Use this form to assign a previously recorded Trust Indenture/Deed of Trust security instrument to another party. This is common when a Deed of Trust has been sold.

(Trust indenture - means an indenture executed in conformity with this part and conveying real property to a trustee in trust to secure the performance of an obligation of the grantor or other person named in the indenture to a beneficiary.) (71-1-303(6)) Definitions

71-1-207 Recording of mortgages and assignments

(1) Mortgages of real property may be acknowledged or proved, certified, and recorded in the same manner and with the same effect as grants of real property.

(2) An assignment of a real estate mortgage may be recorded in the same manner as a real estate mortgage, and the record operates as legal notice to the mortgagor and all persons subsequently deriving title to the mortgage from the assignor as well as to all other persons, including subsequent purchasers, encumbrancers, mortgagees, or other lienholders. An assignment must contain the assignee's post-office address at the assignee's place of residence and may not be recorded or filed unless it contains the post-office address.

(Montana AOTI Package includes form, guidelines, and completed example) For use in Montana only.

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