General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 154 Assignment of Wages

• Massachusetts General Laws - Assignment defined - Chapter 154, Section 1
  The term “assignment”, as used in this chapter, shall include every instrument purporting to transfer an interest in or an authority to collect the future...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Security for loans; acceptance by employer; recordation; consent of wife; period of assignment - Chapter 154, Section 2
  No assignment of or order for wages or salary to be earned in the future to secure a loan of less than three thousand dollars...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Conditions for validity - Chapter 154, Section 3
  No assignment of or order for future wages other than one subject to the preceding section shall be valid for a period exceeding two years...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Delivery of copies of assignment; delivery of written account - Chapter 154, Section 4
  No assignment under section three shall be valid unless a copy thereof is delivered to the assignor by the assignee at the date of the...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Standard form - Chapter 154, Section 5
  The standard form of assignment shall be as follows: Know All Men by these Presents. That I,     of    in the county of    , for...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Trustee process; effect of assignment - Chapter 154, Section 6
  No assignment of future earnings shall be valid against a trustee process, unless before service of the writ upon the alleged trustee the assignment has...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Effect of assignment - Chapter 154, Section 7
  Except as above provided, an assignment of wages made in accordance with this chapter shall bind all wages earned by the assignor within the period...
• Massachusetts General Laws - Deductions from salary - Chapter 154, Section 8
  None of the foregoing sections of this chapter, nor section one hundred and forty-eight of chapter one hundred and forty-nine, shall be applicable to or...

Last modified: September 11, 2015