Massachusetts General Laws
Title III - Domestic Relations
Chapter 209 - Husband and Wife

Section 1 - Married Persons; Separate Property and Property Held as Tenants by Entirety; Liability for Debts - Section 1. The real and personal property of any person...

Section 1a - Tenants by Entirety Under Older Deed; Electing Treatment of Tenancy - Section 1A. Tenants by the entirety holding under a deed...

Section 2 - Married Woman; Power to Contract - Section 2. A married woman may make contracts, oral and...

Section 3 - Transfers Between Husband and Wife - Section 3. Transfers of real and personal property between husband...

Section 4 - Married Woman; Work and Labor; Presumption - Section 4. Work and labor performed by a married woman...

Section 5 - Married Woman; Acting as Fiduciary - Section 5. A married woman may be an executrix, administratrix,...

Section 6 - Married Woman; Power to Sue and Be Sued - Section 6. A married woman may sue and be sued...

Section 7 - Married Woman; Liabilities - Section 7. A married woman shall not be liable for...

Section 8 - Husband; Liability for Wife's Debts - Section 8. A husband shall not be liable upon a...

Section 9 - Husband; Liability on Contracts Concerning Separate Property of Wife - Section 9. Contracts made by a married woman relative to...

Section 13 - Marriage Settlements - Section 13. The preceding sections shall not invalidate a marriage...

Section 14 - Disability of Husband or Wife Provisions; Release of Homestead by Wife of Ward - Section 14. If the guardian or conservator of a married...

Section 15 - Disability of Husband or Wife Provisions; Wife of Ward; Joinder With Guardian or Conservator; Sale of Realty - Section 15. If such guardian or conservator is licensed to...

Section 16 - Disability of Husband or Wife Provisions; Disposition of Proceeds - Section 16. If the wife so releases her homestead, or...

Section 17 - Disability of Husband or Wife Provisions; Partition; Joinder of Husband or Wife of Ward With Guardian or Conservator - Section 17. The wife of a man under guardianship or...

Section 18 - Mentally Ill Persons; Conveyance or Mortgage of Real Estate; Release of Homestead - Section 18. The spouse of a person incapacitated by reason...

Section 21 - Mentally Ill Spouse; Reservation of Portion of Proceeds Upon Release of Homestead - Section 21. If the guardian of a married ward that...

Section 24 - Disability of Husband or Wife Provisions; Venue - Section 24. Proceedings under sections eighteen and twenty-one, if the...

Section 25 - Antenuptial Settlements; Force and Effect - Section 25. At any time before marriage, the parties may...

Section 26 - Antenuptial Settlements; Record; Description of Property - Section 26. A schedule of the property intended to be...

Section 28 - Rights of Married Person Coming From Another State or Country - Section 28. If a married person comes from another state...

Section 29 - Property Rights Acquired in Other States; Effect of Residence in This Commonwealth - Section 29. If a husband and his wife, married in...

Section 30 - Married Person Abandoned by Spouse; Sale or Conveyance; Notice to Opposing Absent Spouse; Jurisdiction of Court; Proof of Abandonment; Retransfer to Opposing Absent Party - Section 30. After the filing of a libel for divorce,...

Section 31 - Non-Resident Married Woman Abandoned by Husband; Conveyance of Realty - Section 31. A married woman residing without this commonwealth, and...

Section 32 - Married Person Abandoned by Spouse; Order Prohibiting Restraint of Personal Liberty of Spouse; Support, Custody and Maintenance Orders; Information Provided to Complainant; Domestic Violence Record Search; Investigations; Factors Determi... - Section 32. If a spouse fails, without justifiable cause, to...

Section 32d - Judgment for Separate Support; Conveyance of Real Property; Enforcement; Vesting of Title - Section 32D. Whenever in any proceeding under section thirty-two a...

Section 32e - Judgment or Order of Support; Enforcement - Section 32E. Each judgment or order of support which is...

Section 32f - Married Persons Living Apart; Actions for Support - Section 32F. (a) If no order for support pursuant to...

Section 33 - Separate Support or Maintenance; Attachment of Defendant's Property and Trustee Process - Section 33. In an action for separate support or maintenance,...

Section 34 - Married Person Abandoned by Spouse; Venue - Section 34. An action under section thirty-two or thirty-six may...

Section 36 - Married Person Abandoned by Spouse; Spouse Living Apart; Conveyance and Will - Section 36. A probate court may upon complaint of a...

Section 37 - Support Orders for Children of Separated Parents; Child Support Guidelines; Modification of Orders; Provisions for Education and Health Insurance; Parents Convicted of First Degree Murder - Section 37. If the parents of minor children live apart...

Section 38 - Visitation and Custody Orders; Consideration of Abuse Toward Parent or Child; Best Interest of Child - Section 38. In issuing any temporary or permanent custody order,...