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MA Gen L ch 9 § 9-613 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 106 - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 9 - Secured Transactions|Section 9-613 - Contents and Form of Notification Before Disposition of Collateral: General

Section 9–613. Except in a consumer-goods transaction, the following rules apply:  (1) The contents of a notification of disposition are sufficient if the notification:  (A) describes the debtor and the secured party;  (B) describes the collateral that is the subject of the intended disposition;  (C) states the method of intended disposition;  (D) states that the debtor is entitled to an accounting of the unpaid indebtedness and states the charge, if any, for an accounting; and  (E) states the time and place of a public disposition or the time after which any other disposition is to be made.  (2) Whether the contents of a notification that lacks any of the information specified in paragraph (1) are nevertheless sufficient is a question of fact.  (3) The contents of a notification providing substantially the information specified in paragraph (1) are sufficient, even if the notification includes:  (A) information not specified by that paragraph; or  (B) minor errors that are not seriously misleading.  (4) A particular phrasing of the notification is not required.  (5) The following form of notification and the form appearing in Section 9–614(3), when completed, each provides sufficient information:  NOTIFICATION OF DISPOSITION OF COLLATERAL  To:(Name of debtor, obligor, or other person to whom the notificationis sent)   From: (Name, address and telephone number of secured party)  Name of Debtor(s): (Include only if debtor(s) is not an addressee)  (For a public disposition:)  We will sell (or lease or license, as applicable) the  (describe collateral)  (to the highest qualified bidder) in public as follows:  Day and Date:  Time:  Place:  (For a private disposition:)  We will sell (or lease or license, as applicable) the  (describe collateral)  privately sometime after  (day and date) .  You are entitled to an accounting of the unpaid indebtedness secured by the property that we intend to sell (or lease or license, as applicable) (for a charge of $ ___). You may request an accounting by calling us at  (telephone number) .  (End of Form)
MA Gen L ch 9 § 9-612 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 106 - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 9 - Secured Transactions|Section 9-612 - Timeliness of Notification Before Disposition of Collateral

Section 9–612. (a) Reasonable time is question of fact. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), whether a notification is sent within a reasonable time is a question of fact.  (b) Ten-day period sufficient in non-consumer transaction. In a transaction other than a consumer transaction, a notification of disposition sent after default and 10 days or more before the earliest time of disposition set forth in the notification is sent within a reasonable time before the disposition.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 9-611 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 106 - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 9 - Secured Transactions|Section 9-611 - Notification Before Disposition of Collateral

Section 9–611. (a) ''Notification date.'' In this section, ''notification date'' means the earlier of the date on which:  (1) a secured party sends to the debtor and any secondary obligor an authenticated notification of disposition; or  (2) the debtor and any secondary obligor waive the right to notification.  (b) Notification of disposition required. Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), a secured party that disposes of collateral under Section 9–610 shall send to the persons specified in subsection (c) a reasonable authenticated notification of disposition.  (c) Persons to be notified. To comply with subsection (b), the secured party shall send an authenticated notification of disposition to:  (1) the debtor;  (2) any secondary obligor; and  (3) if the collateral is other than consumer goods:  (A) any other person from which the secured party has received, before the notification date, an authenticated notification of a claim of an interest in the collateral;  (B) any other secured party or lienholder that, 10 days before the notification date, held a security interest in or other lien on the collateral perfected by the filing of a financing statement that:  (i) identified the collateral;  (ii) was indexed under the debtor's name as of that date; and  (iii) was filed in the office in which to file a financing statement against the debtor covering the collateral as of that date; and  (C) any other secured party that, 10 days before the notification date, held a security interest in the collateral perfected by compliance with a statute, regulation, or treaty described in Section 9–311(a).  (d) Subsection (b) inapplicable: perishable collateral; recognized market. Subsection (b) does not apply if the collateral is perishable or threatens to decline speedily in value or is of a type customarily sold on a recognized market.  (e) Compliance with subsection (c)(3)(B). A secured party complies with the requirement for notification prescribed by subsection (c)(3)(B) if:  (1) not later than 20 days or earlier than 30 days before the notification date, the secured party requests, in a commercially reasonable manner, information concerning financing statements indexed under the debtor's name in the office indicated in subsection (c)(3)(B); and  (2) before the notification date, the secured party:  (A) did not receive a response to the request for information; or  (B) received a response to the request for information and sent an authenticated notification of disposition to each secured party or other lienholder named in that response whose financing statement covered the collateral.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 9-610 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 106 - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 9 - Secured Transactions|Section 9-610 - Disposition of Collateral After Default

