Montana
What Montana law says about deposits, firings, overtime, collectors and accidents — and where each claim gets filed.
5 guides written for this state
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| claim | free route | statute |
|---|---|---|
| Landlord & tenant a landlord keeping my deposit | — | Mont. Code Ann. § 70-25-202 |
| Employment unpaid overtime | The Department of Labor and Industry takes an online wage claim, and it is one of the few state offices that says on its own page that it enforces the federal Fair Labor Standards Act as well as Montana's own wage and overtime law. The alternative it names is filing in District Court instead.↗ | — |
| Consumer a debt collector harassing me | The Office of Consumer Protection at the Department of Justice takes the complaint on its own form, and debt collection is one of the subjects it names alongside contract disputes, credit card issues and billing disputes. It asks you to try the business first and to explain what you did in good faith to resolve it. Investigators evaluate the complaint and keep it on file to monitor illegal practices in the marketplace, which is the honest description of what one complaint does.↗ | — |
| Employment being fired for complaining | Your EEOC deadline here is 300 days and not the 180 you will read almost everywhere, because the Human Rights Bureau at the Department of Labor and Industry exists — that agency is the whole of what triggers the extension in 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-5(e)(1). The Bureau puts it bluntly: you have only 180 days from when the act happened, or from when you discovered it, to have a written complaint filed. Work back from the state date. Meet that one and the federal one takes care of itself.↗ | — |
| Injury a car accident | — | Mont. Code § 27-2-204(1) |
free route · 3 of 5 jurisdictions carry this column.
statute · 2 of 5 jurisdictions carry this column.
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