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Massachusetts Family Law Sourcebook & Citator

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  • Product Number: 1910263EBK
  • Publication Date: 4/18/2025
  • Edition: 2025 Edition
  • Copyright: © 2025 MCLE, Inc.
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    All of the resources you need daily in your family law practice in one practical publication—state and federal statutes, regulations, court rules, and procedures. Case annotations on important points of law immediately follow statutory text, so that you can instantly see how the courts have interpreted a particular statute. Concise and practical summaries of family law cases decided by the Massachusetts Appeals Court and Supreme Judicial Court in the past year are organized chronologically in the case digest. An archive of previously published case digests dating back to 1975 is also included as an added feature.

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    • Update: April 2025

      Dear Subscriber:

      Thank you for updating your reference library with the 2025 edition of the Massachusetts Family Law Sourcebook & Citator .This product combines the latest in sourcebook materials— statutes, regulations, and administrative resources—with a case digest summarizing decisions from the Massachusetts appellate courts. The book's entire contents are downloadable, along with more than four decades of collected decision abstracts, for enhanced access and searchability. decades of collected decision abstracts, for enhanced access and searchability.

      Highlights from the updates for 2025 include

      • a new requirement for assessment of animals kept in foster or preadoptive homes;
      • an amendment to provisions mandating reports of abuse or neglect;
      • a new provision on the use of educational diversion programs for children alleged to be delinquent;
      • an increase in the amount of the homestead exemption set forth in Chapter 188;
      • an amendment to the definitions of "abuse" and "coercive control" in Chapter 209A;
      • twenty new sections along with other amendments in Chapter 209C (Nonmarital Children and Parentage of Children);
      • amendments to provisions on firearms licensing, extreme risk protection orders, and harassment prevention orders; and
      • twenty-one new statutory annotations addressing recent developments in Massachusetts family law.

      The case digest for this edition includes summaries of sixteen recent decisions from the Massachusetts appellate courts. These decisions address, among other topics, an agreement for access to a family pet following divorce; termination of parental rights; sibling visitation rights; funds considered as both income for alimony and an asset of the marital estate (double dipping); abuse prevention orders; the right to counsel in care and protection proceedings; the Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children; durational limits on alimony; consideration of a couple's regular pattern of savings in awarding alimony; determinations of custody of nonmarital children in the Probate and Family Court; involuntary commitments under G.L. c. 123, ยง 35; application of the Massachusetts Principal and Income Act; and remedies for engaged couples who decide not to go through with their wedding plans.

      Thank you for your continued support as we at MCLE strive to bring you the latest solutions for your practice.

      Cordially,

      John M. Lawlor, Esq., MCLE Publications Attorney

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    Massachusetts Probate and Family Court General Information and Filing Fees

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    Practice Guides

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    Selected Massachusetts Laws and Regulations

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    Selected Provisions of the Internal Revenue Code and Treasury Regulations

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    Other Federal Laws and Regulations

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    Massachusetts Rules of Domestic Relations Procedure

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    Court Rules and Guidelines

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    Child Support Guidelines

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    Case Digest

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    Appendix

    Family Law Case Digest 1975–2024

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  • Editors & Authors

    Editor(s)

    Gina J. Calabro, Esq., The Law Office of Gina J. Calabro, LLC, Wellesley

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    Pauline Quirion, Esq., Greater Boston Legal Services, CAMBRIDGE
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