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Montana · Through Montana Code Annotated 2025

72-1-206: Oath or affirmation on filed documents.

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  1. TITLE 72. ESTATES, TRUSTS, AND FIDUCIARY RELATIONSHIPS
  2. CHAPTER 1. UNIFORM PROBATE CODE GENERAL PROVISIONS
  3. Part 2. Scope, Jurisdiction, and Courts

(1) Except as otherwise specifically provided in this code, every document filed with the court under this code, including applications, petitions, reports, accounts, objections, responses, and demands for notice, must include an oath, affirmation, declaration under penalty of perjury as provided in 1-6-105, or statement to the effect that its representations are true as far as the person executing or filing it knows or is informed.

(2) A deliberate falsification of any document filed with the court pursuant to this section constitutes the offense of perjury and is punishable as the offense of false swearing.

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