General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 209 Husband and Wife
- Massachusetts General Laws - Married persons; separate property and property held as tenants by entirety; liability for debts - Chapter 209, Section 1
The real and personal property of any person shall, upon marriage, remain the separate property of such person, and a married person may receive, receipt...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Tenants by entirety under older deed; electing treatment of tenancy - Chapter 209, Section 1A
Tenants by the entirety holding under a deed dated prior to February eleventh, nineteen hundred and eighty may elect to have their tenancy treated as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Married woman; power to contract - Chapter 209, Section 2
A married woman may make contracts, oral and written, sealed and unsealed, in the same manner as if she were sole, and may make such...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Transfers between husband and wife - Chapter 209, Section 3
Transfers of real and personal property between husband and wife shall be valid to the same extent as if they were sole.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Married woman; work and labor; presumption - Chapter 209, Section 4
Work and labor performed by a married woman for a person other than her husband and children shall, unless there is an express agreement on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Married woman; acting as fiduciary - Chapter 209, Section 5
A married woman may be an executrix, administratrix, guardian, conservator, trustee or receiver, and may bind herself and the estate which she represents without any...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Married woman; power to sue and be sued - Chapter 209, Section 6
A married woman may sue and be sued in the same manner as if she were sole; but this section shall not authorize suits between...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Married woman; liabilities - Chapter 209, Section 7
A married woman shall not be liable for her husband’s debts, nor shall her property be liable to be taken on an execution against him....
- Massachusetts General Laws - Husband; liability for wife’s debts - Chapter 209, Section 8
A husband shall not be liable upon a cause of action which originated against his wife prior to their marriage, or to pay a judgment...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Husband; liability on contracts concerning separate property of wife - Chapter 209, Section 9
Contracts made by a married woman relative to her separate property, trade, business, labor or services shall not bind her husband or render him or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1974, 147, Sec. 4 - Chapter 209, Section 10 11
Repealed, 1974, 147, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1979, 306 - Chapter 209, Section 12
Repealed, 1979,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Marriage settlements - Chapter 209, Section 13
The preceding sections shall not invalidate a marriage settlement or contract.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Release of homestead by wife of ward - Chapter 209, Section 14
If the guardian or conservator of a married man is licensed to sell real estate of his ward, the wife of the ward may join...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Wife of ward; joinder with guardian or conservator; sale of realty - Chapter 209, Section 15
If such guardian or conservator is licensed to sell the interest of the ward in any real estate of his wife, the wife may join...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Disposition of proceeds - Chapter 209, Section 16
If the wife so releases her homestead, or so conveys her own estate, the proceeds of the sale may be so invested and disposed of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Partition; joinder of husband or wife of ward with guardian or conservator - Chapter 209, Section 17
The wife of a man under guardianship or conservatorship may join with his guardian or conservator, and the guardian or conservator of a woman may...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mentally ill persons; conveyance or mortgage of real estate; release of homestead - Chapter 209, Section 18
The spouse of a person incapacitated by reason of mental illness desiring to convey said person’s real estate absolutely or by mortgage may file a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 423, Sec. 18 - Chapter 209, Section 19 20
Repealed, 1971, 423, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Mentally ill spouse; reservation of portion of proceeds upon release of homestead - Chapter 209, Section 21
If the guardian of a married ward that is incapacitated by reason of mental illness, is authorized under section eighteen to release an estate of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1971, 423, Sec. 18 - Chapter 209, Section 22 23
Repealed, 1971, 423, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Venue - Chapter 209, Section 24
Proceedings under sections eighteen and twenty-one, if the spouse of such a person who is incapacitated by reason of mental illness is an inhabitant of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Antenuptial settlements; force and effect - Chapter 209, Section 25
At any time before marriage, the parties may make a written contract providing that, after the marriage is solemnized, the whole or any designated part...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Antenuptial settlements; record; description of property - Chapter 209, Section 26
A schedule of the property intended to be affected, containing a sufficiently clear description thereof to enable a creditor of the husband or wife to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1977, 581, Sec. 3 - Chapter 209, Section 27
Repealed, 1977, 581, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Rights of married person coming from another state or country - Chapter 209, Section 28
If a married person comes from another state or country into the commonwealth, that married person shall have all the rights, powers and obligations given...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Property rights acquired in other states; effect of residence in this commonwealth - Chapter 209, Section 29
If a husband and his wife, married in another state or country, come into this commonwealth, either at the same or at different times, and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Sale or conveyance; notice to opposing absent spouse; jurisdiction of court; proof of abandonment; retransfer to opposing absent party - Chapter 209, Section 30
After the filing of a libel for divorce, or for nullity of marriage or of a petition for separate support or maintenance, and during the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Non-resident married woman; conveyance of realty - Chapter 209, Section 31
A married woman residing without this commonwealth, and owning in her own right real estate situated herein, whose husband abandoning and not sufficiently maintaining her...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Order prohibiting restraint of personal liberty of spouse; support, custody and maintenance orders; information provided to complainant; domestic violence record search; investigations; factors determining support amount - Chapter 209, Section 32
If a spouse fails, without justifiable cause, to provide suitable support of the other spouse, or deserts the other spouse, or if a married person...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 400, Sec. 45 - Chapter 209, Section 32A to 32C
Repealed, 1975, 400, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judgment for separate support; conveyance of real property; enforcement; vesting of title - Chapter 209, Section 32D
Whenever in any proceeding under section thirty-two a judgment shall be entered directing that a deed, conveyance or release of certain real estate, or interest...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judgment or order of support; enforcement - Chapter 209, Section 32E
Each judgment or order of support which is issued, reviewed or modified pursuant to this chapter shall conform to and shall be enforced in accordance...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Married persons living apart; actions for support - Chapter 209, Section 32F
(a) If no order for support pursuant to an action filed under chapters two hundred and seven, two hundred and eight or section thirty-two of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Separate support or maintenance; attachment of defendant’s property and trustee process - Chapter 209, Section 33
In an action for separate support or maintenance, an attachment of the defendant’s property may be made as upon an action for divorce; and sections...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Venue - Chapter 209, Section 34
An action under section thirty-two or thirty-six may be brought in the county where either of the parties lives, except that if the plaintiff has...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1987, 522, Sec. 15 - Chapter 209, Section 35
Repealed, 1987, 522, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Spouse living apart; conveyance and will - Chapter 209, Section 36
A probate court may upon complaint of a person, or if said person is incapacitated by reason of mental illness, of said person’s guardian or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Support orders for children of separated parents; child support guidelines; modification of orders; provisions for education and health insurance; parents convicted of first degree murder - Chapter 209, Section 37
If the parents of minor children live apart from each other, not being divorced, the probate court for the county in which said minors or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Visitation and custody orders; consideration of abuse toward parent or child; best interest of child - Chapter 209, Section 38
In issuing any temporary or permanent custody order, the probate and family court shall consider evidence of past or present abuse toward a parent or...
Last modified: September 11, 2015