Massachusetts General Laws
Chapter 205 - Bonds of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers
Section 19a - Joint Control of Trust Estates; Agreements Between Fiduciaries and Sureties; Authorization

Section 19A. Any receiver, assignee, guardian, conservator, trustee, executor, administrator or other fiduciary, or party from whom a bond is required, may agree and arrange with his sureties for the deposit for safekeeping of any or all moneys, assets, and other property for which he is or may be responsible with a bank, savings bank, safe deposit or trust company authorized by law to do business as such in the commonwealth, or to deposit such moneys on paid-up shares and accounts of and in a co-operative bank or to invest such moneys in the purchase of share accounts or in savings deposits accounts of a federal savings and loan association or to invest such moneys in the purchase of share accounts of a savings and loan association located in the commonwealth, and in such manner as to prevent the withdrawal or alienation of such money, assets or other property or any part thereof, without the written consent of such sureties, or an order of the court in which said bond is filed, or of a judge thereof, made on such notice to such sureties as the court or judge may direct.

Structure Massachusetts General Laws

Massachusetts General Laws

Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations

Title II - Descent and Distribution, Wills, Estates of Deceased Persons and Absentees, Guardianship, Conservatorship and Trusts

Chapter 205 - Bonds of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers

Section 1 - Bond of Receiver of Absentee or Guardian

Section 6a - Surety Not Required on Bonds Filed by National Banks

Section 9 - Sureties on Bonds; Requirements

Section 10 - Approval by Judge or Register

Section 11 - Joint Fiduciaries; Joint or Separate Bonds

Section 12 - Joint Executors; Failure to Give Bond; Effect

Section 13 - Fiduciary; License to Sell or Mortgage Realty; Additional Bond

Section 14 - Insufficiency of Sureties; New Bond

Section 15 - Discharge of Sureties; New Bond

Section 16 - Failure to Give New Bond; Effect

Section 17 - Sureties on Prior Bond; Liability

Section 18 - Penal Sum of Bond; Reduction

Section 19 - Woman Fiduciary; Effect of Marriage

Section 19a - Joint Control of Trust Estates; Agreements Between Fiduciaries and Sureties; Authorization

Section 20 - Actions Upon Bonds by Creditors

Section 21 - Creditors; Amount Due Ascertained by Decree of Distribution

Section 22 - Actions Upon Bonds by Next of Kin

Section 23 - Actions Upon Bonds by Person Aggrieved by Maladministration of Fiduciary

Section 24 - Judge as Obligor

Section 25 - Wife of Probate Judge as Obligor

Section 26 - Endorsement of Writ

Section 27 - Obligor; Summoning

Section 28 - Obligor; Failure to Appear; Effect

Section 29 - Actions Upon Bonds Given by Guardians, Conservators, Trustees or Other Fiduciary

Section 30 - Venue for Actions Upon Bonds

Section 31 - Form of Execution

Section 32 - Execution for Use of Particular Person; Procedure

Section 33 - Execution for Undesignated Persons; Procedure

Section 34 - New Breach; Effect

Section 35 - Bond of Guardian or Conservator; Limitation of Action Against Sureties