Montana Title 32. Financial Institutions § 32-2-1017. Payment of claims

(1) Claims presented to the department prior to the expiration of the time fixed in the notice to creditors and allowed by it must be paid in the order of the priority fixed in this chapter.

(2) Those claims filed after that expiration and within 1 year of that expiration are entitled, after they have been allowed by the department, to share in the distribution of the assets of the mutual association only to the extent of the assets undistributed in the hands of the department and available for the payment of claims of their order of priority at the time claims are filed.

(3) All claims filed after the expiration of 1 year following the date fixed in the notice to creditors as the time for presentation of claims are not entitled to be allowed or paid unless all other creditors' claims of any kind have been fully paid and a surplus remains in the hands of the department and then only from that surplus.

(4) If the federal deposit insurance corporation is appointed as the liquidating agent, the times fixed in subsections (1) through (3) do not apply and claims must be filed in accordance with times fixed pursuant to federal law.