1. MCA Contents
  2. TITLE 25
  3. CHAPTER 13
  4. Part 1
  5. 25-13-101 Time limit for issuing execution

Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 13. EXECUTION OF JUDGMENT

Part 1. Right to Enforcement of Judgment

Time Limit For Issuing Execution

25-13-101. Time limit for issuing execution. (1) The party in whose favor the judgment is given may, at any time within the time period prescribed in 27-2-201(1) and (2), have a writ of execution issued for its enforcement.

(2) When the judgment is for the payment of child support, the party in whose favor the judgment is given may, at any time within 10 years after the termination of the support obligation or within 10 years from entry of a lump-sum judgment or order for support arrears, whichever is later, have a writ of execution issued for its enforcement.

History: En. Sec. 183, p. 79, Bannack Stat.; re-en. Sec. 209, p. 176, L. 1867; re-en. Sec. 250, p. 80, Cod. Stat. 1871; amd. Sec. 301, p. 118, L. 1877; re-en. Sec. 301, 1st Div. Rev. Stat. 1879; re-en. Sec. 312, 1st Div. Comp. Stat. 1887; amd. Sec. 1210, C. Civ. Proc. 1895; re-en. Sec. 6813, Rev. C. 1907; re-en. Sec. 9416, R.C.M. 1921; Cal. C. Civ. Proc. Sec. 681; re-en. Sec. 9416, R.C.M. 1935; R.C.M. 1947, 93-5801; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 631, L. 1993; amd. Sec. 4, Ch. 60, L. 1995; amd. Sec. 7, Ch. 515, L. 2001.