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MA Gen L ch 204 § 36 (2021)
2021 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 204 - General Provisions Relative to Sales, Mortgages, Releases, Compromises, etc., by Executors, Etc.|Section 36 - Severability

Section 36. If any of the provisions in sections twenty-seven to thirty-five, inclusive, shall be held invalid or unconstitutional in relation to any of the applications thereof, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect other applications thereof, or other provisions in said sections; and to these ends the provisions in said sections are declared to be severable.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 1 (2021)
2021 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 1. A receiver of an absentee, and, unless otherwise expressly provided, a guardian before entering upon the duties of his trust, shall give bond with sufficient sureties, in such sum as the probate court may order payable to the judge of said court and his successors, and with condition substantially as follows:  1. In the case of a receiver of an absentee under chapter 200:  With condition substantially as provided for the bond of an executor or administrator, and with the further condition to obey all orders and decrees made by the probate court.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 6a (2021)
2021 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 6a - Surety Not Required on Bonds Filed by National Banks

Section 6A. No surety shall be required upon bonds filed by national banks, located in the commonwealth and duly permitted to act in a fiduciary capacity, as receiver, assignee, guardian, conservator except that the court appointing such a bank as such a fiduciary, other than as trustee, may upon application of an interested person require the bank so appointed to give such security, in addition to the lien or security provided by the laws of the United States, as the court may consider proper, and upon failure of such bank to give the security required may revoke such appointment and remove such bank.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 9 (2021)
2021 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 9 - Sureties on Bonds; Requirements

Section 9. Sureties on probate bonds shall be inhabitants of the commonwealth, and satisfactory to the judge or register; except that companies permitted by section one hundred and five of chapter one hundred and seventy-five to act as sureties may be accepted in accordance with the provisions thereof and that, if the property of a person under guardianship or conservatorship is composed in whole or in part of any benefit, estate or income paid or payable by or through the United States veterans' bureau or its successor and exceeds five hundred dollars, the surety on the bond of the guardian or conservator shall be such a company.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 10 (2021)
2021 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 10 - Approval by Judge or Register

Section 10. No bond required to be given to a judge of probate or to be filed in a registry of probate shall be sufficient, unless it has been examined and approved by the judge or register, and his approval over his official signature written thereon.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 11 (2021)
2021 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 11 - Joint Fiduciaries; Joint or Separate Bonds

Section 11. Two or more persons acting jointly as executors, administrators, trustees or otherwise, who are required to give bonds, may give either separate or joint bonds.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 12 (2021)
2021 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 12 - Joint Executors; Failure to Give Bond; Effect

Section 12. If two or more persons are appointed executors, none shall intermeddle or act as such but those who give bond as before provided.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 13 (2021)
2021 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 13 - Fiduciary; License to Sell or Mortgage Realty; Additional Bond

Section 13. If a license or authority to sell or mortgage real estate is granted to an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee, no special bond shall be required; but if the court finds the bond already given by him insufficient, it shall, before granting such license or authority, require an additional bond containing the same conditions as are required in the original bond.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 14 (2021)
2021 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 14 - Insufficiency of Sureties; New Bond

Section 14. If the sureties or the penal sum in a probate bond are insufficient, the supreme judicial court or the probate court may, after notice to the principal in such bond, require a new bond with such surety or sureties and in such penal sum as the court orders.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 15 (2021)
2021 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 15 - Discharge of Sureties; New Bond

Section 15. A surety on a probate bond may, upon the petition of the surety or of the principal to the supreme judicial court or the probate court, be discharged from all further responsibility, if the court, after notice to all persons interested, finds such discharge reasonable and proper; and the principal shall thereupon give a new bond with such surety or sureties as the court orders.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 16 (2021)
2021 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 16 - Failure to Give New Bond; Effect

Section 16. If, in the cases specified in the two preceding sections, the principal does not give such new bond within such time as the court orders, he shall be removed from his trust, and another person appointed in his stead.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 17 (2021)
2021 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 17 - Sureties on Prior Bond; Liability

Section 17. If a new bond is required as above provided, the sureties on the prior bond shall be liable for all breaches of the condition thereof committed before the new bond is approved by the judge.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 18 (2021)
2021 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 18 - Penal Sum of Bond; Reduction

Section 18. If a surety company becomes surety on a probate bond, the court may, upon the petition of any party in interest and after notice, reduce the penal sum in which the principal and surety shall be liable for subsequent violations of the conditions thereof.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 19 (2021)
2021 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 19 - Woman Fiduciary; Effect of Marriage

Section 19. In case of the marriage of a woman who is an executrix, administratrix, guardian, conservator or trustee, her sureties shall, upon petition to the probate court in which her bond is filed, be released from further liability thereon, beyond accounting for and paying over the money and property already in her hands by virtue of such trust; and if her sureties are so released, she shall be required to furnish a new bond to the satisfaction of said court, or shall be removed from said trust.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 19a (2021)
2021 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 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.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 20 (2021)
2021 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 20 - Actions Upon Bonds by Creditors

Section 20. A bond given by an executor or administrator for the performance of his trust may be put in suit by a creditor of the deceased for his own benefit, when such creditor has recovered judgment for his debt against the executor or administrator and he has neglected upon demand to pay the same or show sufficient goods or estate of the deceased to be taken on execution for that purpose.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 21 (2021)
2021 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 21 - Creditors; Amount Due Ascertained by Decree of Distribution

