# Mont. Code Ann. § 72-2-240: 72-2-240 Personal liability of recipients

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URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/statutes/STATE_MT_T72_C2_P2_S72-2-240

## Section

- **Citation:** Mont. Code Ann. § 72-2-240
- **Heading:** 72-2-240 Personal liability of recipients
- **Jurisdiction:** Montana
- **Kind:** Statutes
- **Status:** In force
- **Text as of:** August 14, 2026
- **Source:** Compiled text
- **Location:** MT Code / Title 72 / Chapter 2 / Part 2 / Section 72-2-240

## Text

72-2-240 . Personal liability of recipients. (1) Only original recipients of the decedent's nonprobate transfers to others, and the donees of the recipients of the decedent's nonprobate transfers to others, to the extent the donees have the property or its proceeds, are liable to make a proportional contribution toward satisfaction of the surviving spouse's elective-share or supplemental elective-share amount. A person liable to make contribution may choose to give up the proportional part of the decedent's nonprobate transfers to the person or to pay the value of the amount for which the person is liable.

(2) If any section or part of any section of this part is preempted by federal law with respect to a payment, an item of property, or any other benefit included in the decedent's nonprobate transfers to others, a person who, not for value, receives the payment, item of property, or other benefit is obligated to return that payment, item of property, or benefit or is personally liable for the amount of that payment or the value of that item of property or benefit, as provided in 72-2-239 , to the person who would have been entitled to it were that section or part of that section not preempted.

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