General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 202 Sales, Mortgages and Leases of Real Estate by Executors, Administrators, Guardians and Conservators
- Massachusetts General Laws - Realty; sale to satisfy debts - Chapter 202, Section 1
If the personal property of a deceased person is insufficient to pay his debts, legacies and charges of administration, his executor or administrator shall, for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Realty subject to sale - Chapter 202, Section 2
The real estate so liable to be sold shall include all land of the deceased, all rights of entry and of action and all other...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Realty subject to curtesy or dower; sale; proceeds - Chapter 202, Section 3
Upon a petition by an executor or administrator to sell real estate of a deceased person, if it shall appear that a surviving husband is...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Undevised realty; priority of disposition - Chapter 202, Section 4
Real estate not devised shall be first chargeable with the payment of debts, legacies or charges of administration in exoneration of real estate devised, unless...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rents and profits; payment of debts; limitations - Chapter 202, Section 4A
If the personal property of a deceased person appears to be insufficient to pay his debts, the probate court may, subject to the rights of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Realty of ward; sale - Chapter 202, Section 5
If the personal property in the hands of a guardian or conservator is insufficient to pay the debts of the ward, with the charges of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Grant of license - Chapter 202, Section 6
A license to an executor or administrator to sell the real estate of a deceased person or to a guardian or conservator to sell the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition; contents - Chapter 202, Section 7
To obtain such license, the executor, administrator, guardian or conservator shall file a petition stating the value of the personal property in his hands, the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Realty; detrimental effect of partial sale; disposition of whole estate - Chapter 202, Section 8
If it is represented in such petition and appears to the court to be necessary to sell a part of the real estate, and that...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marshaling assets; testamentary provisions - Chapter 202, Section 9
If a will contains a provision for the payment of debts, or which may require or induce the court to marshal the assets in a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of petition; service - Chapter 202, Section 10
No license to sell real estate shall be granted to an executor or administrator until notice of the petition and of the time and place...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of petition; interested persons - Chapter 202, Section 11
No license to sell real estate shall be granted to a guardian or conservator until such notice as the court orders has been given to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - License to guardian of spendthrift or person incapacitated by reason of mental illness; notice - Chapter 202, Section 12
No license to sell real estate shall be granted to the guardian of a spendthrift who resides in the commonwealth, or of a person who...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond; posting by interested party to satisfy debts; effect - Chapter 202, Section 13
No license shall be granted to an executor or administrator, if any person interested in the estate gives bond to him in a sum and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public or private sale of realty - Chapter 202, Section 14
Upon a petition of an executor or administrator for a license to sell real estate of the deceased or of a guardian or conservator to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Notice of sale by auction - Chapter 202, Section 15
An executor, administrator, guardian or conservator shall give notice of the time and place of a sale by auction by causing notices thereof to be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Affidavits; evidence of notice - Chapter 202, Section 16
An affidavit of the executor, administrator, guardian or conservator, or of a person in his behalf, filed and recorded with a copy of the notice...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Adjournment of sale - Chapter 202, Section 17
If at the time appointed for such sale the executor, administrator, guardian or conservator considers it for the interest of all persons concerned that the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Fraudulent conveyances; recovery - Chapter 202, Section 18
If an executor or administrator is licensed to sell land which has been fraudulently conveyed by the deceased or is fraudulently held by another person...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Distribution; sale of realty; procedure - Chapter 202, Section 19
The probate court may, upon petition of an administrator, administrator with the will annexed, or executor filed within one year after the date of the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale of realty for payment of debts; limitation of time - Chapter 202, Section 20
No interest in the real estate of a deceased person conveyed absolutely or in mortgage for value and in good faith by an instrument duly...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Estate expenses; execution on conveyed property; limitation of time - Chapter 202, Section 20A
No interest in the real estate of a deceased person conveyed absolutely or in mortgage for value and in good faith by an instrument duly...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sales for maintenance or investment; purpose and nature of sale - Chapter 202, Section 21
If the income of the estate of a ward is insufficient to maintain him and his family or if it appears that it would be...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition and license to sell property for maintenance or investment; form - Chapter 202, Section 22
To obtain such license, the guardian or conservator shall file a petition setting forth the condition of the estate and the facts and circumstances on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Maintenance; disposition of proceeds of sale - Chapter 202, Section 23
If the sale is made for the maintenance of the ward and his family, the guardian or conservator shall apply the proceeds, so far as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Investment; disposition of proceeds of sale - Chapter 202, Section 24
If the property is sold in order to place on interest or invest the proceeds, the guardian or conservator shall make the investment according to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Property of minors sold for investment; persons authorized to sell - Chapter 202, Section 25
A sale of the property of a minor for the purpose of investment may be made upon the petition of the guardian or any friend...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Property of minors sold for investment; disposition of proceeds of sale - Chapter 202, Section 26
If the sale is made by a person other than the guardian, the proceeds shall forthwith be paid to the guardian upon his giving to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sales by guardian of non-resident ward; transfer of proceeds to foreign executor - Chapter 202, Section 27
A guardian or conservator appointed within the commonwealth, whose ward removes from or resides out of the commonwealth, may sell the real estate of his...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Executor or administrator; authority to mortgage - Chapter 202, Section 28
The probate court may, upon petition and after notice to all persons interested, if upon a hearing it appears to be for the benefit of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Guardian or conservator; authority to mortgage - Chapter 202, Section 29
The probate court may, upon petition of a guardian or conservator, if, after notice and a hearing, it appears to be necessary or expedient, authorize...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Petition and decree for mortgage; form - Chapter 202, Section 30
A petition under either of the two preceding sections shall set forth a description of the estate to be mortgaged, the amount of money necessary...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Leases; realty of ward - Chapter 202, Section 31
The probate court may, upon the petition of a guardian or conservator setting forth a description of the real estate of his ward which he...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign executor; license to sell realty - Chapter 202, Section 32
An executor or administrator appointed in another state or country upon the estate of a person who was not at the time of his death...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign guardian or conservator; license to sell realty of ward - Chapter 202, Section 33
If a person who resides out of the commonwealth is under guardianship or conservatorship in the state or country where he resides and has no...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign fiduciary; bond; sufficiency; filing - Chapter 202, Section 34
If the court finds that such foreign guardian or conservator has given bond with sufficient surety or sureties, in the state or country where he...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Foreign fiduciary; proceedings; notice - Chapter 202, Section 35
A foreign executor, administrator, guardian or conservator who has been licensed to sell real estate shall, except as otherwise provided, give notice of the time...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tenants by entirety; joinder in sale, mortgage or lease of realty - Chapter 202, Section 36
On petition under any provision of this chapter by a guardian or conservator of a ward who is a tenant by the entirety of real...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Decree upon petition for leave to sell property; scope - Chapter 202, Section 37
The decree of a probate court upon a petition for leave to sell real or personal property shall be sufficient to authorize any action requiring...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Decree; presumptions; highest possible price - Chapter 202, Section 38
After the entry of a decree authorizing or licensing an executor, administrator, guardian, conservator or trustee to sell real estate at a public or private...
Last modified: September 11, 2015