Section 9–610. (a) Disposition after default. After default, a secured party may sell, lease, license, or otherwise dispose of any or all of the collateral in its present condition or following any commercially reasonable preparation or processing.  (b) Commercially reasonable disposition. Every aspect of a disposition of collateral, including the method, manner, time, place, and other terms, must be commercially reasonable. If commercially reasonable, a secured party may dispose of collateral by public or private proceedings, by 1 or more contracts, as a unit or in parcels, and at any time and place and on any terms.  (c) Purchase by secured party. A secured party may purchase collateral:  (1) at a public disposition; or  (2) at a private disposition only if the collateral is of a kind that is customarily sold on a recognized market or the subject of widely distributed standard price quotations.  (d) Warranties on disposition. A contract for sale, lease, license, or other disposition includes the warranties relating to title, possession, quiet enjoyment, and the like which by operation of law accompany a voluntary disposition of property of the kind subject to the contract.  (e) Disclaimer of warranties. A secured party may disclaim or modify warranties under subsection (d):  (1) in a manner that would be effective to disclaim or modify the warranties in a voluntary disposition of property of the kind subject to the contract of disposition; or  (2) by communicating to the purchaser a record evidencing the contract for disposition and including an express disclaimer or modification of the warranties.  (f) Record sufficient to disclaim warranties. A record is sufficient to disclaim warranties under subsection (e) if it indicates ''There is no warranty relating to title, possession, quiet enjoyment, or the like in this disposition'' or uses words of similar import.
MA Gen L ch 9 § 9-609 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part I - Administration of the Government|Title XV - Regulation of Trade|Chapter 106 - Uniform Commercial Code|Article 9 - Secured Transactions|Section 9-609 - Secured Party's Right to Take Possession After Default

Section 9–609. (a) Possession; rendering equipment unusable; disposition on debtor's premises. After default, a secured party:  (1) may take possession of the collateral; and  (2) without removal, may render equipment unusable and dispose of collateral on a debtor's premises under Section 9–610.  (b) Judicial and nonjudicial process. A secured party may proceed under subsection (a):  (1) pursuant to judicial process; or  (2) without judicial process, if it proceeds without breach of the peace.  (c) Assembly of collateral. If so agreed, and in any event after default, a secured party may require the debtor to assemble the collateral and make it available to the secured party at a place to be designated by the secured party which is reasonably convenient to both parties.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-404 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-404 - Guardian Ad Litem and Next Friend

Section 1–404. [Guardian Ad Litem and Next Friend.]  (a) If, in a formal proceeding involving trusts or estates of decedents, minors, protected persons or incapacitated persons and in judicially supervised settlements, or otherwise, a minor, a protected person, an incapacitated person or a person not ascertained or not in being may be or may become interested in any property, real or personal or, in the enforcement or defense of any legal rights, the court in which any action, petition or proceeding of any kind relative to or affecting any such estate or legal rights is pending may, upon the representation of any party thereto or of any person interested, appoint a suitable person to appear and act therein as guardian ad litem or next friend of such minor, protected person, incapacitated person or person not ascertained or not in being. A judgment, order or decree issued as a result of such proceedings, following an appointment made under this subsection, shall be conclusive upon all persons for whom a guardian ad litem or next friend was appointed.  (b) The reasonable expenses of such guardian ad litem or next friend, including compensation and counsel fees, shall be determined by the court and paid as it may order, either out of the estate or by the plaintiff, petitioner or the commonwealth. If such expenses are to be paid by the plaintiff or petitioner execution therefor may issue in the name of the guardian ad litem or next friend.  (c) Nothing in this code shall affect the power of a court to appoint a guardian or conservator to defend the interests of a minor impleaded in such court, or interested in a suit or matter there pending, nor the power of such court to appoint or allow a person, as next friend for a minor, to commence, prosecute or defend a suit in his behalf.  (d) If it appears in a probate or appointment proceeding that a spouse, heir at law or devisee is an incapacitated or protected person or a minor, notice of all proceedings shall be given to the incapacitated or protected person or minor and to his guardian or conservator. Unless the spouse, heir or devisee is under conservatorship or, if not under conservatorship, is under guardianship by someone other than the petitioner or is represented by someone other than the petitioner, the court shall appoint a guardian ad litem who shall be provided notice of all proceedings.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-403 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-403 - Pleadings; When Parties Bound by Others; Notice

Section 1–403. [Pleadings; When Parties Bound by Others; Notice.]  In formal proceedings involving trusts or estates of decedents, minors, protected persons, or incapacitated persons, and in judicially supervised settlements, the following apply:  (1) Interests to be affected shall be described in pleadings which give reasonable information to owners by name or class, by reference to the instrument creating the interests, or in other appropriate manner.  (2) Persons are bound by orders binding others in the following cases:  (i) Orders binding the sole holder or all co-holders of a power of revocation or a presently exercisable general power of appointment, including one in the form of a power of amendment, or a presently exercisable power to appoint among a class of appointees which is broader than the class of those persons who would take in default of the exercise of such power, bind other persons to the extent their interests as objects, takers in default, or otherwise are subject to the power.  (ii) To the extent there is no conflict of interest between them or among persons represented, orders binding a conservator bind the person whose estate the conservator controls; orders binding a guardian bind the protected person or ward if no conservator has been appointed; orders binding a trustee bind beneficiaries of the trust in proceedings to probate a will establishing or adding to a trust, to review the acts or accounts of a prior fiduciary and in proceedings involving creditors or other third parties; and orders binding a personal representative bind persons interested in the undistributed assets of a decedent's estate in actions or proceedings by or against the estate. If there is no conflict of interest and no conservator or guardian has been appointed, a parent may represent a minor child.  (iii) An unborn or unascertained person who is not otherwise represented is bound by an order to the extent the person's interest is adequately represented by another party having a substantially identical interest in the proceeding.  (3) Notice is required as follows:  (i) Notice as prescribed by section 1–401 shall be given to every interested person or to one who can bind an interested person as described in (2)(i) or (2)(ii) above. Notice may be given both to a person and to another who may bind such person.  (ii) Notice is given to unborn or unascertained persons, who are not represented under (2)(i) or (2)(ii), by giving notice to all known persons whose interest in the proceedings are substantially identical to those of the unborn or unascertained persons.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-402 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-402 - Notice; Waiver

