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Page 10 2 of 15 DOCUMENTS ANNOTATED LAWS OF MASSACHUSETTS Copyright © 2013 Matthew Bender & Company, Inc., a member of the LexisNexis Group All rights reserved *** Current through Acts 464 of the 2012 Legislative Session *** PART II REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS TITLE III DOMESTIC RELATIONS Chapter 209A Abuse Prevention GO TO MASSACHUSETTS CODE ARCHIVE DIRECTORY ALM GL ch. 209A, § 2 (2012) § 2. Venue. Proceedings under this chapter shall be filed, heard and determined in the superior court department or the Boston municipal court department or respective divisions of the probate and family or district court departments having venue over the plaintiff's residence. If the plaintiff has left a residence or household to avoid abuse, such plaintiff shall have the option of commencing an action in the court having venue over such prior residence or household, or in the court having venue over the present residence or household. HISTORY: 1978, 447, § 2; 1983, 678, § 3. NOTES: Editorial Note The 1983 amendment rewrote this section, inserting the Boston municipal and family court departments, and adding language further specifying venue in the case where a plaintiff has left a residence to avoid abuse. Cross References Venue, generally, ALM GL c 223, §§ 1-15. Jurisprudence 24 Am Jur 2d, Divorce & Separation §§ 265-268. Annotations Validity and application of statute allowing endangered child to be temporarily removed from parental custody. 38 ALR4th 756.
ALM GL ch. 209A, § 2 Page 11 Treatise References Blumenson, Fisher, & Kanstroom, Massachusetts Criminal Practice (Michie) § 50. Brisk, Hoag, MacLaughin-Barck, Massachusetts Elder Law (Michie) §§ 1.7, 2.4. Cross, Fleischner, Elder, Guardianship and Conservatorship in Massachusetts, 2d Ed. (Michie) § 9.02. Harvey, Moriarty, Bryant, Massachusetts Domestic Relations, 2d Ed. (Michie) §§ 4.10, 9.05, 51:2, Form 208. Massachusetts Divorce Law Practice Manual § 11.2.3, Abuse Prevention. Law Reviews Buel, Violence Against Women: Effective Assistance of Counsel for Battered Women Defendants: A Normative Construct. 26 Harv Women's LJ 217. Lininger, A Better Way to Disarm Batterers. 54 Hastings LJ 525 (March, 2003). Long, Commonwealth v. Gonsalves: Erroneously Expanding the Concept of Police Interrogation Set Forth in Crawford v. Washington to Include Investigatory Police Interrogations. 33 N.E. J. on Crim. & Civ. Con. 171 (Winter, 2007). Gresens, Denying Choice of Forum: An Interference by the Massachusetts Trial Court with Domestic Violence Victims' Rights and Safety. 43 Suffolk U. L. Rev. 293 (2010). Buel and Drew, Do Ask and Do Tell: Rethinking the Lawyer's Duty to Warn in Domestic Violence Cases. 75 U. Cin. L. Rev. 447 (Winter, 2006). Web References ABA Domestic Violence Section, see www.abanet.org/domviol/home.html ABA Family Law Section, see www.abanet.org/family/home.html Department of Social Services, see www.state.ma.us/dss/ Legal Information Institute's Divorce Law Overview, see www.law.cornell.edu/topics/divorce.html Legal Information Institute's Marriage Law Overview, see www.law.cornell.edu/topics/marriage.html Probate and Family Court, see www.state.ma.us/courts/courtsandjudges/courts/probateandfamilycourt/ CASE NOTES Appellate Division of District Court Department lacks subject matter jurisdiction to review ALM GL c 209A cases in District Courts. Burrill v. Burrill (1993) 1993 Mass App Div 178, 1993 Mass App Div LEXIS 63. Trial court impermissibly prevented plaintiff from calling defendant as a witness at the hearing on an application for a ALM GL c 209A abuse prevention order because defendant never asserted a privilege not to testify, and trial court did not inquire if defendant chose to do so; it was not the trial court's prerogative to make that choice for him. S.T. v.
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