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MA Gen L ch III § 3-614 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-614 - Special Representative; Appointment

Section 3–614. [Special Representative; Appointment.]  A special personal representative may be appointed in a proceeding by order of the court on the petition of any interested person and finding, after notice and hearing, that appointment is necessary to preserve the estate or to secure its proper administration including its administration in circumstances where a general personal representative cannot or should not act. If it appears to the court that an emergency exists, appointment may be ordered without notice. A special personal representative shall continue to act during appeal of his appointment unless the court orders otherwise.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-605 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-605 - Demand for Sureties by Interested Person

Section 3–605. [Demand For Sureties by Interested Person.]  Any person apparently having an interest in the estate worth in excess of $5000 or any creditor having a claim in excess of $5000, may make a written demand that a personal representative give sureties on the bond. The demand shall be filed with the court and a copy mailed to the personal representative if appointment and qualification have occurred. Thereupon, sureties shall be required but such requirement shall cease if the person demanding sureties ceases to be interested in the estate or if sureties are excused under section 3–604. After receiving notice and until the provision of sureties or cessation of the requirement of sureties, the personal representative shall refrain from exercising any powers of office except as necessary to preserve the estate. Failure of the personal representative to meet a requirement of sureties by providing suitable sureties within 30 days after receipt of notice shall be cause for removal and appointment of a successor personal representative.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-205 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-205 - Judge or Register as Personal Representative

Section 3–205. [Judge or Register as Personal Representative.]  If a judge or register desires to be appointed personal representative of the estate of his spouse, child or parent who at the time of their decease was domiciled in his county, such appointment may be made and all subsequent proceedings relative to the estate may be had in the court of any adjoining county, and the register thereof shall forthwith transmit to the register of the county where the decedent was domiciled, a true and attested copy of all papers relating thereto filed and entered on the docket, which shall be recorded by the register to whom they are transmitted.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-202 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-202 - Appointment or Testacy Proceedings; Conflicting Claim of Domicile in Another State

Section 3–202. [Appointment or Testacy Proceedings; Conflicting Claim of Domicile in Another State.]  If conflicting claims as to the domicile of a decedent are made in a formal testacy or appointment proceeding commenced in the commonwealth, and in a testacy or appointment proceeding after notice pending at the same time in another state, the court of the commonwealth shall stay, dismiss, or permit suitable amendment in, the proceeding here unless it is determined that the local proceeding was commenced before the proceeding elsewhere. The determination of domicile in the proceeding first commenced shall be accepted as determinative in the proceeding in the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-201 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-201 - Venue for First and Subsequent Estate Proceedings; Location of Property

Section 3–201. [Venue for First and Subsequent Estate Proceedings; Location of Property.]  (a) Venue for the first informal or formal testacy or appointment proceedings after a decedent's death is:  (1) in the county where the decedent was domiciled at the time of death; or  (2) if the decedent was not domiciled in the commonwealth, in any county where property of the decedent was located at the time of death.  (b) Venue for all subsequent proceedings within the exclusive jurisdiction of the court is in the place where the initial proceeding occurred, unless the initial proceeding has been transferred as provided in section 1–303 or (c) of this section.  (c) If the first proceeding was informal, on application of an interested person and after notice to the proponent in the first proceeding, the court, upon finding that venue is elsewhere, may transfer the proceeding and the file to the other court.  (d) For the purpose of aiding determinations concerning location of assets which may be relevant in cases involving non-domiciliaries, a debt, other than one evidenced by investment or commercial paper or other instrument in favor of a non-domiciliary is located where the debtor resides or, if the debtor is a person other than an individual, at the place where it has its principal office. Commercial paper, investment paper and other instruments are located where the instrument is. An interest in property held in trust is located where the trustee may be sued.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-1204 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-1204 - Small Estates; Closing by Sworn Statement of Personal Representative

Section 3–1204. [Small Estates; Closing by Sworn Statement of Personal Representative.]  (a) Unless prohibited by order of the court and except for estates being administered by supervised personal representatives, a personal representative may close an estate administered under the summary procedures of section 3–1203 by filing with the court, at any time after disbursement and distribution of the estate, a verified statement stating that:  (1) to the best knowledge of the personal representative, the value of the entire estate, less liens and encumbrances, did not exceed family allowances, exempt property, costs and expenses of administration, reasonable funeral expenses, and reasonable, necessary medical and hospital expenses of the last illness of the decedent;  (2) the personal representative has fully administered the estate by disbursing and distributing it to the persons entitled thereto; and  (3) the personal representative has sent a copy of the closing statement to all distributees of the estate and to all creditors or other claimants of whom he is aware whose claims are neither paid nor barred and has furnished a full account in writing of his administration to the distributees whose interests are affected.  (b) If no actions or proceedings involving the personal representative are pending in the court 1 year after the closing statement is filed, the appointment of the personal representative terminates.  (c) A closing statement filed under this section has the same effect as one filed under section 3–1003.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-1203 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-1203 - Small Estates; Summary Administration Procedure

