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Section 1 - Causes for Divorce; General Provisions - Section 1. A divorce from the bond of matrimony may...
Section 1a - Causes for Divorce; Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage; Commencement of Action; Complaint Accompanied by Statement and Dissolution Agreement; Procedure - Section 1A. An action for divorce on the ground of...
Section 1b - Causes for Divorce; Irretrievable Breakdown of Marriage; Commencement of Action; Waiting Period; Unaccompanied Complaint; Procedure - Section 1B. An action for divorce on the ground of...
Section 2 - Causes for Divorce; Confinement for Crime - Section 2. A divorce may also be adjudged if either...
Section 3 - Causes for Divorce; Absence; Presumption of Death - Section 3. A divorce may be adjudged for any of...
Section 4 - Causes for Divorce; Domicile of Parties - Section 4. A divorce shall not, except as provided in...
Section 5 - Causes for Divorce; Exceptions to Sec. 4 - Section 5. If the plaintiff has lived in this commonwealth...
Section 6 - Venue of Libel - Section 6. Actions for divorce shall be filed, heard and...
Section 6b - Filing of Action; Statistical Report - Section 6B. An action for divorce shall be commenced in...
Section 8 - Commencement of Actions - Section 8. Actions for divorce in the probate courts shall...
Section 11 - Ex Parte Hearing; Allowance or Denial of Motion to Insert Name of Third Person - Section 11. The evidence produced at such ex parte hearing...
Section 12 - Libels for Divorce; Spouse's Property; Attachment - Section 12. Upon an action for divorce by either spouse...
Section 13 - Libels for Divorce; Attachment; Manner - Section 13. The attachment may be made upon the summons...
Section 14 - Libels for Divorce; Attachments; Laws Applicable - Section 14. The laws relative to attachments of real or...
Section 15 - Libels for Divorce; Mentally Ill Defendant; Appointment and Compensation of Guardian - Section 15. If during the pendency of an action for...
Section 16 - Investigation of Divorce Case - Section 16. Any judge of a probate court wherein any...
Section 17 - Pendency of Action; Allowance; Alimony - Section 17. The court may require either party to pay...
Section 18 - Pendency of Action for Divorce; Protection of Personal Liberty of Spouse; Restraint Orders Authorized - Section 18. The probate court in which the action for...
Section 19 - Pendency of Action for Divorce; Custody of Children - Section 19. The court may in like manner, upon application...
Section 20 - Continuance of Action; Temporary Separation - Section 20. The court may, without entering a judgment of...
Section 20a - Judgment Denying Divorce; Living Apart for Justifiable Cause; Authorization - Section 20A. If, after a hearing, the allegations of an...
Section 21 - Divorce Judgments; Entry - Section 21. Judgments of divorce shall in the first instance...
Section 22 - Libels for Divorce; Desertion; Proof - Section 22. In order to establish grounds for divorce for...
Section 23 - Resumption of Former Name by Woman - Section 23. The court granting a divorce may allow a...
Section 24 - Divorced Parties; Remarriage - Section 24. After a judgment of divorce has become absolute,...
Section 24a - Certificate of Divorce; Contents - Section 24A. The court, in issuing a copy of, or...
Section 25 - Divorce for Adultery of Wife; Legitimacy of Issue - Section 25. A divorce for adultery committed by the wife...
Section 27 - Curtesy or Dower After Divorce - Section 27. After a divorce, a husband or wife shall...
Section 28 - Children; Care, Custody and Maintenance; Child Support Obligations; Provisions for Education and Health Insurance; Parents Convicted of First Degree Murder - Section 28. Upon a judgment for divorce, the court may...
Section 28a - Temporary Care; Custody and Maintenance of Minor Children - Section 28A. During the pendency of an action seeking a...
Section 29 - Minor Children; Foreign Divorces, Care and Custody - Section 29. If, after a divorce has been adjudged in...
Section 30 - Minor Children; Removal From Commonwealth; Prohibition - Section 30. A minor child of divorced parents who is...
