Montana Code Annotated 2023

TITLE 72. ESTATES, TRUSTS, AND FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS

CHAPTER 7. UNIFORM POWERS OF APPOINTMENT ACT

Part 5. Rights of Powerholder's Creditors in Appointive Property

Creditor Claim -- Nongeneral Power

72-7-504. Creditor claim -- nongeneral power. (1) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (2) and (3), appointive property subject to a nongeneral power of appointment is exempt from a claim of a creditor of the powerholder or the powerholder's estate.

(2) Appointive property subject to a nongeneral power of appointment is subject to a claim of a creditor of the powerholder or the powerholder's estate to the extent that the powerholder owned the property and, reserving the nongeneral power, transferred the property in violation of the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, 31-2-326 through 31-2-342.

(3) If the initial gift in default of appointment is to the powerholder or the powerholder's estate, a nongeneral power of appointment is treated for purposes of this act as a general power.

History: En. Sec. 35, Ch. 293, L. 2015.