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MA Gen L ch 217 § 6a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 6a - Special Judge or Register; Interest in Proceedings; Prohibition

Section 6A. No special judge of probate, register, assistant register or person employed in any registry of probate and insolvency shall be interested in, or benefited by, the fees or emoluments which may arise in any matter pending before the probate court or court of insolvency of his county; nor shall he act as counsel or attorney, either in or out of court, in any matter pending before said courts or in an appeal therefrom; nor shall he, except as otherwise provided, be appointed or act as executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, commissioner, appraiser or assignee of or upon an estate within the jurisdiction of his court; nor shall he be interested in the fees or emoluments arising from any of said trusts; provided, that nothing in this section shall prohibit the practice of law before said courts by a special judge of probate. Section seven of chapter one hundred and ninety-two and section seven of this chapter shall apply to a special judge of probate.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 6b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 6b - Prohibitions and Restrictions on Justices; Assignment to Another County

Section 6B. No justice, circuit justice or special justice sitting in a probate and family court shall be interested in, or be benefitted by, the fees or emoluments which may arise in any matter pending before any probate court or which may arise in any suit or action pending in any court of this commonwealth where the subject matter or cause of action is founded upon or derived from proceedings begun in any of the probate courts nor shall he, except as otherwise provided, be appointed or act as executor, administrator, guardian, conservator, trustee under a will, commissioner, appraiser or assignee of or upon an estate within the jurisdiction of any probate court; nor shall he be interested in the fees or emoluments arising from any of said trusts. Full-time justices, or circuit justices provided for under this chapter, shall devote their entire time during ordinary business hours to their duties and shall not, directly or indirectly, engage in the practice of law. The judge of probate for Dukes county and the judge of probate for Nantucket county shall sit in the probate and family court for any other county upon designation thereto by the chief justice for said department pursuant to section eight, and when so assigned shall receive from the commonwealth the expenses incurred by them.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 7 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 7 - Judge and Register; Appointment as Guardian or Executor

Section 7. If a judge or register desires to be appointed guardian of his minor child, who is an inhabitant of or resides in the same county, such appointment may be made, and all subsequent proceedings in regard thereto had, in the probate court of an adjoining county. A judge who is named as executor of or trustee under a will may be appointed as such except that, if such will is offered for probate in his county, such appointment shall be made, and all subsequent proceedings in regard thereto had, in the probate court of an adjoining county.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 8 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 8 - Chief Justice; Powers and Duties

Section 8. The justice provided for under the provisions of section 1 of chapter 211B as the chief justice for the probate and family court department, in addition to his judicial powers and duties, shall, subject to the superintendence authority of the supreme judicial court as provided in section 3 of chapter 211, have the power, authority and responsibility of a chief justice as set forth in section 10 of chapter 211B.  The chief justice may establish forms for the annual reports of the work of the registers of the several courts; and said registers shall annually, on or before October 1, prepare and file with the chief justice reports of the work of said courts during the preceding court year, and said reports shall also be filed with the chief justice of the trial court. Said chief justice of the probate and family court shall also have the powers and duties described in section 10 of chapter 211B and section 42 of this chapter; except that none of the powers herein described or referred to shall be construed as authorizing said chief justice to alter or affect the provisions of section 58, 59, 60 or 62 of chapter 215.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 81/2 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 81/2 - Deputy Court Administrator

Section 81/2. The deputy court administrator provided for under the provisions of section 1 of chapter 211B as the deputy court administrator for the probate and family court department shall, subject to the superintendence authority of the supreme judicial court as provided in section 3 of chapter 211, have the power, authority and responsibility of a deputy court administrator as set forth in section 10 of chapter 211B.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 8a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 8a - Provision of Suitable Offices

Section 8A. The chief justice and deputy court administrator shall be provided with suitable offices.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 9 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 9 - Out of County Authority; Probate Judges

Section 9. A judge of probate may, in any case in which a judgment, decree, order or allowance can be made without a hearing, and in any case after a hearing, make such judgment, decree, order or allowance, and approve bonds, at any place in the commonwealth, with the same effect as if so made and approved in his county; and if such judge, under section eight of this chapter, acts in a county other than his own, such judgment, decree, order or allowance may be signed, and bonds approved, outside the county where he may have been designated to act. This section shall not affect the validity of any judgment, decree, order or allowance signed or bond approved prior to March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 10 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 10 - Vacancy; Powers of Acting Judge; Bonds

