Montana Code Annotated 2019

TITLE 72. ESTATES, TRUSTS, AND FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS

CHAPTER 7. UNIFORM POWERS OF APPOINTMENT ACT

Part 3. Exercise of Power of Appointment

Disposition Of Unappointed Property Under Released Or Unexercised General Power

72-7-310. Disposition of unappointed property under released or unexercised general power. To the extent a powerholder releases or fails to exercise a general power of appointment, other than a power to withdraw property from, revoke, or amend a trust:

(1) the gift-in-default clause controls the disposition of the unappointed property; or

(2) if there is no gift-in-default clause or to the extent the clause is ineffective:

(a) except as otherwise provided in subsection (2)(b), the unappointed property passes to:

(i) the powerholder if the powerholder is a permissible appointee and living; or

(ii) if the powerholder is an impermissible appointee or deceased, the powerholder's estate if the estate is a permissible appointee; or

(b) to the extent the powerholder released the power or if there is no taker under subsection (2)(a), the unappointed property passes under a reversionary interest to the donor or the donor's transferee or successor in interest.

History: En. Sec. 20, Ch. 293, L. 2015.