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.
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
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
