SENATE DOCKET, NO. 2695        FILED ON: 7/16/2010

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 2548

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Ten

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An Act authorizing the transfer of supplementary proceedings when the judgment debtor moves.

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

Section 14 of chapter 224 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2008 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

If, after an application for supplementary process has been filed under this chapter, the judgment debtor moves out of the judicial district in which the proceedings were brought, the court may, on request of the judgment creditor, transfer the proceedings to the division of the court in the judicial district to which the judgment debtor has moved.  If the court orders such transfer, the docket entries and the original papers shall be forwarded to said court without payment of an entry fee and the proceedings shall continue in that court as though originally entered in that court.  An order made by the court in the district from which the debtor has moved shall remain in effect unless the court in the district to which the debtor has moved orders otherwise.