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If a spouse doesn't respond to a divorce petition in Massachusetts, the court may grant a default judgment. This means the court presumes the non-responding spouse agrees to the terms proposed by the petitioning spouse, which could include property division, child custody, and spousal support.
Rule 55(a) authorizes the entry of default when the opposing party has "failed to plead or otherwise defend". The language includes a defendant's complete failure to file any papers at all, as well as his failure, after filing an appearance, to file an answer.
A motion for summary judgment must be accompanied by a statement of the material facts as to which the moving party contends there is no genuine issue to be tried, set forth in consecutively numbered paragraphs, with page or paragraph references to supporting pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, ...
All civil motions shall be governed, where applicable, by Superior Court Rules 9A through 9E. Any criminal motion must be in writing and filed before being placed upon a list for hearing, unless otherwise ordered by the court, or otherwise provided for under Superior Court Rule 61.
There are four major steps to collecting after a Massachusetts court judgment: Get a writ of execution. Locate the debtor's assets. Direct a deputy sheriff to seize the debtor's non-exempt assets. Have the sheriff sell off the debtor's non-exempt assets to satisfy the debt.
Case citations generally includes the case name, followed by the reporter volume, the reporter abbreviation, the first page of the case, the specific page for the cited material, and the court abbreviation and date in parentheses (unless the court name is obvious from the reporter abbreviation).
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC)
Citing Massachusetts Court Decisions Name v. Name, Volume Reporter abbreviation Page (Court abbreviation Year). Reporter Abbreviation refers to Northeastern Reporter: N.E. or N.E. 2d. The citation appears after Cite as on the top of the page of Massachusetts Decisions.
A citation could come in one of three forms: General Laws of Massachusetts (M.G.L.) citation (e.g., 276 M.G.L. Session Law published in the Acts and Resolves citation (e.g., 1995 Mass. House of Representatives or Senate Bill Number citation (e.g., 1995 HB 543 House Bill or 2006 SB 445 Senate Bill)
Citing Massachusetts Court Decisions Name v. Name, Volume Reporter abbreviation Page (Court abbreviation Year). Reporter Abbreviation refers to Northeastern Reporter: N.E. or N.E. 2d. The citation appears after Cite as on the top of the page of Massachusetts Decisions.