The Trial Court law librarians create these guides to Massachusetts legal topics. Here you will find what you need to get started in your legal research on a topic - laws, regulations, cases, and websites.
Topics A-C
A
C
- Capital punishment
- Carbon monoxide
- Caregivers
- Casinos
- Cell phone searches
- Change of name
- Chickens
- Child abuse and neglect
- Child custody and parenting time
- Child labor
- Child sexual abuse
- Child support
- Child support, Changing
- Child support over 18
- Children's health care
- Citations, reading & writing
- Civil procedure
- Clemency
- Collective bargaining
- Complaint drafting
- Conflict of interest
- Conservatorship
- Consumer protection
- Contraception
- Copyright
- CORI
- Corporations
- Court system
- COVID-19
- Credit and banking
- Cremation
- Criminal law
- Criminal records
- Cyberbullying
Topics D-F
D
E
- Education
- Elder law
- Elections
- Electronic discovery
- Emancipation of minors
- Eminent domain
- Emotional distress
- Employee privacy
- Employee uniforms
- Employment
- Employment leave
- Employment termination
- Engagement rings
- Estate planning
- Estate taxation
- Ethics
- Eviction
- Evidence, testimonial and non-testimonial
- Eyewitnesses
Topics G-I
G
H
Topics J-M
L
Topics N-Q
P
- Paid family and medical leave
- Pardons and commutations
- Parental leave
- Parole
- Paternity
- Paternity leave
- Police, recording
- Pornography
- Potholes and road defects
- Prescription drugs
- Prevailing wage
- Privacy
- Pro se litigants
- Probate of estates
- Professional licensing
- Property taxes
- Public benefits
- Public housing
- Public records
Topics R-T
R
S
- Same-sex marriage
- Scalping
- Security deposits
- Self-represented litigant
- Sentencing
- Service animals
- Sex
- Sex offenders
- Sexting
- Sexual abuse of children
- Sexual harassment
- Sharing economy
- Shopping and returns
- Shoreline access
- Sick time
- Slander
- SLAPP
- Small business
- Small claims
- Small necessities leave
- Smoking
- Snow and ice
- Spam
- Special education
- Speed limits
- Stalking
- Statutes of limitations in civil sexual abuse cases
- Stem cell research
- Streets
- Student discipline
- Student records
- Subpoenas
- Surrogate parenting