agreements
72-38-112. Rules of construction
72-38-113. Insurable interest of trustee
72-38-114. through 72-38-119 reserved
72-38-120. Resulting trust upon failure of trust
72-38-121. Resulting trust upon full performance of trust
72-38-122. Purchase money resulting trust
72-38-124. Resulting trusts -- constructive trusts -- statute of frauds
72-38-125. through 72-38-129 reserved
72-38-130. Scope and effect of part -- proposed action or inaction described
72-38-131. When use of notice authorized
72-38-133. Objection to proposed action or inaction -- petition -- liability of trustee