General Laws of Massachusetts - Chapter 217 Judges and Registers of Probate and Insolvency
- Massachusetts General Laws - Divisions; justices; definitions - Chapter 217, Section 1
For each county there shall be a division of the probate and family court department of the trial court, and in each division except those...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judges; number in certain counties; first justices, powers, terms - Chapter 217, Section 2
There shall be six judges of probate in the county of Middlesex, four judges of probate in the counties of Norfolk, Bristol, Suffolk, Worcester and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Secs. 139 to 141 - Chapter 217, Section 2A to 3A
Repealed, 1978, 478, Secs. 139 to
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hampshire county; associate justice - Chapter 217, Section 3B
There shall be an associate justice of the trial court appointed in Hampshire county, hereinbefore known as the special judge of probate and insolvency in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Circuit justices; appointment; expenses - Chapter 217, Section 3C
There shall be 11 associate justices of the trial court appointed for the probate and family court department who shall be and perform the duties...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registers of probate and insolvency - Chapter 217, Section 4
There shall be in each county a register of probate and insolvency, who shall hold office for six years beginning with the first Wednesday in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Oath of judge - Chapter 217, Section 5
Each judge of probate, before entering upon the performance of his official duties, in addition to the oaths prescribed by the constitution, shall take and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Oath of register - Chapter 217, Section 5A
Each register, before entering upon the performance of his official duties, in addition to the oaths prescribed by the constitution, shall take and subscribe an...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 143 - Chapter 217, Section 6
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Special judge or register; interest in proceedings; prohibition - Chapter 217, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Prohibitions and restrictions on justices; assignment to another county - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judge and register; appointment as guardian or executor - Chapter 217, 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,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Chief justice; powers and duties - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Deputy court administrator - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Provision of suitable offices - Chapter 217, Section 8A
The chief justice and deputy court administrator shall be provided with suitable offices.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Out of county authority; probate judges - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Vacancy; powers of acting judge; bonds - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judges; inspection of records; forfeiture of bonds of registers; notice - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bond of register - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary register - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register; duty to certify amount of assistance - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register; duties; custody of records, etc. - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register or assistant; printing or typing of names on filed instruments - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inventory involving real estate in registry district other than district in which filed; recording of information - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inventory involving real estate located in another county; duties of registers - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register; copies of certain papers; mailing to commissioner of revenue - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register to report vacancy and appointment of assistant - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register; furnishing copies; fees - Chapter 217, Section 18
The register shall furnish copies of records or other papers in his custody and shall collect the legal fees therefor.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register; reports to division of public charities - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register to account - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register; receipt of complaints, petitions, and applications - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Register; power to issue attachments, appoint appraisers, etc. - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Identification of husbands and wives in documents and communications - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - First assistant registers - Chapter 217, 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...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant registers - Chapter 217, Section 23A
In addition to the first assistant registers of probate provided for in section 23, the registers of the respective courts of the probate and family...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Administrative deputy assistants - Chapter 217, Section 23B
The registers of probate of the respective courts of the probate and family court department for the following counties may, subject to the approval of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Judicial case managers - Chapter 217, Section 23C
The first justice of the respective courts of the probate and family court department may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant judicial case managers - Chapter 217, Section 23D
In addition to the judicial case managers of the probate and family court provided for in section 23C, the first justices of the respective courts...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 149 - Chapter 217, Section 24 to 25A
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant registers; official signatures - Chapter 217, Section 26
The signing of the name of any second, third or fourth assistant register followed by the designation, “assistant register”, shall be a sufficient official signature.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant registers; duties - Chapter 217, Section 27
An assistant register shall perform his duties under the direction of the register and shall pay over to the register all fees and amounts received...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Duties of judicial case managers - Chapter 217, Section 27A
A judicial case manager and an assistant judicial case manager shall perform his duties under the direction of the first justice and shall pay over...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Suffolk county; clerk to administer oaths in probate proceedings - Chapter 217, Section 28
