Chapter
NONMARITAL CHILDREN AND PARENTAGE OF CHILDREN
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 1— Declaration of purpose; definition; responsibility for support
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 1A— Definitions
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 2— Parentage; acknowledgment or adjudication; statistical information of parties; transmission to registrarr
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 3— Paternity and support actions; jurisdiction; enforcement of prior orders or judgments; juvenile court commitment proceedings; parents convicted of first degree murder
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 4— Venue; service
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 5— Persons entitled to maintain actions or execute voluntary acknowledgment of parentage; parties
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 6— Presumption of paternity; mandatory joinder
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 7— Representation in parentage actions; appointment of counsel; burden of proof
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 8— Judgment of parentage; age of parents; notice
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 9— Judgment or order for support; health insurance; financial statement; determination of amount; notice
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 10— Award of custody; criteria
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 11— Acknowledgment of parentage; approval; parental agreements regarding custody, support and visitation
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 12— Trial; exclusion of public
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 13— Inspection of documents; copies; segregation of records
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 14— Complaints brought prior to birth
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 15— Temporary orders; enforcement; information required to be given to petitioner; domestic violence record search
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 16— Competency to testify; refusal to testify; costs of tests; admissibility of evidence; failure of party to attend; testimony by telephone or affidavit
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 17— Genetic marker tests; affidavit; refusal to submit to test; costs
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 18— Judgments or orders of support; enforcement
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 19— Judgment or temporary order of support; enforcement
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 20— Modification of judgments; jurisdiction
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 21— Action to determine mother and child relationship
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 22— Proceedings barred under this chapter
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 23— Intermarriage of parents; jurisdiction
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 24— Forms
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 25— Adjudication of parentage of a child; commencement; governance; verified complaints; standing; temporary order of contact; de facto parent; third party right to visitation
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 26— Best interest of the child; parentage challenges and genetic testing; more than two parents; determination of custody, parenting time, visitation and child support
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 27— Application; venue; donor; assisted reproduction with the intent to be a parent; proceeding to adjudicate a spouse's parentage of a child born by assisted reproduction; consent; death of person who intends to be a parent; clinical or laboratory error; genetic testing; commencement of proceeding; final judgment; divorce
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28— Application of sections 28 to 28P; venue
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28A— Surrogacy agreements
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28B— Enforceability of surrogacy agreement
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28C— Surrogacy agreement; required terms; expenses; surrogate health and welfare decisions; termination of agreement; assignability of rights
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28D— Surrogacy agreement; marriage; divorce
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28E— Exclusive, continuing jurisdiction of court
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28F— Termination of surrogacy agreement; expenses; liability
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28G— Vesting of parental rights upon birth of child conceived by assisted reproduction; genetic testing; application
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28H— Death of intended parent before the transfer or implantation of a gamete or embryo
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28I— Judgment of parentage proceeding; order or judgment; parties; complaint; closed proceedings
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28J— Gestational surrogacy agreement; enforceability; remedies for breach; specific performance;
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28K— Validation of genetic surrogacy agreement; timing of order; termination
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28L— Termination of surrogacy agreement by intended parent or genetic surrogate; timing; expenses; liability
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28M— Birth of a child conceived by assisted reproduction under genetic surrogacy agreement; notice to court; clinical or laboratory error; genetic testing to determine the genetic parentage of the child
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28N— Genetic surrogacy agreement not validated under section 28K; enforceability; preponderance of the evidence ; adjudication of parentage; standing
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28O— Child conceived by assisted reproduction under a genetic surrogacy agreement; intended parents ;death of intended parent
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28P— Breach of genetic surrogacy agreement; remedies; specific performance
- Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 209C, § 28Q— Gender-affirming health care services of children; law of jurisdiction outside of commonwealth; custody, parenting time and visitation; abuse, neglect or maltreatment; consideration of the likely disruption or cessation of gender-affirming health care services in the alteration of custody, parenting time or visitation