Montana Code Annotated 1999

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     35-21-833. Joint tenants. (1) In a conveyance to two or more persons as joint tenants, each joint tenant has a vested right of interment in the plot conveyed.
     (2) Upon the death of a joint tenant, the title to the plot held in joint tenancy immediately vests in the survivors, subject to the vested right of interment of the remains of the deceased joint tenant.
     (3) An affidavit by any person having knowledge of the facts setting forth the fact of the death of one joint tenant and establishing the identity of the surviving joint tenants named in the deed to any plot, when filed with the mausoleum-columbarium authority operating the mausoleum-columbarium in which the plot is located, is a complete authorization to the mausoleum-columbarium authority to permit the use of the unoccupied portion of the plot in accordance with the directions of the surviving joint tenants or their successors in interest.

     History: En. Sec. 18, Ch. 283, L. 1999.

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