Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 72. ESTATES, TRUSTS, AND FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS

CHAPTER 6. NONPROBATE TRANSFERS ON DEATH

Part 2. Multiple-Party Accounts

Designation Of Agent

72-6-205. Designation of agent. (1) By a writing signed by all parties, the parties may designate as agent of all parties on an account a person other than a party.

(2) Unless the terms of an agency designation provide that the authority of the agent terminates on disability or incapacity of a party, the agent's authority survives disability and incapacity. The agent may act for a disabled or incapacitated party until the authority of the agent is terminated.

(3) Death of the sole party or last-surviving party terminates the authority of an agent.

History: En. Sec. 88, Ch. 494, L. 1993.