The first justice of the Suffolk county court may, subject to the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, appoint a...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Middlesex county; clerk to administer oaths in probate proceedings - Chapter 217, Section 29
The first justice of the Middlesex county court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, appoint a clerk...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Dukes county; clerk to administer oaths in probate proceedings - Chapter 217, Section 29A
The first justice of the Dukes county court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, appoint a clerk...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Nantucket county; clerk to administer oaths in probate proceedings - Chapter 217, Section 29B
The first justice for the Nantucket county court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, appoint a clerk...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Barnstable probate court; deputy assistant registers - Chapter 217, Section 29C
The register of the Barnstable probate court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, designate 3 employees as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Berkshire probate court; deputy assistant register - Chapter 217, Section 29D
The register of the Berkshire probate court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, designate 1 employee as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hampden probate court; deputy assistant registers - Chapter 217, Section 29E
The register of the Hampden probate court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, designate 6 employees as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Worcester probate court; deputy assistant registers - Chapter 217, Section 29F
The register of the Worcester probate and family court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, designate 6...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Bristol probate and family court; deputy assistant registers - Chapter 217, Section 29G
The register of the Bristol probate and family court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, designate 3...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Hampshire probate court first justice; deputy assistant registers - Chapter 217, Section 29H
The register of the Hampshire probate and family court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, designate 3...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Plymouth probate court; deputy assistant registers - Chapter 217, Section 29I
The register of the Plymouth probate and family court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, designate 5...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Essex probate and family court; deputy assistant register - Chapter 217, Section 29J
The register of the Essex probate and family court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, designate 1...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Franklin probate and family court; deputy assistant register - Chapter 217, Section 29K
The register of the Franklin probate and family court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, designate 1...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Norfolk probate and family court; deputy assistant register - Chapter 217, Section 29L
The register of the Norfolk probate and family court may, with the approval of the chief justice of the probate and family court, designate 1...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Court officers; appointment for certain counties - Chapter 217, Section 30
The judges of probate for the counties of Suffolk, Middlesex, Plymouth and Norfolk may appoint three officers, and the judges of probate for the counties...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec. 117 - Chapter 217, Section 31
Repealed, 1992, 379, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 157 - Chapter 217, Section 31A to 32C
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Allowance to registers for assistance - Chapter 217, Section 33
The registers for the several counties shall annually be allowed for assistance in their several counties, to be paid by the commonwealth, such sums as...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 157 - Chapter 217, Section 34
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec. 159 - Chapter 217, Section 34A
Repealed, 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Salaries of registers, administrative deputy assistants, assistant registers, etc.; payment - Chapter 217, Section 35
The salaries of registers, including administrative deputy assistants, judicial case managers, assistant judicial case managers, first assistant registers and assistant registers shall be paid by...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Registers; salaries - Chapter 217, Section 35A
The salaries of the registers of the probate and family court department shall be 81.57 per cent of the salary of the chief justice of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Assistant registers, judicial case managers and administrative deputy assistants; salaries - Chapter 217, Section 35B
The salaries of first assistant registers, judicial case managers and administrative deputy assistants of the probate and family court department shall be 83.5 per cent...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 2001, 177, Sec. 43B - Chapter 217, Section 35C
Repealed, 2001, 177, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1926, 380, Secs. 3, 4 - Chapter 217, Section 36 37
Repealed, 1926, 380, Secs. 3,
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1937, 408, Sec. 2 - Chapter 217, Section 38
Repealed, 1937, 408, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Court officers and messengers; compensation - Chapter 217, Section 39
The compensation of court officers for attendance at sessions of the probate courts and of messengers for said courts, whose appointment is authorized by law,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1975, 862, Sec. 4; 1978, 478, Sec. 163 - Chapter 217, Section 40
Repealed, 1975, 862, Sec. 4; 1978, 478, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1963, 819, Sec. 5 - Chapter 217, Section 41
Repealed, 1963, 819, Sec.
- Massachusetts General Laws - Traveling expenses - Chapter 217, Section 42
Judges, registers, judicial case managers, assistant judicial case managers, first assistant registers and assistant registers shall receive from the commonwealth their actual and proper traveling...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Temporary register; compensation; fees - Chapter 217, Section 43
A temporary register shall be entitled to the same compensation as the register, and shall be paid by him if the appointment is caused by...
Last modified: September 11, 2015