Montana Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church v. Estate of Miller Ex Rel. Harr

Plaintiff, Montana Conference of the Seventh Day Adventist Church (Conference), appeals from a declaratory judgment of the Missoula County District Court holding that a personal guardianship and a property conservatorship did not prevent Sophie Miller from revoking a trust in which the Conference was both the trustee and a beneficiary in the event of her death or “incompetency.”

Although the issues can be stated in various ways, the essence of this appeal is the claim by the Conference that because Sophie Miller was under a personal guardianship and her property was under a conservatorship,…