HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 4092        FILED ON: 3/20/2009

HOUSE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 3998

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act relative to the definition of homestead..

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
 

Section 1 of chapter 188 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2006 Official Edition, is hereby amended by inserting after the word “home” in line 3 the following words:-  or property held in trust for the benefit of a settler who also has the property as the settlor’s principal residence.