100% to your parents
100% equally split among your children
Spouse but no surviving descendants or parents
100% to your spouse
100% to your spouse
Spouse and parents, but no descendants
Spouse inherits first $200,000, plus ¾ of the balance, the remainder goes to your parents
Descendants who are all surviving spouse’s descendants, but said spouse has one or more surviving descendants who are not your descendants OR one or more of your descendants are not descendants of surviving spouse.
Spouse inherits first $100,000, plus ½ of balance, remainder split equally among your children.
If you die intestate, you effectively give up the right to decide what happens to your estate assets. You also give up the right to decide who oversees the probate of your estate. If these decisions matter to you, the only way to ensure that you get to make them is to make sure you do not die intestate.
Massachusetts SJC Rules That Employers May Hold Employees Liable for Violating Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices Law Wednesday, April 21, 2021
On April 9, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that an employee may be liable to his or her employer under the Commonwealth’s unfair and deceptive trade practices statute which authorizes an award of double or treble damages for willful violations, as well as costs and attorneys’ fees for actions that the employee engaged in during the course of his or her employment. In
et al., No. SJC-12948, the Commonwealth’s highest court reversed a trial court’s determination that a jury could not consider actions that the defendant-employees had undertaken during their employment with the plaintiff in evaluating whether they had committed unfair or deceptive trade practices in violation of the statute by misappropriating their former employer’s research and administrative files. The decision provides em
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On April 9, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC)
ruled that an employee may be liable to his or her employer under
the Commonwealth s unfair and deceptive trade practices
statute-which authorizes an award of double or treble damages for
willful violations, as well as costs and attorneys fees-for
actions that the employee engaged in during the course of his or
her employment. In
et
al., No. SJC-12948, the Commonwealth s highest court
reversed a trial court s determination that a jury could not
consider actions that the defendant-employees had undertaken during
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On April 9, 2021, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that an employee may be liable to his or her employer under the Commonwealth’s unfair and deceptive trade practices statute which authorizes an award of double or treble damages for willful violations, as well as costs and attorneys’ fees for actions that the employee engaged in during the course of his or her employment. In
et al., No. SJC-12948, the Commonwealth’s highest court reversed a trial court’s determination that a jury could not consider actions that the defendant-employees had undertaken during their employment with the plaintiff in evaluating whether they had committed unfair or deceptive trade practices in violation of the statute by misappropriating their former employer’s research and administrative files. The decision provides employers with a significant additional deterrent to, and remedy for, their employees’ theft of p