Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 25. CIVIL PROCEDURE

CHAPTER 9. JUDGMENT

Part 5. Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments

Stay

25-9-505. Stay. (1) If the judgment debtor shows a district court that an appeal from the foreign judgment is pending or will be taken or that a stay of execution has been granted, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment until the appeal is concluded, the time for appeal expires, or the stay of execution expires or is vacated, upon proof that the judgment debtor has furnished the security for the satisfaction of the judgment required by the state in which it was rendered.

(2) If the judgment debtor shows the district court any ground upon which enforcement of a judgment of any district court of this state would be stayed, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment for an appropriate period, upon requiring the same security for satisfaction of a judgment that is required in this state.

History: En. Sec. 5, Ch. 66, L. 1989.