Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 9. JUDGMENT

Part 7. Uniform Foreign-Money Claims Act

Asserting And Defending Foreign-Money Claim

25-9-707. Asserting and defending foreign-money claim. (1) A person may assert a claim in a specified foreign money. If a foreign-money claim is not asserted, the claimant makes the claim in United States dollars.

(2) An opposing party may allege and prove that a claim, in whole or in part, is in a different money than that asserted by the claimant.

(3) A person may assert a defense, setoff, recoupment, or counterclaim in any money without regard to the money of other claims.

(4) The determination of the proper money of the claim is a question of law.

History: En. Sec. 7, Ch. 152, L. 1993.