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MA Gen L ch 205 § 34 (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 34 - New Breach; Effect

Section 34. If, after execution has once been awarded in an action upon a bond, the executor or administrator commits a new breach of the condition of the bond, or if a creditor, next of kin, legatee or other person interested in the estate has a claim for further damages on account of any neglect or maladministration of the executor or administrator, a writ of scire facias on the original judgment may be sued out in like manner as is provided for the commencement of the original action; and the court shall thereupon award a new execution in like manner as might have been done in the original action.
MA Gen L ch 205 § 35 (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 35 - Bond of Guardian or Conservator; Limitation of Action Against Sureties

Section 35. No action shall be maintained against the sureties on a bond given by a guardian or conservator unless commenced within four years from the time of the discharge of the guardian or conservator; but if at the time of such discharge the person entitled to bring such action is out of the commonwealth, it may be commenced within four years after his return.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 2 (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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 2 - Forms of Accounts

Section 2. Accounts rendered to the probate court by an executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or conservator shall be for a period distinctly stated therein, and consist of three schedules, of which the first shall show the amount of personal property, and with respect to a trustee, guardian or conservator also the amount of the real property, according to the inventory, or, instead thereof, the amount of the balance of the next prior account, as the case may be, and all income and other property received and gains from the sale of any property or otherwise; the second shall show payments, charges, losses and distributions; the third shall show the investment of the balance of such account, if any, and changes of investment. A trustee shall state in his accounts the receipts of principal and income separately and also the payments and charges on account of such principal and income separately.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 3 (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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 3 - Examination on Oath

Section 3. An executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee or receiver may be examined on oath before the court upon any matters relative to his accounts.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 4 (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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 4 - Securities and Moneys; Requirement of Production

Section 4. In settling an account of any executor, administrator, trustee, guardian or other fiduciary, the probate court may require him, or any of them if there are more than one, to produce during the proceedings or afterward, as the court may direct, any securities or moneys comprised in the account or any documents relating to the investments of the estate, and to replace any moneys or property that have been improperly applied or disposed of, or the value thereof, and to pay or transfer the same or any moneys or property with which he or they may be charged into a proper account or otherwise, as the court may order, in such manner that the same shall be in the control of the persons entitled thereto; and the proceedings upon every such account shall be considered for all purposes to be proceedings in equity, and orders and decrees of the court therein shall be enforceable accordingly, and execution may issue for any such moneys against the fiduciary personally as upon a judgment at law in favor of the persons entitled to the control thereof, or any of them, for the benefit of all.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 5 (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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 5 - Property; Accounting; Profits or Losses

Section 5. An executor or administrator with respect to personal property or a guardian, conservator or trustee with respect to real and personal property shall account for such property at its appraised value, but he shall make no profit by the increase nor sustain any loss by the decrease or destruction of any part thereof without his fault. If he sells any of such property for more than its appraised value, he shall account for the excess; if he sells for less than its appraised value, he shall be allowed for the loss if the court finds that the sale was expedient, and for the interest of all concerned; and he shall not be accountable for a debt inventoried as due to the estate if the court finds that it remains uncollected without his fault.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 6 (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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 6 - Property Subject to Accountings

Section 6. An executor or administrator with respect to personal property including the proceeds from any sale or mortgage of real estate, or a guardian, conservator or trustee with respect to real and personal property, shall be chargeable in his account with all such property of the estate coming to him and which is by law to be administered, although not included in the inventory; and with all interest, profit and income coming to him from the property.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 7 (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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 7 - Account of Guardian or Conservator of Mentally Ill Person or a Person With an Intellectual Disability; Allowance; Condition Precedent

Section 7. No final account or discharge of a guardian of a person with an intellectual disability shall be allowed unless at least seven days' notice has been given to the department of developmental services in the case of a person with an intellectual disability. No account of a guardian of a mentally ill person or a person with an intellectual disability or of a conservator shall be allowed without such notice as the court may order to the United States veterans' bureau or its successor if the ward is entitled to any benefit, estate or income paid or payable by or through said bureau or its successor.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 8 (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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 8 - Income From Realty; Accounting; Manner

Section 8. If real estate of a deceased person is used, occupied or taken charge of by an executor or administrator, he shall account for the income and management thereof in the same manner as in the case of personal property.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 9 - Mortgaged Realty; Manner of Accounting; Right of Entry