Section 10. Bonds required to be given to the judge of probate shall be given, in case of vacancy in the office of judge, to the acting judge, and to his successors in office, and all business shall be done in his name or in the name of the probate court or the court of insolvency for the county where the case or matter is pending; but bonds may be approved, and other acts required to be done or certified by the judge may be done or certified, by the acting judge.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 11 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 11 - Judges; Inspection of Records; Forfeiture of Bonds of Registers; Notice

Section 11. Judges of probate shall semi-annually inspect the doings of the registers of their courts, and see that the records and files are made up seasonably and kept in good order; and if the records are left incomplete for more than six consecutive months, such neglect, unless caused by illness or casualty, shall be adjudged a forfeiture of the bond of the register. In case of any neglect causing a forfeiture of the bond of the register or assistant register, the judge shall forthwith give written notice thereof to the state treasurer, who shall thereupon cause the bond to be put in suit; and the amount recovered in such suit shall be applied to the expense of making up the deficient records under the direction of the court in whose records the deficiency exists, and the surplus, if any, shall be carried into the account of such treasurer. This section shall not exempt registers or assistant registers from an action for any other breach of their bond, or from other liability for neglect or misconduct in office.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 12 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 12 - Bond of Register

Section 12. Each register shall give bond to the state treasurer for the faithful performance of his official duties, in a sum not less than one thousand nor more than ten thousand dollars, as ordered by the judge, with one or more sureties approved by him.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 13 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 13 - Temporary Register

Section 13. Upon the death, resignation, removal or absence of the register, if there is no assistant register, or if he also is absent, the judge shall appoint a temporary register to act until a register is qualified, or until the disability is removed. Such temporary register shall be sworn before the judge, and a certificate thereof, with his appointment, shall be recorded with the proceedings of each court in which he acts.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 14 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 14 - Register; Duty to Certify Amount of Assistance

Section 14. The register shall certify upon his records and to the comptroller the number of days, the dates upon which, and the occasions for which, the duties of the judge of probate are performed by a judge of another county under section eight.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 15 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 15 - Register; Duties; Custody of Records, Etc.

Section 15. The register shall have the care and custody of all books, documents and papers pertaining to his court, or deposited with the records of insolvency or filed in the registry of probate, and shall carefully preserve them and deliver them to his successor. He may, with the approval of the chief justice and at the expense of the commonwealth cause copies of the indexes, or new indexes, to the records which are in his custody, to be printed and sold at a price not less than the cost of paper, printing and binding. He shall perform all other duties, pertaining to his office, required by law or prescribed by the judge. He may attest the records by the volume, and the attestation shall be sufficient when the volume containing the same bears the attest, with the written signature of the register or other person lawfully authorized.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 15a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 15a - Register or Assistant; Printing or Typing of Names on Filed Instruments

Section 15A. The register or assistant register may print or type the name of any person whose signature appears on any instrument filed in the registry of probate and is not clearly legible, such name to be printed or typed directly below such signature.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 15b (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 15b - Inventory Involving Real Estate in Registry District Other Than District in Which Filed; Recording of Information

Section 15B. Whenever the inventory or schedule filed by a fiduciary indicates that a decedent, ward, absentee or beneficiary owns or owned real estate in a registry district other than that in which the inventory or schedule is filed, the fiduciary shall cause to be inserted in said inventory or schedule a reference to the volume, page number and district in which the original deed has been recorded, and shall forthwith cause to be filed in the registry of deeds for each registry district where any of the land included in the inventory or schedule lies, a notice of such inventory or schedule containing information relative to the location of the land in such district, the volume and page number of the deeds book in which the land is recorded and the probate docket number and name of the estate. Such registry of deeds shall record and index such notice in the grantor index under the name of the decedent, ward, absentee or beneficiary.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 15c (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 15c - Inventory Involving Real Estate Located in Another County; Duties of Registers

Section 15C. The register in each county shall, upon the receipt of an inventory, filed in an estate matter being probated in his court, which contains as an asset an interest in real estate located in another county, send a certified copy of the will or petition for administration and inventory to the register in the county in which the real estate is located and also to the register of deeds in said county. Upon receipt of said copies each such register shall file them with the records of their respective offices in the same manner as if such papers had been originally filed in their office.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 16 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 16 - Register; Copies of Certain Papers; Mailing to Commissioner of Revenue

