2017 Massachusetts General Laws
PART I ADMINISTRATION OF THE GOVERNMENT
TITLE XXII CORPORATIONS
Chapter 175 INSURANCE
Section 135 Group life policies; exemption from attachment; exception

Universal Citation: MA Gen L ch 175 § 135 (2017)

Section 135. No such policy, or the proceeds thereof when paid to any employee or employees thereunder, or to their beneficiaries, shall be liable to attachment, trustee process or other process, or to be seized, taken, appropriated or applied by any legal or equitable process or operation of law to pay any debt or liabilities of such employee or his beneficiary or any other person having right thereunder either before or after payment; nor shall the proceeds thereof, when not made payable to any beneficiary, constitute a part of the estate of the employee for the payment of his debts.

Nothing in this section shall prevent an employee's benefits from being attached, seized, taken, appropriated, assigned, or applied by any legal or equitable process or operation of law to satisfy a support order under chapter two hundred and eight, two hundred and nine, or two hundred and seventy-three.

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