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MA Gen L ch 194 § 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 194 - Public Administrators|Section 7 - Change After Grant of Letters to Public Administrator

Section 7. If, after the granting of letters of administration to a public administrator and before the final settlement of the estate, the husband, widow or an heir of the deceased, in writing, claims the right of administration or requests the appointment of some other suitable person to the trust, the probate court may, in its discretion, grant letters of administration accordingly, or if, after the granting of such letters to a public administrator, a will of the deceased is proved and allowed, said court shall grant letters testamentary or letters of administration with the will annexed. When the person to whom such letters are granted gives the bond required by law the powers of the public administrator over the estate shall cease.
MA Gen L ch 194 § 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 194 - Public Administrators|Section 8 - Death, Resignation or Removal of Public Administrator

Section 8. Upon the death, resignation or removal of a public administrator, the probate court shall issue a warrant to some other public administrator in the same county, upon his application therefor, requiring him to examine the accounts of such public administrator relative to the estates on which he has taken out letters of administration, and to return to the probate court a statement of all of such estates as are not fully administered and of the balance of each estate remaining in the hands of such public administrator at the time of his death, resignation or removal. And thereupon the court shall issue to the public administrator making the return, upon his giving the requisite bond, letters of administration upon such of said estates as are not already administered, although the personal property remaining may not amount to twenty dollars.
MA Gen L ch 194 § 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 194 - Public Administrators|Section 9 - Powers Relating to Real Property

Section 9. Public administrators may be authorized to take charge of the real property of the deceased or of any part thereof situated anywhere within the commonwealth, to lease the same, to collect the rents, and to make such repairs, and do all other things which may be considered necessary for the preservation of such real property and as a charge thereon. They may also be licensed by the probate court to sell the real property for the same purposes and in the same manner as other administrators. All laws relative to sales of land by administrators and the disposition of the proceeds shall govern such sales so far as applicable, except as otherwise provided in this chapter; provided, that the time limit imposed on sales by other administrators shall not apply to sales by public administrators, but shall be in the discretion of the court. The net proceeds of any sale after deducting the expenses thereof and other administration expenses, and such amount as may be required for the payment of debts in consequence of a deficiency in the personal property, shall, after one year from the time of the filing of the administrator's bond, except as provided in the following section, be distributed to the persons who would have been entitled to said real property in the proportions to which they would have been entitled had it not been sold.
MA Gen L ch 194 § 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 194 - Public Administrators|Section 10 - Unclaimed Balance of Estate; Deposit With Treasurer

Section 10. When an estate has been fully administered by a public administrator, or by the executor or administrator with the will annexed of a person who died leaving no known heirs, he shall deposit any balance in his hands with the state treasurer as abandoned property to be held by him subject to the provisions of chapter two hundred A.
MA Gen L ch 194 § 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 194 - Public Administrators|Section 11 - Annual Accounts; Failure to Deposit Remaining Money With Treasurer on Final Settlement

Section 11. The probate court in each county shall require every public administrator in such county to render an account of his proceedings under any letters of administration at least once a year until the trust is fulfilled. When, on final settlement of an estate, it appears that money remains in the hands of such administrator which by law should have been deposited with the state treasurer, the court shall certify that fact and a statement of the amount so withheld to said treasurer, who, unless such deposit is made within one month after the receipt of such notice, shall cause the bond of the administrator to be prosecuted for the recovery of such money.
MA Gen L ch 194 § 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 194 - Public Administrators|Section 12 - Accounting to Successor Administrator or Executor

Section 12. A public administrator shall, upon the appointment and qualification of an executor or administrator as his successor, surrender into the probate court his letters of administration in such case with an account on oath of his doings therein, and, upon a just settlement of such account, shall pay over and deliver to his successor all money remaining in his hands, and all property, effects and credits of the deceased not then administered.
MA Gen L ch 194 § 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 194 - Public Administrators|Section 13 - Administration of Pending Estates at Expiration of Administrator's Term

Section 13. Public administrators shall complete, as soon as they lawfully may, the administration of estates in their hands of which the administration is not complete at the date of the expiration of their terms.
MA Gen L ch 194 § 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 194 - Public Administrators|Section 16 - Action by District Attorney to Insure Prompt and Faithful Administration

Section 16. If a public administrator neglects to return an inventory, settle an account or perform any other duty incumbent on him in relation to an estate, and there appears to be no heir entitled thereto, the district attorney for the district where the administrator received his letters shall, in behalf of the commonwealth, prosecute all suits and do all acts necessary to insure a prompt and faithful administration of the estate and the payment of the proceeds thereof into the state treasury; and if no heir has, within two years after the granting of letters of administration, appeared and made claim in the probate court for his interest in such estate, it shall be presumed that there is no such heir and the burden of proving his existence shall be upon the public administrator.  Each register of probate shall forthwith notify the proper district attorney and the attorney general of any breach of duty on the part of a public administrator in relation to any estate under his charge, of which such register has knowledge or which the records in his registry disclose.
MA Gen L ch 194 § 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 194 - Public Administrators|Section 17 - Estates of Less Than $700