Section 3–1203. [Small Estates; Summary Administration Procedure.]  If it appears that the value of the entire estate, less liens and encumbrances, does not exceed family allowances, exempt property, costs and expenses of administration, reasonable funeral expenses, and reasonable and necessary medical and hospital expenses of the last illness of the decedent, the personal representative, without giving notice to creditors, may immediately disburse and distribute the estate to the persons entitled thereto and file a closing statement as provided in section 3–1204.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-1202 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-1202 - Effect of Affidavit

Section 3–1202. [Effect of Affidavit.]  The person paying, delivering, transferring, or issuing personal property or the evidence thereof pursuant to section 3–1201 is discharged and released to the same extent as if he dealt with a personal representative of the decedent. He or she is not required to see to the application of the personal property or evidence thereof or to inquire into the truth of any statement in the affidavit. If any person to whom a statement is delivered refuses to pay, deliver, transfer, or issue any personal property or evidence thereof, it may be recovered or its payment, delivery, transfer, or issuance compelled upon proof of their right in a proceeding brought for the purpose by or on behalf of the persons entitled thereto. Any person to whom payment, delivery, transfer or issuance is made is answerable and accountable therefor to any personal representative of the estate or to any other person having a superior right.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-1103 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-1103 - Non-Resident Beneficiaries; Payment of Trust Fund to Foreign Trustee

Section 3–1103. [Non–Resident Beneficiaries; Payment of Trust Fund to Foreign Trustee.]  If all living parties interested as beneficiaries in a trust created by a will allowed in the commonwealth reside outside thereof, the court having jurisdiction of the trust may, on petition of parties in interest or of the personal representative or trustee, if it considers it just and expedient, authorize the personal representative or trustee to pay the fund to a trustee appointed by the proper court in any other state or country, if all living beneficiaries and the personal representative or trustee signify their consent, and the court is satisfied that the laws of such other state or country secure the due performance of said trust; and upon such payment, shown to the satisfaction of said court, the personal representative or trustee appointed here may be discharged from further responsibility by decree of said court.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-1102 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-1102 - Procedure for Securing Court Approval of Compromise

Section 3–1102. [Procedure for Securing Court Approval of Compromise.]  The procedure for securing court approval of a compromise is as follows:  (1) The terms of the compromise shall be set forth in an agreement in writing which shall be executed by all competent persons and parents or guardians acting for any minor child having beneficial interests or having claims which will or may be affected by the compromise. Execution is not required by any person whose identity cannot be ascertained or whose whereabouts is unknown and cannot reasonably be ascertained.  (2) Any interested person, including the personal representative or a trustee, then may submit the agreement to the court for its approval and for execution by the personal representative, the trustee of every affected trust, and other fiduciaries and representatives.  (3) After notice as prescribed by section 1–401 to all interested persons or their representatives, including the personal representative of the estate and all affected trustees of trusts, the court, if it finds that the contest or controversy is in good faith and that the effect of the agreement upon the interests of persons represented by fiduciaries or other representatives is just and reasonable, shall make an order approving the agreement and directing all fiduciaries subject to its jurisdiction to execute the agreement. Minor children represented only by their parents or guardians may be bound only if their parents or guardians join with other competent persons in execution of the compromise. Upon the making of the order and the execution of the agreement, all further disposition of the estate is in accordance with the terms of the agreement.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-1101 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-1101 - Effect of Approval of Agreements Involving Trusts, Inalienable Interests, or Interests of Third Persons

Section 3–1101. [Effect of Approval of Agreements Involving Trusts, Inalienable Interests, or Interests of Third Persons.]  A compromise of any controversy as to admission to probate of any instrument offered for formal probate as the will of a decedent, as to the administration or distribution of an estate, or as to an accounting therefore, or as to any matter relating to said estate, or as to the construction of a will or trust created by a written instrument, or as to the fiduciary's power and authority thereunder, or as to any controversy growing out of said will or instrument that may arise between the fiduciary and any other person or the guardian or conservator of any person interested under said will or instrument or in said estate, or between claimants or the guardians or conservators of claimants to said estate, to which arbitration or compromise, in the form of an agreement in writing, such personal representative, guardian, conservator, receiver, commissioner or other fiduciary officer or trustee, and all other persons in being and of full age and not under guardianship, and the guardian or conservator, if any, of all other persons who claim a vested interest in said estate, whose interests will, in the opinion of the court, be affected by the proposed arbitration or compromise, shall be parties, if approved in a formal proceeding in the court for that purpose, is binding on all the parties thereto including those unborn, unascertained or who could not be located. An approved compromise is binding even though it may affect a trust or an inalienable interest. A compromise shall not impair the rights of creditors or of taxing authorities who are not parties to it.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-109 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-109 - Statutes of Limitation on Decedent's Cause of Action