Section 9. If a mortgagee of real estate or an assignee of such mortgagee dies without having foreclosed the mortgage, the mortgaged property and the debt secured thereby shall be personal assets in the hands of his executor or administrator, and shall be administered and accounted for as such; and the executor or administrator shall have the same rights of entry and of action under said mortgage as the mortgagee or his assignee.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 10 - Mortgaged Realty; Redemption; Release

Section 10. Upon the redemption of such mortgage the money paid thereon shall be received by the executor or administrator, and he shall thereupon release and discharge the mortgage; and until such redemption the executor or administrator, if possession has been taken either by himself or by the deceased, shall be seized of the mortgaged property in trust for the persons who would be entitled to the money if the property had been redeemed.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 11 - Realty Taken by Executor or Administrator on Execution; Personal Assets

Section 11. If an executor or administrator recovers judgment for a debt due the deceased, and levies on real estate, he shall be seized of such real estate in trust for the persons who would have been entitled if the judgment had been satisfied in money; and the real estate so taken shall be considered as personal assets in his hands; and if redeemed, the money shall be received by the executor or administrator, who shall thereupon release the real estate.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 12 - Realty Held in Mortgage or on Execution; Manner of Sale

Section 12. Real estate held by an executor or administrator in mortgage, or taken on execution by him, may, at any time before the right of redemption is foreclosed, be sold subject to such right, in the same manner as personal property of a person deceased; and after such right has been foreclosed, it may be sold in the same manner as real estate of which the deceased died seized.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 13 - Realty Held in Mortgage or on Execution; Disposition

Section 13. If real estate so held by an executor or administrator in mortgage or on execution is not redeemed or sold as before provided, it shall be assigned and distributed to the same persons and in the same proportions as if it had been part of the personal property of the deceased; and if upon such distribution the property comes to two or more persons, the probate court may cause partition thereof to be made.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 14 - Burial Lot and Monument; Allowance

Section 14. A reasonable amount expended for a burial lot and a monument, or for the repair, improvement or embellishment of a burial lot or monument, may be allowed by the court as part of the funeral expenses of a deceased person; and the court may at any time, upon petition of an executor or administrator, after notice, determine the amount which may be expended.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 15 - Perpetual Care; Costs

Section 15. An executor or administrator may pay to a cemetery corporation or to a town having a burial place therein a reasonable amount for the perpetual care of the lot in which the body of the deceased is buried. The probate court shall determine, after notice, to whom the same shall be paid and the amount thereof, and such amount shall be allowed the executor or administrator in his account.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 17 - Expense of Procuring Surety Chargeable on Estate

Section 17. Money paid with the approval of the judge of probate to a corporation qualified to act in the commonwealth in guaranteeing the fidelity of persons and in acting as surety on bonds, or to any person for acting as surety on any official bond given to such probate court, may be allowed as a charge against the estate and in the case of trusteeship shall be a charge against principal, except that if and so long as the trust estate shall consist wholly of real estate the money so paid shall be a charge against income.
MA Gen L ch 206 § 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 206 - Accounts and Settlements of Executors, Administrators, Guardians, Conservators, Trustees and Receivers|Section 31 - Settlement by Receivers

Section 31. The following claims shall, in the settlement of estates by receivers, be entitled to priority in the order named:  First, Debts due the United States or debts due, or taxes assessed by, the commonwealth or a county, city or town therein.  Second, Wages to an amount of not more than one hundred dollars due an operative, clerk or servant for labor, either performed within one year last preceding the appointment of the receiver or for the payment for which a suit, which was commenced within one year after the performance of the labor, is pending or was terminated within one year after said appointment.  Third, Debts to an amount of not more than fifty dollars due physicians for medical attendance on the debtor or his family, rendered within six months prior to said appointment.
MA Gen L ch 207 § 1 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 207 - Marriage|Section 1 - Marriage of Man to Certain Relatives Prohibited

Section 1. No man shall marry his mother, grandmother, daughter, granddaughter, sister, stepmother, grandfather's wife, grandson's wife, wife's mother, wife's grandmother, wife's daughter, wife's granddaughter, brother's daughter, sister's daughter, father's sister or mother's sister.
MA Gen L ch 207 § 2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 207 - Marriage|Section 2 - Marriage of Woman to Certain Relatives Prohibited