Section 21. A creditor of an estate which has been represented insolvent may bring such action if the amount due him has been ascertained by the decree of distribution, and the executor or administrator neglects upon demand to pay it.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 22 (2021)
2021 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 22 - Actions Upon Bonds by Next of Kin

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.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 23 (2021)
2021 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 23 - Actions Upon Bonds by Person Aggrieved by Maladministration of Fiduciary

Section 23. If the probate court, upon the representation of a person interested in an estate, finds that the executor or administrator has failed in any manner not specified in the three preceding sections to perform the conditions of his bond, it may authorize any creditor, next of kin, legatee or other person aggrieved by such maladministration to bring an action on the bond.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 24 (2021)
2021 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 24 - Judge as Obligor

Section 24. If a judge of probate is obligor, either as principal or as surety, in a bond given to a former judge of the court, any action authorized by this chapter may be brought upon such bond in the name of the judge mentioned therein or in the name of his executor or administrator, and the register of probate for the county in which such bond was given may authorize an action thereon in like manner and upon the same conditions as may be done in other cases by the court.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 25 (2021)
2021 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 25 - Wife of Probate Judge as Obligor

Section 25. The wife of a judge of probate may be a defendant in an action upon a bond given to him or to his predecessor in such office.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 26 (2021)
2021 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 26 - Endorsement of Writ

Section 26. In every action on a bond under sections twenty, twenty-one and twenty-two, the writ shall be endorsed by the persons for whose benefit or at whose request the action is brought or by their attorney, and the endorsers shall be liable for the costs of suit, and execution therefor shall be issued against them and not against the judge. If the action is brought for the benefit of creditors or next of kin, there shall be a further endorsement on the writ specifying that it is brought for the benefit of such creditors or next of kin.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 27 (2021)
2021 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 27 - Obligor; Summoning

Section 27. If the principal in the bond is a resident of the commonwealth at the commencement of the action, and is not made a defendant therein or is not served with process, the court may, at the request of any of the sureties, continue or postpone the action so long as may be necessary to summon or bring in the principal as provided in the following section.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 28 (2021)
2021 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 28 - Obligor; Failure to Appear; Effect

Section 28. The sureties may take out a writ, in such form as the court may prescribe, to arrest the principal or to attach his goods or estate, and to summon him to appear and answer as defendant in the original action. If, after being served with such process fourteen days at least before the time appointed for him to appear and answer to the action, he neglects so to do, and if judgment is for the plaintiff, such judgment shall be rendered against the principal obligor with the other defendants in the same manner as if he had been originally a party to the action. An attachment or bail on such process shall be liable to respond to the judgment in like manner as if made or taken in the original action.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 29 (2021)
2021 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 29 - Actions Upon Bonds Given by Guardians, Conservators, Trustees or Other Fiduciary

Section 29. Except as otherwise provided, a bond given by a guardian, conservator, trustee, receiver, commissioner or other fiduciary officer may be put in suit by order of the probate court for the benefit of any person interested, and the proceedings in such action shall be conducted in like manner as is provided relative to actions on bonds given by executors or administrators.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 30 (2021)
2021 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 30 - Venue for Actions Upon Bonds

Section 30. An action on a bond payable to a judge of probate shall be brought in the superior court held for the county where the bond was taken.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 31 (2021)
2021 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 31 - Form of Execution

Section 31. If the court finds that there has been a breach of the condition of the bond of an executor or administrator, it shall, upon a hearing in equity, award execution in the name of the plaintiff as follows:  First, If the action is brought for the benefit of a creditor, execution shall be awarded for the use of the creditor for the amount due him upon the judgment which he has recovered, or upon the decree of distribution in his favor.  Second, If the action is brought for the benefit of a person who is next of kin, execution shall be awarded for the use of such person for the amount due him according to the decree of the probate court.  Third, If the action is brought for a breach of the condition in not accounting for the estate as required by law, execution shall be awarded, without expressing that it is for the use of any person, for the full value of all the estate of the deceased which has come to the hands of the executor or administrator and for which he does not satisfactorily account, and for all damages caused by his neglect or maladministration.  Fourth, If the action is brought for any other breach of the condition of the bond, execution shall be awarded for such amount and for the use of such person or persons, or without expressing it to be for the use of any particular person, as the court determines.  Fifth, If there are two or more persons for whose use execution is to be awarded as provided in this section, a separate execution shall be issued for the amount due each.  Sixth, The execution shall include costs of suit, as well as the debt or damages; and if there is more than one execution, costs shall be divided between them as the court orders.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 32 (2021)
2021 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 32 - Execution for Use of Particular Person; Procedure

Section 32. If an execution awarded under the preceding section is expressed to be for the use of a particular person, such person shall be considered as the judgment creditor, and may cause it to be levied in his name and for his benefit, as if the action had been brought and the judgment recovered in his name.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 33 (2021)
2021 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 33 - Execution for Undesignated Persons; Procedure

Section 33. If such execution is awarded without expressing it to be for the use of any particular person, all money received thereon shall be paid to the co-executor or co-administrator, if any, or to the person who is then the rightful executor or administrator, and shall be assets in his hands to be administered according to law.