Massachusetts spent years debating whether to follow California and void employee noncompetes outright. It landed somewhere else: noncompetes remain enforceable here, but only if the employer followed a specific set of procedural and substantive rules laid down by the Massachusetts…
Massachusetts protects the equity in a principal residence from most creditors. Every homeowner gets some of that protection automatically, without doing anything. Recording a written declaration at the registry of deeds increases it by a very large multiple, costs a…
Almost every state has a living will statute — a law that gives a signed declaration about end-of-life treatment direct legal force, so that a physician presented with it is bound by what it says. Massachusetts does not. The legislature…
Ask most people whether the estate tax applies to them and they will say no, correctly, about the federal one. The federal exemption is high enough that it reaches a very small fraction of estates. Massachusetts is a different conversation…
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