Section 3–109. [Statutes of Limitation on Decedent's Cause of Action.]  No statute of limitation running on a cause of action belonging to a decedent which had not been barred as of the date of death, shall apply to bar a cause of action surviving the decedent's death sooner than 4 months after death. A cause of action which, but for this section, would have been barred less than 4 months after death, is barred after 4 months unless tolled.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-108 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-108 - Probate, Testacy and Appointment Proceedings; Ultimate Time Limit

Section 3–108. [Probate, testacy and appointment proceedings; ultimate time limit.]  No informal probate or appointment proceeding or formal testacy or appointment proceeding, other than a proceeding to probate a will previously probated at the testator's domicile and appointment proceedings relating to an estate in which there has been a prior appointment, may be commenced more than 3 years after the decedent's death, except that: (1) if a previous proceeding was dismissed because of doubt relative to the fact of the decedent's death, then appropriate probate, appointment or testacy proceedings may be maintained at any time thereafter upon a finding that the decedent's death occurred prior to the initiation of the previous proceeding and the applicant or petitioner has not unduly delayed initiating the subsequent proceeding; (2) appropriate probate, appointment or testacy proceedings may be maintained relative to the estate of an absent, disappeared or missing person at any time within 3 years after the death of the person may be established; (3) a proceeding to contest an informally probated will and to secure appointment of the person with legal priority for appointment in the event the contest is successful, may be commenced within the later of 12 months from the informal probate or 3 years from the decedent's death; (4) an informal appointment or a formal testacy or appointment proceeding may be commenced thereafter if no proceedings relative to the succession or estate administration has occurred within the 3 year period after the decedent's death, but the personal representative shall have no right to possess estate assets as provided in section 3–709 beyond that necessary to confirm title thereto in the successors to the estate and claims other than expenses of administration shall not be presented against the estate; and (5) a formal testacy proceeding may be commenced at any time after 3 years from the decedent's death for the purpose of establishing an instrument to direct or control the ownership of property passing or distributable after the decedent's death from one other than the decedent when the property is to be appointed by the terms of the decedent's will or is to pass or be distributed as a part of the decedent's estate or its transfer is otherwise to be controlled by the terms of the decedent's will. These limitations shall not apply to proceedings to construe probated wills or to determine heirs of an intestate. In cases under clause (1) or (2), the date on which a testacy or appointment proceeding is properly commenced shall be deemed to be the date of the decedent's death for purposes of other limitations provisions of this chapter which relate to the date of death.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-107 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-107 - Scope of Proceedings; Proceedings Independent; Exception

Section 3–107. [Scope of Proceedings; Proceedings Independent; Exception.]  Unless supervised administration as described in part 5 is involved, (1) each proceeding before the court or a magistrate is independent of any other proceeding involving the same estate; (2) petitions for formal orders of the court may combine various requests for relief in a single proceeding if the orders sought may be finally granted without delay. Except as required for proceedings which are particularly described by other sections of this article, no petition is defective because it fails to embrace all matters which might then be the subject of a final order; (3) proceedings for probate of wills or adjudications of no will may be combined with proceedings for appointment of personal representatives; and (4) a proceeding for appointment of a personal representative is concluded by an order making or declining the appointment.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-106 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-106 - Proceedings Within the Exclusive Jurisdiction of Court; Service; Jurisdiction Over Persons

Section 3–106. [Proceedings Within the Exclusive Jurisdiction of Court; Service; Jurisdiction Over Persons.]  In proceedings within the exclusive jurisdiction of the court where notice is required by this chapter or by rule, and in proceedings to construe probated wills or determine heirs which concern estates that have not been and cannot now be open for administration, interested persons may be bound by the orders of the court in respect to property in or subject to the laws of the commonwealth by notice in conformity with section 1–401. An order is binding as to all who are given notice of the proceeding though less than all interested persons are notified.
MA Gen L ch III § 3-105 (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 190b - Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code|Article III - Probate of Wills and Administration|Section 3-105 - Proceedings Affecting Devolution and Administration

Section 3–105. [Proceedings Affecting Devolution and Administration.]  Persons interested in decedents' estates may petition the magistrate for determination in the informal proceedings provided in this article, and may petition the court for orders in formal proceedings within the court's jurisdiction including but not limited to those described in this article.