2010 Massachusetts Code
PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS
TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
CHAPTER 190 DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION OF REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY
Section 5 Rights of persons born out of wedlock

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 7. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

Section 5. A person born out of wedlock is heir of his mother and of any person from whom his mother might have inherited, if living, and the descendents of a person born out of wedlock shall represent such person and take, by descent, any estate which such person would have taken, if living.