Massachusetts § 17 Disability of husband or wife provisions; partition; joinder of husband or wife of ward with guardian or conservator

Massachusetts Statutes

§ 17 — Disability of husband or wife provisions; partition; joinder of husband or wife of ward with guardian or conservator

Massachusetts § 17

Part IIREAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS

Title IIIDOMESTIC RELATIONS

Ch. 209HUSBAND AND WIFE

This text of Massachusetts § 17 (Disability of husband or wife provisions; partition; joinder of husband or wife of ward with guardian or conservator) is published on Counsel Stack Legal Research, covering Massachusetts primary law. Counsel Stack provides free access to over 12 million legal documents including statutes, case law, regulations, and constitutions.

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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209, § 17 (2026).

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Section 17. The wife of a man under guardianship or conservatorship may join with his guardian or conservator, and the guardian or conservator of a woman may join with her husband, in making partition of her real estate which is held in joint tenancy or in common, and they may make any release or other conveyance necessary or proper therefor, as the parties might do if neither of them were under legal disability.

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Section 17. The wife of a man under guardianship or conservatorship may join with his guardian or conservator, and the guardian or conservator of a woman may join with her husband, in making partition of her real estate which is held in joint tenancy or in common, and they may make any release or other conveyance necessary or proper therefor, as the parties might do if neither of them were under legal disability.

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