Section 31 - Custody of Children; Shared Custody Plans - Section 31. For the purposes of this section, the following...
Section 31a - Visitation and Custody Orders; Consideration of Abuse Toward Parent or Child; Best Interest of Child - Section 31A. In issuing any temporary or permanent custody order,...
Section 32 - Child; Bringing Before Court; Writ of Habeas Corpus - Section 32. Any court having jurisdiction of actions for divorce...
Section 33 - Jurisdiction; Procedure - Section 33. The court may, if the course of proceeding...
Section 34 - Alimony or Assignment of Estate; Determination of Amount; Health Insurance - Section 34. Upon divorce or upon a complaint in an...
Section 34a - Alimony Judgment Ordering Conveyance; Effect - Section 34A. Whenever a judgment for alimony shall be made...
Section 34b - Order to Vacate Marital Home - Section 34B. Any court having jurisdiction of actions for divorce,...
Section 34c - Orders to Vacate Marital Home and Orders of Restraint; Notice to Law Enforcement Agencies; Procedures; Violations - Section 34C. Whenever a division of the probate and family...
Section 34d - Request for Restraining Order or Order to Vacate Marital Home; Information Provided to Petitioner Upon Filing; Domestic Violence Record Search; Outstanding Warrants - Section 34D. Upon the filing of a request for a...
Section 35 - Alimony; Enforcement - Section 35. The court may enforce judgments, including foreign decrees,...
Section 36 - Security for Payment of Alimony or Support; Enforcement of Judgments or Orders - Section 36. When alimony or support is adjudged for the...
Section 36a - Continuing Jurisdiction to Enforce Alimony, Support and Maintenance or Child Support; Order for Trustee Process - Section 36A. (1) In any case in which an obligor...
Section 37 - Alimony; Revision of Judgment - Section 37. After a judgment for alimony or an annual...
Section 38 - Costs - Section 38. In any proceeding under this chapter, whether original...
Section 39 - Foreign Divorces; Validity - Section 39. A divorce adjudged in another jurisdiction according to...
Section 40 - Cohabitation After Divorce - Section 40. Persons divorced from each other cohabiting as husband...
Section 41 - Personation - Section 41. Whoever falsely personates another or wilfully and fraudulently...
Section 42 - Procurement of Unlawful Divorce - Section 42. Whoever knowingly procures or obtains or assists another...
Section 43 - Advertisement to Procure Divorce - Section 43. Whoever writes, prints or publishes, or solicits another...
Section 44 - Certificate of Divorce; Unlawful Issuance - Section 44. Whoever, except in compliance with an order of...
Section 45 - Criminal Offenses; Notice to District Attorney - Section 45. If a divorce is granted for a cause...
Section 46 - Statistical Reports; Additional Information - Section 46. The registers of probate shall receive the statistical...
Section 48 - Definitions Applicable to Secs. 49 to 55 - Section 48. As used in sections 49 to 55, inclusive,...
Section 49 - Termination, Suspension or Modification of General Term Alimony - Section 49. (a) General term alimony shall terminate upon the...
Section 50 - Termination, Extension or Modification of Rehabilitative Alimony - Section 50. (a) Rehabilitative alimony shall terminate upon the remarriage...
Section 51 - Termination of Reimbursement Alimony; Modification; Applicability of Income Guidelines - Section 51. (a) Reimbursement alimony shall terminate upon the death...
Section 52 - Termination of Transitional Alimony; Modification or Extension - Section 52. (a) Transitional alimony shall terminate upon the death...
Section 53 - Determination of Form, Amount and Duration of Alimony; Maximum Amount; Income Calculation; Deviations; Concurrent Child Support Orders - Section 53. (a) In determining the appropriate form of alimony...
Section 54 - Remarriage of Payor; Income From Second Job or Overtime Work - Section 54. (a) In the event of the payor's remarriage,...
Section 55 - Reasonable Security for Alimony in Event of Payor's Death; Orders to Maintain Life Insurance; Modification of Orders - Section 55. (a) The court may require reasonable security for...