Family
This document is a written contract between a couple who are separating or divorcing that outlines how they will handle various aspects of their lives during and after the separation. It covers issues like property division, child custody, child support, and spousal support.
What is a Separation Agreement?
Three different kinds of "interested persons" who are entitled to file for Voluntary Administration.
Who are: heirs, devisees, children, spouses, creditors, beneficiaries, and any others having a property right in or claims against a trust estate or the estate of a decedent, ward, or protected person.
G. L. c. 190B, § 1-201(24)
This Court has the same authority as the Housing Court ('concurrent jurisdiction') to hear cases such as an eviction or a small claims case for failure to return a security deposit.
What is the District Court Department (or the Boston Municipal Court)?
A temporary guardianship of a minor can last for up to this many days before a hearing is required.
What is 90 days?
By filing this type of case, the Plaintiff is alleging that a mistake on a certificate (such as birth, death, marriage) was made by Keeper of the Records of a City or Town and it wasn't Plaintiff's fault.
Correction of Vital Record
To change an existing custody Judgment, a party must file this pleading to open a case.
What is a Complaint for Modification?
A Complaint for Contempt must be served at least this many days before a hearing.
What is seven (7)?
A landlord must serve this document before filing for eviction for nonpayment of rent.
What is a 14-Day Notice to Quit?
Once appointed, a permanent guardian must update the Court regarding the care and well-being of the Incapacitated Person over whom they have guardianship within the first sixty (60) days of the appointment and then every year thereafter by filing this.
What is a "Guardian's Care Plan Report"?
(MPC 821)
Fun Fact: Permanent Guardians of Minors are required to file a form known as "Annual Report of Guardian of Minor" - (MPC 443)
For a minor's name to be changed, the Petitioner must give this to all parents and guardians of the minor to try to alert them of the Petitioner's intention to change the name of the minor.
What is notice?
The current Massachusetts Child Support Guidelines is from this year.
What is 2023?
A plaintiff's who want to sue a corporation should review this website in order to make sure they correctly name the Corporation in the Complaint.
What is the Massachusetts Secretary of State's Corporate Division Website?
Tenants may raise this "warranty" defense if the rental unit has bad conditions like mold, lack of heat, water, rats, or roaches.
What is the warranty of habitability?
Generally, Court Service Centers require this form to be completed and signed before assisting a Court User with forms to obtain a Guardianship of an Incapacitated Person who has an intellectual delay.
What is a Clinical Team Report?
This document issued by the Court serves as official proof that a name has been changed.
What is a Decree of Name Change?
This standard form is required for all probate and family court cases involving children to inform the Court if there are other cases in any other venue involving the child or children.
What is the Affidavit Disclosing Care or Custody Proceedings (Form OCAJ-1)?
In Massachusetts, small claims cases involve disputes under this dollar amount.
What is $7,000?
If a landlord wrongfully withholds a security deposit and interest beyond 30 days, tenants can pursue legal action, potentially recovering the interest, attorney's fees, court costs and up to this amount of the security deposit.
What is triple (or treble) the amount of the security deposit?
Johnny is a college graduate who has recently been diagnosed with schizophrenia at age 20 causing him to be disorganized and unable to manage many aspects of his life like bill paying and maintaining a stable place to live; This completed, signed form would be required by the Court Service Centers before assisting with the drafting a Petition for Guardianship of an Incapacitated Person.
What is a Medical Certificate?
Other than the legal parents, Plaintiff will name and serve these two Defendants in a Correction of Birth Certificate case.
What are:
1. the Registrar for the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics; and
2. the Clerk for the City/Town Hall of the place of birth.
This standing order guides how a party may ask for reconsideration under Mass Rules of Domestic Relations Procedure Rules 52, 59, and 60.
What is Probate and Family Court Standing Order 2-99?
A guardian of an Incapacitated Person who needs to get initial Court approval for treatment of the IP with anti-psychotic medication needs to submit the following two MPC forms in addition to Proposed Findings of Facts and Conclusions of Law?
Clinician's Affidavit as to Competency and Treatment (MPC 800) and
a (Proposed) Treatment Plan (MPC 825)
Provided there there have been no other fault evictions, this is the time one must wait after the conclusion of a fault-ground eviction case before petitioning to seal.
What is 7 years?
Johnny is the respondent subject of a guardianship of incapacitated person. He has no real estate and only $20 to his name in a savings account. Johnny's sister, Clara, the Petitioner will ask the Court to approve this type of bond.
What is a bond without sureties?
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This kind of pleading to settle an estate is what Deidra Decedent's mother filed when Deidra died in the gorgeous mansion by the sea held in an irrevocable trust, with a $10,000 savings account in her own name, and her $30 Million dollar Rolls-Royce La Rose Noire Droptail.
What is a Voluntary Administration?