2021 Massachusetts General Laws
Part II - Real and Personal Property and Domestic Relations
Title III - Domestic Relations
Chapter 209 - Husband and Wife
Section 32d - Judgment for Separate Support; Conveyance of Real Property; Enforcement; Vesting of Title
Section 32D. Whenever in any proceeding under section thirty-two a judgment shall be entered directing that a deed, conveyance or release of certain real estate, or interest therein, be made, such judgment shall create an equitable right to its enforcement subject to the provision for recording of notice in section fifteen of chapter one hundred and eighty-four, in the party entitled thereto by the judgment, and if the judgment has not been complied with within three months after said judgment has been entered and a certified copy of said judgment is recorded or registered in the manner provided by section forty-four of chapter one hundred and eighty-three, then the judgment itself shall operate to vest title to the real estate or interest therein in the party entitled thereto by the judgment as fully and completely as if such deed, conveyance or release had been duly executed by the party directed to make it, and so recorded.
