Does Massachusetts Support Community Property?

Does Massachusetts Support Community Property? When people think of community property, I think that they think of California that it’s 50-50. I’m not a lawyer in California obviously but when people come and question me about that, I think that it’s what they think. No, we’re not a community property state. We rely upon an […]

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Treating an Inheritance Upon a Massachusetts Divorce

Treating an Inheritance Upon a Massachusetts Divorce An inheritance in divorce is divided by the court. They have the right to divide it 50-50 or they can allocate it differently. As a general matter, if an inheritance is fairly traceable to the person that received it, then the court would not divide that 50-50 especially […]

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