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PART II. REAL AND PERSONAL PROPERTY AND DOMESTIC RELATIONS

TITLE II. DESCENT AND DISTRIBUTION, WILLS, ESTATES OF DECEASED PERSONS AND ABSENTEES, GUARDIANSHIP, CONSERVATORSHIP AND TRUSTS

CHAPTER 201. GUARDIANS AND CONSERVATORS

GUARDIANS OF INSANE PERSONS AND SPENDTHRIFTS

Chapter 201: Section 10. Spendthrifts; petition to appoint guardian; recording; effect on contracts

Section 10. A copy of the petition, with the order of notice thereon, may be recorded in the registry of deeds for the county and district where any land of the alleged spendthrift is located; and if a guardian is appointed upon such petition, all contracts, except for necessaries or relative to land, and all gifts, sales or transfers of personal property made by the spendthrift after an order of notice upon the petition has been issued by the probate court, and all contracts relative to and sales and conveyances of land made by the spendthrift after such record in the registry of deeds for the county and district where the land lies, and before the termination of the guardianship, shall be void.