DEPT. OF REV., STATE OF MO. v. DWYER

No. 88-373.

771 P.2d 93 (1989)

DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE, STATE OF MONTANA, Appellant, v. ESTATE OF MICHAEL D. DWYER, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Montana.

Decided March 13, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

R. Bruce McGinnis, Dept. of Revenue, Legal Affairs, Helena, for appellant.

Robert T. O'Leary, Butte, for respondent.


SHEEHY, Justice.

We decide in this case that when the owner of real or personal property in Montana creates a joint tenancy in such property between himself and another or others, more than three years before his death, the tax levied by our state on the transfer of his joint tenancy interest upon his death is measured by his interest in the joint tenancy, one-half or other proper fraction under the written instrument creating the same. Section 72-16-303(2), MCA....

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