Section 2. No woman shall marry her father, grandfather, son, grandson, brother, stepfather, grandmother's husband, daughter's husband, granddaughter's husband, husband's grandfather, husband's son, husband's grandson, brother's son, sister's son, father's brother or mother's brother.
MA Gen L ch 207 § 3 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 207 - Marriage|Section 3 - Application of Secs. 1 and 2

Section 3. The prohibition of the two preceding sections shall continue notwithstanding the dissolution, by death or divorce, of the marriage by which the affinity was created, unless the divorce was granted because such marriage was originally unlawful or void.
MA Gen L ch 207 § 4 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 207 - Marriage|Section 4 - Polygamy Prohibited; Exception

Section 4. A marriage contracted while either party thereto has a former wife or husband living, except as provided in section six and in chapter two hundred and eight, shall be void.
MA Gen L ch 207 § 6 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 207 - Marriage|Section 6 - Marriage During Existence of Former Marriage; Validity

Section 6. If a person, during the lifetime of a husband or wife with whom the marriage is in force, enters into a subsequent marriage contract with due legal ceremony and the parties thereto live together thereafter as husband and wife, and such subsequent marriage contract was entered into by one of the parties in good faith, in the full belief that the former husband or wife was dead, that the former marriage had been annulled by a divorce, or without knowledge of such former marriage, they shall, after the impediment to their marriage has been removed by the death or divorce of the other party to the former marriage, if they continue to live together as husband and wife in good faith on the part of one of them, be held to have been legally married from and after the removal of such impediment, and the issue of such subsequent marriage shall be considered as the legitimate issue of both parents.
MA Gen L ch 207 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 207 - Marriage|Section 7 - Marriage of Minors Prohibited; Exception

Section 7. A magistrate or minister shall not solemnize a marriage if he has reasonable cause to believe that a party to the intended marriage is under eighteen unless the provisions of sections twenty-four and twenty-five have been satisfied.
MA Gen L ch 207 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 207 - Marriage|Section 8 - Prohibited Marriages Void Without Judgment

Section 8. A marriage solemnized within the commonwealth which is prohibited by reason of consanguinity or affinity between the parties, or of either of them having a former wife or husband living, shall be void without a judgment of divorce or other legal process.
MA Gen L ch 207 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 207 - Marriage|Section 10 - Prohibited Foreign Marriages; Null and Void

Section 10. If any person residing and intending to continue to reside in this commonwealth is disabled or prohibited from contracting marriage under the laws of this commonwealth and goes into another jurisdiction and there contracts a marriage prohibited and declared void by the laws of this commonwealth, such marriage shall be null and void for all purposes in this commonwealth with the same effect as though such prohibited marriage had been entered into in this commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 207 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 207 - Marriage|Section 14 - Determination of Validity of Marriage

Section 14. If the validity of a marriage is doubted, either party may institute an action for annulling such marriage, or if it is denied or doubted by either party, the other party may institute an action for affirming the marriage. Such action shall be commenced in the same manner as an action for divorce, and all the provisions of chapter two hundred and eight relative to actions for divorce shall, so far as appropriate, apply to actions under this section. Upon proof of the validity or nullity of the marriage, it shall be affirmed or declared void by a judgment of the court, and such judgment of nullity may be made although the marriage was solemnized out of the commonwealth, if at that time and also when the action was commenced the plaintiff had his domicile in the commonwealth, or if he had resided in this commonwealth for five years last preceding the commencement of said action, unless the court finds that he has removed into this commonwealth for the purpose of obtaining said judgment.  The register of probate shall, within two days after the expiration of the appeal period following the entry of a judgment annulling a marriage, or if an appeal was taken within two days after entry of final judgment pursuant to a rescript of the appellate court, send an attested copy thereof to the commissioner of public health, the clerk or registrar of the city or town in the commonwealth where the marriage was solemnized, and the clerk or the registrar of each city and town in the commonwealth where a party to the marriage dwelt at the time of the marriage. The commissioner of public health and every clerk or registrar to whom such an attested copy is sent shall, forthwith upon receipt of such copy, enter upon the margin of his record of the marriage a note of reference to the judgment of annulment.
MA Gen L ch 207 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations|Title III - Domestic Relations|Chapter 207 - Marriage|Section 15 - Issue of Certain Void Marriages

Section 15. The issue of a marriage declared void by reason of consanguinity or affinity between the parties shall be a person born out of wedlock.