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 198 INSOLVENT ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS
Section 18 Proved claims; distribution of assets

[Text of section effective until July 1, 2011. Repealed by 2008, 521, Sec. 19. See 2008, 521, Sec. 44.]

Section 18. After the expiration of the time allowed by section twelve, the probate court shall make a decree for the distribution of the estate among the creditors in accordance with this chapter. If, before making the decree, the court has notice of an appeal then claimed or pending, the decree may be suspended until the determination of the appeal, or a distribution may be ordered among the creditors whose debts are allowed, leaving an amount sufficient to pay to the claimant whose demand is disputed a proportion equal to that of the other creditors.