Legal Guides

The proxy is the document that works. The living will is not binding in Massachusetts, and neither one will stop an ambulance crew from resuscitating you.

Massachusetts has no statutory form and never adopted the Uniform Act. What actually makes a power durable, why springing powers fail in practice, and the bank objection that is legally baseless.

Two kinds of protective order, and choosing wrong costs weeks. Both are free. And the definition of abuse gained a fourth prong in 2024 that most guides have not caught up with.

Whether your sick time is paid comes down to one number, and the way employers count to eleven is broader than most of them realize.

The rule flipped on November 25, 2025. Publication is no longer the default and your file is sealed automatically, which most guides still get wrong.

UI Online is gone, the call center is closed Fridays, and if you were fired your employer has to prove you should be disqualified. What the law actually says about Massachusetts unemployment.

The measure raises no taxes and polls at 67 percent. Its final subsection lets the Legislature decline to fund it, and supporters confirmed at a hearing that this was the intent.

Question 2 has the softest support on the ballot, and the poll that measured it described a bar advocate pay raise the measure does not contain. Bar advocates are not covered at all.

Massachusetts is the only state where all three branches claim exemption from the public records law. The question is not whether Question 1 passes. It is what the policy-development exemption swallows.

After a man died on the third rail at Forest Hills, a question people ask after every serious injury on the T. The answer involves a notice requirement that ends more cases than any argument about fault.