Table of Contents TITLE 72. ESTATES, TRUSTS, AND FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS CHAPTER 33. TRUST CODE GENERAL PROVISIONS Part 2. Creation and Validity of Trusts Resulting and Constructive Trusts
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Mont. Code Ann. § 72-33-202

(2003)

Intention to create trust

A trust is created only if the trustor properly manifests an intention to create a trust.

Opinions construing this section

2 opinions
2014 MT 69 Mar 12, 2014 Affirmed in part, reversed in part
New Hope v. Faith Lutheran
Majority by Jim Rice · 7 to 0
ther person as trustee.” Section 72-33-201, MCA (2009). A trust could be created “only if the trustor properly manifests an intention to create a trust,” § 72-33-202, MCA (2009), and was subject to the requirements of the statute of frauds if not created by operation of law, § 72-33-208, MCA (2009). These same basic requiremen
2011 MT 224 Sep 13, 2011 Affirmed in part, reversed in part
Boehm v. Cokedale
Majority by Beth Baker · 5 to 0
provisions, missing here—as evidenced by the “trust” Boehm described in his deposition—include a proper manifestation of a trustor to create a trust (§ 72-33-202, MCA); a trust purpose that can be determined with reasonable certainty (§ 72-33-205, MCA); a designated beneficiary or a trust instrument providing a way to deter
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History:
En. Sec. 10, Ch. 685, L. 1989
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