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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, § 3A (2012)
§ 3A. Information Required to be Given to Complainant.
Upon the filing of a complaint under this chapter, a complainant shall be informed that the proceedings hereunder are
civil in nature and that violations of orders issued hereunder are criminal in nature. Further, a complainant shall be
given information prepared by the appropriate district attorney's office that other criminal proceedings may be available
and such complainant shall be instructed by such district attorney's office relative to the procedures required to initiate
criminal proceedings including, but not limited to, a complaint for a violation of section forty-three of chapter two
hundred and sixty-five. Whenever possible, a complainant shall be provided with such information in the complainant's
native language.
HISTORY: 1992, 188, § 3.
NOTES: Treatise References
Brisk, Hoag, MacLaughin-Barck, Massachusetts Elder Law (Michie) §§ 1.7, 2.4.
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).
Web References