Section 17. If the total value of an estate which has come into the control of a public administrator is less than seven hundred dollars, unless the same is the balance of an estate received from a prior public administrator, he shall forthwith reduce all such property into money, not taking administration thereon, and deposit it, after payment of any outstanding funeral expenses and after deducting his reasonable expenses and charges, with the state treasurer, who shall hold it for the benefit of any other persons who may have legal claims thereon. Such claims may be presented to the comptroller within one year from such payment to the treasurer, and the comptroller shall examine such claims and allow such as may be proved to his satisfaction, and upon the expiration of the year shall forthwith certify the same to the governor and council for payment of the whole of the claims or such proportion thereof as the funds will allow.
MA Gen L ch 194 § 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 194 - Public Administrators|Section 18 - Exemption From Responsibility of Estates of Less Than $700

Section 18. A public administrator, upon making such deposit, shall file with the state treasurer an itemized account, on oath, of all his dealings, receipts, payments and charges on account of the property from which the money so deposited proceeds, including the name of the intestate, if known to him, and the state treasurer shall thereupon deliver to him a receipt for such money. Such deposit shall exempt the public administrator from all responsibility for or on account of the money so deposited.
MA Gen L ch 198 § 7a (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 198 - Insolvent Estates of Deceased Persons|Section 7a - Voidable Preferences; Surrender; Effect

Section 7A. The claims of creditors who have received preferences voidable under section ten B shall not be allowed unless such creditors shall first surrender such preferences.
MA Gen L ch 198 § 10a (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 198 - Insolvent Estates of Deceased Persons|Section 10a - Preference Defined

Section 10A. A person shall be deemed to have given a preference if, being insolvent, he has, within four months before his decease, procured or suffered a judgment to be entered against himself in favor of any person, or made a transfer of any of his property, and the effect of the enforcement of such judgment or transfer will be to enable any one of his creditors to obtain a greater percentage of his debt than any other of such creditors of the same class. Where the preference consists in a transfer, such period of four months shall not expire until four months after the date of the recording or registering of the transfer, if by law such recording or registering is required.
MA Gen L ch 198 § 10b (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 198 - Insolvent Estates of Deceased Persons|Section 10b - Voidable Preferences; Action by Executor

Section 10B. If a person shall have procured or suffered a judgment to be entered against him in favor of any person or has made a transfer of any of his property, and if, at the time of the transfer, or of the entry of the judgment, or of the recording or registering of the transfer if by law recording or registering thereof is required, and being within four months before his decease, the person be insolvent and the judgment or transfer then operate as a preference, and the person receiving it or to be benefited thereby, or his agent acting therein, shall then have reasonable cause to believe that the enforcement of such judgment or transfer would effect a preference, it shall be voidable by the executor or administrator of the debtor, and he may recover the property or its value from such person.
MA Gen L ch 198 § 10c (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 198 - Insolvent Estates of Deceased Persons|Section 10c - Voidable Preferences; Set-Off by Creditor

Section 10C. If a creditor has been preferred, and afterwards in good faith gives the debtor further credit without security of any kind for property which becomes a part of the debtor's estate, the amount of such new credit remaining unpaid at the time of his decease may be set off against the amount which would otherwise be recoverable from him.
MA Gen L ch 199 § 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 199 - Settlement of Estates of Deceased Non-Residents|Section 1 - Administration of Estates

Section 1. If administration is taken in this commonwealth on the estate of a person who was an inhabitant of any other state or country, his estate found here shall, after payment of his debts, be disposed of according to his last will, if any; otherwise his real property shall descend according to the laws of this commonwealth, and his personal property shall be distributed and disposed of according to the laws of the state or country of which he was an inhabitant.
MA Gen L ch 199 § 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 199 - Settlement of Estates of Deceased Non-Residents|Section 2 - Settlement of Estates

Section 2. After the payment of all debts for which such estate is liable in this commonwealth, the residue of the personal property may be distributed and disposed of, as provided in the preceding section, by the probate court; or, in the discretion of the court, it may be transmitted to the executor or administrator, if any, in the state or country of which the deceased was an inhabitant, to be there disposed of according to the laws thereof. But nothing herein shall be construed to prevent the distribution or transmission of part of the personal property of an estate in process of settlement when it can be done without detriment to the estate or prejudice to the creditors.
MA Gen L ch 199 § 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 199 - Settlement of Estates of Deceased Non-Residents|Section 3 - Insolvent Estates; Settlement

