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 196 ALLOWANCES TO WIDOWS AND CHILDREN, AND ADVANCEMENTS
Section 8 Jurisdiction to hear questions relating to advancements

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 15. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

Section 8. The probate court in which the estate of a deceased person is settled may hear and determine all questions of advancements arising relative to such estate, or such questions may be heard and determined upon a petition for partition; but if such question arises upon a petition for partition, the court may suspend proceedings until the question has been decided in the probate court in which the estate of the deceased is settled.