Section 1–402. [Notice; Waiver.]  A person, including a guardian ad litem, conservator, or other fiduciary, may waive notice by a writing signed by the person or the person's attorney and filed in the proceeding. A person for whom a guardianship or other protective order is sought, a ward, incapacitated person or a protected person may not waive notice.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-310 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-310 - Oath of Affirmation on Filed Documents

Section 1–310. [Oath or Affirmation on Filed Documents.]  Except as otherwise specifically provided in this chapter or by rule, every document filed with the court under this chapter including petitions, and demands for notice, shall be deemed to include an oath, affirmation, or statement to the effect that its representations are true as far as the person executing or filing it knows or is informed, and penalties for perjury may follow deliberate falsification therein.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-307 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-307 - Magistrate; Powers

Section 1–307. [Magistrate; Powers.]  The acts and orders which this chapter specifies as performable by the magistrate may be performed either by the magistrate or such other official of the court, including a judge or other official of the court, all as designated by the court by a written order filed and recorded in the office of the court.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-303 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-303 - Venue; Multiple Proceedings; Transfer

Section 1–303. [Venue; Multiple Proceedings; Transfer.]  (a) Where a proceeding under this chapter could be maintained in more than one place in the commonwealth, the division in which the proceeding is first commenced has the exclusive right to proceed.  (b) If proceedings concerning the same estate, protected person, ward, or trust are commenced in more than one court of the commonwealth, the court in which the proceeding was first commenced shall continue to hear the matter, and the other courts shall hold the matter in abeyance until the question of venue is decided, and if the ruling court determines that venue is properly in another court, it shall transfer the proceeding to the other court.  (c) If a court finds that in the interest of justice a proceeding or a file should be located in another court of the commonwealth, the court making the finding may transfer the proceeding or file to the other court.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-302 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-302 - Subject Matter Jurisdiction

Section 1–302. [Subject Matter Jurisdiction.]  (a) To the full extent permitted by the constitution, the court has jurisdiction over all subject matter relating to: (1) estates of decedents, including construction of wills and determination of heirs and successors of decedents, and estates of protected persons, (2) protection of minors and incapacitated persons, (3) trusts, and (4) any other matters authorized by section 6 of chapter 215. The district court and the juvenile court shall have concurrent jurisdiction with the probate and family court to appoint guardians of minors when the subject of the petition is a minor and there is a proceeding before such district or juvenile court. The district and juvenile court shall have continuing jurisdiction over resignation, removal, reporting, and other proceedings related to the guardianship.  (b) The court has full power to make orders, judgments and decrees and take all other action necessary and proper to administer justice in the matters which come before it.  (c) The court has jurisdiction over protective proceedings and guardianship proceedings. Part 2 of Article 5A provides the exclusive jurisdictional basis for a court of the commonwealth to appoint a guardian or issue a protective order for an adult.  (d) If both guardianship and protective proceedings as to the same person are commenced or pending in the same court, the proceedings may be consolidated.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-301 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-301 - Territorial Application

Section 1–301. [Territorial Application.]  Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, this chapter applies to: (1) the affairs and estates of decedents and missing persons domiciled in the commonwealth, (2) the property of nonresidents located in the commonwealth or property coming into the control of a fiduciary who is subject to the laws of the commonwealth, (3) incapacitated persons, protected persons and minors in the commonwealth, (4) survivorship and related accounts in the commonwealth, and (5) trusts subject to administration in the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-109 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-109 - Standard of Proof

Section 1–109. [Standard of Proof.]  In contested cases, the standard of proof is a preponderance of the evidence.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-101 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-101 - Short Title

Section 1–101. [Short Title.]  This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-103 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-103 - Supplementary General Principles of Law Applicable

Section 1–103. [Supplementary General Principles of Law Applicable.]  Unless displaced by the particular provisions of this chapter, the principles of law and equity supplement its provisions.
MA Gen L ch I § 1-104 (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 I - General Provisions, Definitions and Probate Jurisdiction of Court|Section 1-104 - Severability

Section 1–104. [Severability.]  If any provision of this chapter or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are declared to be severable.