Current through Chapter 244 of the 2024 Legislative Session
Section 190B:2-102 - Share of spouseThe intestate share of a decedent's surviving spouse is:
(1) the entire intestate estate if:(i) no descendant or parent of the decedent survives the decedent; or (ii) all of the decedent's surviving descendants are also descendants of the surviving spouse and there is no other descendant of the surviving spouse who survives the decedent; (2) the first $200,000, plus 3/4 of any balance of the intestate estate, if no descendant of the decedent survives the decedent, but a parent of the decedent survives the decedent; (3) the first $100,000 plus 1/2 of any balance of the intestate estate, if all of the decedent's surviving descendants are also descendants of the surviving spouse and the surviving spouse has 1 or more surviving descendants who are not descendants of the decedent; (4) the first $100,000 plus 1/2 of any balance of the intestate estate, if 1 or more of the decedent's surviving descendants are not descendants of the surviving spouse. Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 190B, § 2-102
Added by Acts 2008, c. 521,§ 9, eff. 7/1/2011.