Massachusetts § 2 Causes for divorce; confinement for crime

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 2 — Causes for divorce; confinement for crime

Massachusetts § 2

Part IIREAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Title IIIDOMESTIC RELATIONS

Ch. 208DIVORCE

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Bluebook

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 208, § 2 (2026).

Text

Section 2. A divorce may also be adjudged if either party has been sentenced to confinement for life or for five years or more in a federal penal institution or in a penal or reformatory institution in this or any other state; and, after a divorce for such cause, no pardon granted to the party so sentenced shall restore such party to his or her conjugal rights.

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