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Section 1 - Divisions; Definitions; Courts of Record - Section 1. The probate and family court department established under...
Section 2 - Superior Jurisdiction; Presumption - Section 2. Probate courts shall be courts of superior and...
Section 3 - Courts and Their Jurisdictions; General Provisions - Section 3. Probate courts shall have jurisdiction of probate of...
Section 4 - Courts and Their Jurisdictions; Separate Estates of Married Women; Paternity, Custody and Support of Minors - Section 4. Probate courts shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of...
Section 5 - Courts and Their Jurisdictions; French Spoliation Awards - Section 5. Probate courts shall have exclusive original jurisdiction of...
Section 6 - Courts and Their Jurisdictions; Equity Jurisdiction - Section 6. The probate and family court department shall have...
Section 6a - Courts and Their Jurisdictions; Attachment by Injunction - Section 6A. In any proceeding before a probate court, an...
Section 6c - Courts and Their Jurisdictions; Modification of Judgment as to Care and Custody of Minor Children; Temporary Orders - Section 6C. Upon a complaint, after a judgment pursuant to...
Section 7 - Attachment of Jurisdiction; Control of Case - Section 7. If a case is within the jurisdiction of...
Section 8a - Courts and Their Jurisdictions; Change of Venue - Section 8A. If it appears before final judgment or decree...
Section 9 - Persons Entitled to Appeal - Section 9. A person aggrieved by an order, judgment, decree...
Section 9a - Fiduciaries; Acts During Appeal Period - Section 9A. The acts of an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator...
Section 10 - Appellate Procedure - Section 10. The procedure upon an appeal from an order,...
Section 11 - Appeals; Report of Facts - Section 11. In cases not governed by the Massachusetts Rules...
Section 13 - Reservation and Report of Case to Appeals Court - Section 13. A judge of the probate court by whom...
Section 14 - Interlocutory Judgments and Decrees; Revision on Appeal From Final Judgments or Decrees - Section 14. Interlocutory judgments and decrees not appealed from shall...
Section 17 - Appeals; Insolvent Estates - Section 17. In the case of an estate of a...
Section 18 - Appeals; Stenographers; Appointment - Section 18. At the trial of any issue of fact...
Section 19 - Consolidation of Appeals by Appellant - Section 19. An appellant from decrees of a probate court...
Section 20 - Consolidation of Appeals by Court - Section 20. The supreme judicial court may at any time,...
Section 22 - Effect of Appeal; Interlocutory Orders - Section 22. After an appeal has been claimed and filed...
Section 23 - Effect of Appeal; Equity Cases - Section 23. An appeal from a final or interlocutory order...
Section 24 - Effect of Appeal; Separate Support and Custody Cases - Section 24. The preceding section shall apply to orders or...
Section 25 - Removal of Fiduciary; Effect of Appeal - Section 25. A decree of a probate court removing an...
Section 26 - Appeals; Decree; Force and Effect - Section 26. A decree of a probate court made under...
Section 27 - Pending Appeals; Modification of Decrees - Section 27. After an appeal is claimed from an order...
Section 28 - Appeals; Reversal or Affirmance - Section 28. The supreme judicial court or appeals court may,...
Section 30 - Rules and Forms; Power of Judges to Make - Section 30. The judges of the probate courts or a...
Section 31 - Notice of Hearing; Rule Making Power of Courts - Section 31. The supreme judicial court and the probate courts...
Section 32 - Transaction of Business Out of Court - Section 32. Judges of the probate courts may transact business...
Section 33 - Notice; Ex Parte Matters - Section 33. Orders of notice and other official acts which...
Section 34 - Enforcement of Orders, Sentences, Judgments and Decrees; Punishing Contempts; Effect of Arrearages on Support Orders; Unemployment of Defendant - Section 34. Probate courts shall have like power and authority...
Section 34a - Contempt; Support or Custody Orders; Costs; Service; Attorney's Fees; Interest; Iv–d Agency; Arrest Warrants - Section 34A. (a) Actions for contempt against any party for...
Section 34b - Review of Contempt Order Prior to Order of Confinement - Section 34B. A judge of the probate court who has...
Section 35 - Warrants and Commissions; Revocation - Section 35. A warrant or commission for the appraisal of...
Section 36 - Judgments, Decrees and Orders; Necessity of Writing; Notices; Recording - Section 36. Judgments, decrees and orders of probate courts shall...
Section 37 - Docket and Index; Manner of Keeping; Public Inspection - Section 37. Each register shall keep a docket of all...
Section 38 - Oaths - Section 38. Oaths required in proceedings in the probate courts...
Section 39 - Administration of Estates; Compensation for Services; Power to Determine and Enforce - Section 39. Probate courts may ascertain and determine the amount...
Section 39a - Attorneys' Fees; Power of Court to Determine - Section 39A. At any time during the administration of an...
Section 39b - Attorneys' Fees; Allowance - Section 39B. When a judgment or decree is entered in...
Section 40 - Resignation or Removal of Fiduciary; Power to Compel Surrender of Property - Section 40. If an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee or...
Section 41 - Temporary Investments - Section 41. A probate court may, upon application of a...
Section 41a - Distribution of Limited Funds of Estates to Parents of Minors - Section 41A. A probate court may, upon application of an...
Section 42 - Appearances - Section 42. A duly authorized attorney at law may enter...
Section 43 - Interrogatories - Section 43. In any proceeding in a probate court, the...
Section 44 - Concealed Property; Examination of Suspects Under Oath - Section 44. Upon complaint to a probate court by a...
Section 45 - Costs - Section 45. In contested cases before a probate court or...
Section 46 - Summons or Citation; Service by Registered Mail - Section 46. When personal service is required of any summons...
Section 47 - Waiver of Notice - Section 47. The notice required in any proceeding in a...
Section 49 - Notices; Selection of Newspapers - Section 49. Parties to probate proceedings may select the newspapers...
Section 50 - Receipts and Releases of Fiduciaries; Recording; Fees - Section 50. A paper or instrument, discharging a claim or...
Section 52 - Original Will; Taking From Registry - Section 52. The probate court in which a will has...
Section 53 - Court Room and Room for Records; Duty to Provide - Section 53. The commonwealth shall provide and maintain suitable rooms...
Section 54 - Rooms for Records; Additional Space - Section 54. If in the opinion of the court administrator...
Section 55 - Preservation of Dockets and Indexes - Section 55. If in the judgment of the chief justice...
Section 56 - Recording of Proceedings in Suffolk; Expense - Section 56. The expense of recording probate proceedings in Suffolk...
Section 56a - Investigations - Section 56A. Any judge of a probate court may appoint...
Section 56b - Contempt Proceedings Involving Child Care, Custody or Maintenance; Guardian Ad Litem; Appointment - Section 56B. Any judge of a probate court may appoint...
Section 56c - Transmission of Order of Probate Court Appointing Guardian or Conservator for Incapacitated Person to Department of Criminal Justice Information Services for Consideration in Background Checks for Firearm Sales or Licensing; Petition to... - Section 56C. (a) Notwithstanding any general or special law, to...
Section 57 - Sessions of the Courts; Contempt Powers of Judge, Etc. - Section 57. The judge of a probate court may keep...
Section 58 - Sessions of the Courts; Open Times - Section 58. The probate court shall be open daily on...
Section 59 - Sessions of the Courts; Adjournment - Section 59. A judge of a probate court may adjourn...
Section 60 - Sessions of the Courts; Holidays and Election Days - Section 60. If the regular time for holding a probate...
Section 62 - Times and Places for Holding Courts - Section 62. The court shall be held by one of...