Section 16. The register shall, except as herein provided, send by mail to the commissioner of revenue a copy of every inventory and appraisal filed in his court by an executor, administrator or trustee, within thirty days after the filing of the same. The register shall also, within the same period, send by mail to said commissioner a copy of the will of the decedent, if such has been allowed by the probate court. The register shall also furnish such copies of papers in his office as the commissioner shall require, and shall furnish information as to the records and files in his office in such form as the commissioner may require. A refusal or neglect by the register so to send a copy of such inventory and appraisal or to furnish such copies or information shall be a breach of his official bond; but the commissioner may excuse him from sending copies of inventories and of wills of estates no part of which, in his judgment, appears to be subject to a tax under chapter sixty-five or chapter sixty-five C. If an executor, administrator or trustee fails to file said inventory and appraisal within three months from the date of his appointment, the register shall within thirty days after the expiration thereof notify the commissioner of such failure.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 16a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 16a - Register; Copies of Petitions for Probate of Will, Appointment of Personal Representative, and Adjudication of Intestacy

Section 16A. The register in each county shall, upon the request in writing of the board of assessors of any city or town in the register's county, furnish the board with copies of petitions, formal and informal, pursuant to sections 3–301 and 3–402 of chapter 190B, for probate of will, for appointment of personal representative and for the adjudication of intestacy, filed in the county registry in relation to decedents whose domicile, as stated in the petition, was in the city or town of the board.  The register may furnish the board with a list of such petitions that shall contain: (1) the name of decedent; (2) decedent's date of death; (3) street address and city or town of decedent as stated on the petition; (4) filing date of petition; and (5) docket number.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 17 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 17 - Register to Report Vacancy and Appointment of Assistant

Section 17. The register shall forthwith report to the state secretary a vacancy in the office of assistant register and the name, residence and date of appointment of the person appointed to fill such vacancy.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 18 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 18 - Register; Furnishing Copies; Fees

Section 18. The register shall furnish copies of records or other papers in his custody and shall collect the legal fees therefor.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 19 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 19 - Register; Reports to Division of Public Charities

Section 19. Whenever any instrument creating or increasing an estate or fund for benevolent, charitable, humane or philanthropic purposes is filed for record in a registry of probate, the register shall forthwith send to the division of public charities established by section eight B of chapter twelve a statement setting forth the book and page in the registry where the instrument is recorded, with the name, if any, of the estate or fund, and further stating by whom said estate or fund has been created or increased, and by whom it is to be administered.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 20 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 20 - Register to Account

Section 20. The register shall annually, on the first Mondays of January, April, July and October, account for and pay over to the state treasurer all fees and compensation which have been received by him otherwise than by salary.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 21 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 21 - Register; Receipt of Complaints, Petitions, and Applications

Section 21. He may at any time receive and place on file complaints, petitions and applications to the probate court or the court of insolvency, and may issue orders of notice, summonses and citations in like manner and with like effect as if issued by the judge; but if the judge considers such notice insufficient, he may order further notice.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 22 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 22 - Register; Power to Issue Attachments, Appoint Appraisers, Etc.

Section 22. The register may issue process of attachment and of execution, and all other processes and all warrants, letters and licenses necessary to carry into effect any order, judgment or decree of the courts, and they may run into any county and shall be executed and obeyed throughout the commonwealth. A facsimile of his signature imprinted by him on all such warrants, letters and licenses and all processes except executions shall have the same validity as his written signature. He may appoint appraisers to make any inventory required to be returned to said courts.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 22a (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 22a - Identification of Husbands and Wives in Documents and Communications

Section 22A. Whenever the register, in any communication, document or writing intended for use outside the registry, identifies a husband and wife, he shall use the name of both husband and wife and shall not use a legal phrase as a substitute for either name.
MA Gen L ch 217 § 23 (2021)
2021 Massachusetts General Laws|Part III - Courts, Judicial Officers and Proceedings in Civil Cases|Title I - Courts and Judicial Officers|Chapter 217 - Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency|Section 23 - First Assistant Registers

Section 23. The register of the respective courts of the probate and family court department may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, appoint for a term of 3 years and may, with the approval of the chief justice, remove a first assistant register of probate. Before entering upon the performance of his duties, a first assistant register shall take the oath prescribed by the constitution. The appointments shall be as follows:  Essex, 1 first assistant register  Middlesex, 1 first assistant register  Norfolk, 1 first assistant register  Suffolk, 1 first assistant register  Worcester, 1 first assistant register.  Those persons serving as first assistant registers in the Barnstable, Berkshire, Bristol, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Plymouth and Suffolk divisions of the probate and family court department shall become judicial case managers for a term of 3 years pursuant to section 23C in their respective courts.