Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 190B § 1-102 : REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS — DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS — MASSACHUSETTS UNIFORM PROBATE CODE — GENERAL PROVISIONS, DEFINITIONS AND PROBATE JURISDICTION OF COURT — SHORT TITLE, CONSTRUCTION, GENERAL PROVISIONS —102 - Purposes; rule of construction

(a) This chapter shall be liberally construed and applied to promote its underlying purposes and policies.
(b) The underlying purposes and policies of this chapter are:
(1) to simplify and clarify the law concerning the affairs of decedents and missing persons;
(2) to discover and make effective the intent of a decedent in distribution of the decedent's property;
(3) to promote a speedy and efficient system for liquidating the estate of the decedent and making distribution to the decedent's successors;
(4) to facilitate use and enforcement of certain trusts; and
(5) to make uniform the law among the various jurisdictions.

Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 190B, § 1-102

Added by Acts 2008, c. 521,§ 9, eff. 7/1/2011.