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The Court also has general equity jurisdiction. The Probate and Family Courts of Massachusetts serve 14 counties: Barnstable, Berkshire, Bristol, Dukes, Essex, Franklin, Hampden, Hampshire, Middlesex, Nantucket, Norfolk, Plymouth, Suffolk, and Worcester. In addition to probate matters, the courts archive divorce and estate records, wills ...
In the court-house are kept the probate-office and registry of deeds for the county." [6] Alternately, historian Caleb Snow describes it in 1828 more favorably: "The Old Court House on the south side of Court-street, is a handsome building of brick, three stories high, and has on the roof an octagon cupola. On the lower floor are the offices of ...
The first departments moved into the space in January 1999. They were to include: the Suffolk Registry of Deeds, the Land Court, the Probate and Family Court, the Housing Court, and the Juvenile Court. [2]
The court has "exclusive jurisdiction over probate matters such as wills, trusts, guardianships, and conservatorships. The Court also has jurisdiction over family-related matters such as divorce, support, paternity establishment, family abuse protection, elderly abuse protection, disabled person's abuse protection, custody, and adoption." [2]
Felix D. Arroyo (born April 16, 1948) is an American retired politician. He held roles in the cabinet of the Mayor of Boston under Raymond Flynn; served on the Boston School Committee; was an at-large member of the Boston City Council; and was the Register of Probate for Suffolk County, Massachusetts, at the time of his retirement in 2023.
Maura A. Hennigan (born 1952) is an American politician who currently serves as the Clerk Magistrate of Suffolk County, Massachusetts, Superior Court Criminal/Business Division. [1] She is a former member of the Boston City Council and was a mayoral candidate in 2005. From 1987 to 1993, she was known as Maura Hennigan Casey.
The probate calendar was created by the Probate Registry, which was responsible for proving wills and administrations from 1858 following the enactment of the Court of Probate Act 1857. [1] It replaced a system of ecclesiastical courts.
A probate court (sometimes called a surrogate court) is a court that has competence in a jurisdiction to deal with matters of probate and the administration of estates. [1] In some jurisdictions, such courts may be referred to as orphans' courts [ 2 ] or courts of ordinary.