Section 22. Such action may be brought by a person who is next of kin to recover his share of the personal property after a decree of the probate court ascertaining the amount due him, if the executor or administrator neglects upon demand to pay it.
Structure Massachusetts General Laws
Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations
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 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 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