Section 3. If such person dies insolvent, his estate found in this commonwealth shall, as far as practicable, be so disposed of that all his creditors here and elsewhere may receive equal proportions of their respective debts.
MA Gen L ch 199 § 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 199 - Settlement of Estates of Deceased Non-Residents|Section 4 - Insolvent Estates; Transmittal to Foreign Executor; Conditions

Section 4. The estate shall not be transmitted to the foreign executor or administrator until all the creditors who are citizens of this commonwealth have received the proportion which would be due to them if the whole estate of the deceased, wherever found, which is applicable to the payment of common creditors were divided without preference among all the creditors in proportion to their respective debts; and no creditor not a citizen of this commonwealth shall be paid out of the assets found here until all those who are such citizens have received the proportion provided in the preceding section.
MA Gen L ch 199 § 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 199 - Settlement of Estates of Deceased Non-Residents|Section 5 - Insolvent Estate; Surplus; Disposition

Section 5. If there is a residue after such payment to the citizens of this commonwealth, it may be paid to any other creditors who have duly proved their debts here, in proportion to the amount due to each of them, but no one shall receive more than would be due to him if the whole estate were divided ratably among all the creditors as before provided. The remainder may be transmitted to the foreign executor or administrator; or if there is none, it shall, after the expiration of four years from the appointment of the administrator, be distributed ratably among all creditors, both citizens and others, who have proved their debts in this commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 200 § 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 200 - Settlement of Estates of Absentees|Section 1 - Receiver; Petition for Appointment

Section 1. If a person entitled to or having an interest in property within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth has disappeared or absconded from the place within or without the commonwealth where he was last known to be, and it is not known where he is, or if such person, having a spouse or minor child, dependent to any extent upon him for support, has disappeared or absconded without making sufficient provision for such support, and it is not known where he is, or if it is known that he is without the commonwealth, anyone who would under the law of the commonwealth be entitled to administer upon the estate of such absentee if he were deceased, or if no one is known to be so entitled, any suitable person, or such spouse, or some one in behalf of such spouse or minor, may file a petition under oath in the probate court for the county where any such property is situated or found, stating the name, age, occupation and last known residence or address of such absentee, the date and circumstances of the disappearance or absconding, and the names and residence of other persons, whether members of such absentee's family or otherwise, of whom inquiry may be made, and the amount of such property, real and personal, so far as known, and its location within the commonwealth, praying that a receiver of such property be appointed under this chapter. The state treasurer shall be made a party to every such petition and shall be given due notice of all subsequent proceedings under this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 200 § 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 200 - Settlement of Estates of Absentees|Section 2 - Notice to Show Cause

Section 2. The court shall issue a notice reciting the substance of the petition which shall be addressed to such absentee and to all persons who claim an interest in the property of the absentee within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth, and to all whom it may concern, citing them to appear at a time and place named and show cause why a receiver of such property should not be appointed and such property held and disposed of under this chapter.
MA Gen L ch 200 § 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 200 - Settlement of Estates of Absentees|Section 3 - Return of Notice; Publication

Section 3. The return day of said notice shall be not less than thirty nor more than sixty days after its date. The court shall order said notice to be published once in each of three successive weeks in one or more newspapers within the commonwealth, and to be posted in two or more conspicuous places in the town within the commonwealth where the absentee last resided or was known to have been either temporarily or permanently and upon each such parcel of his or her land within the commonwealth. The court shall order said notice to be mailed to the last known address of the absentee and so much of said notice as relates to land to be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county and district where the land is located. The court may order other and further notice to be given within or without the commonwealth.
MA Gen L ch 200 § 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 200 - Settlement of Estates of Absentees|Section 4 - Fees and Costs

Section 4. If the petition is dismissed, the fees and cost of publishing, serving and recording said notice shall be paid by the petitioner; if a receiver is appointed they shall be paid by the receiver and allowed in his account.
MA Gen L ch 200 § 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 200 - Settlement of Estates of Absentees|Section 5 - Receiver; Appointment; Bond

Section 5. The absentee or any person who claims an interest in any property of the absentee within the jurisdiction of the commonwealth may appear and show cause why the prayer of the petition should not be granted. The court may after hearing dismiss the petition, or it may appoint a receiver of such property. In making such appointment the court may give preference to anyone who would under the law of the commonwealth be entitled to administer the estate of such absentee if he were deceased or to any person who is found by the court to have been at the date of such disappearance or absconding an agent of such absentee and in possession of a substantial portion of such property. If a receiver is appointed the court shall find and record the date of the disappearance or absconding of the absentee; and such receiver shall give bond to the judge of probate and his successors in office in such sum and with such condition as the court orders, with a company named in section one hundred and five of chapter one hundred and seventy-five and approved by the court as surety thereon.