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2012 Massachusetts General Laws
PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS(Chapters 183 through 210)
TITLE II DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS
CHAPTER 193 APPOINTMENT OF ADMINISTRATORS
- Section 1 Persons entitled to administer intestate's estate
- Section 2 Next of kin as administrators; consent
- Section 3 Estates liable to income or succession tax; application of commissioner of revenue for administration
- Section 4 Limitations upon time of granting of administration
- Section 5 Estate not administered within fifty years
- Section 6 Revocation of letters of administration by proof of will
- Section 7 Persons entitled to administer with will annexed
- Section 7A Temporary administrators
- Section 8 Administration during minority of named executor
- Section 9 Persons entitled to continue administration
- Section 10 Appointment and discharge of special administrators
- Section 11 Powers and duties of special administrators
- Section 12 Additional powers and duties
- Section 13 Advancements; payment despite appeal
- Section 14 Claims payable by special administrator
- Section 15 Actions by creditors; stay of proceedings pending appointment of executor or administrator; liability
- Section 16 Effect of grant of letters testamentary or of administration
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