"SJC: MassHealth can’t enforce lien against decedent’s home," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (Dec. 25). MBA members Patricia Keane Martin and Brian E. Barreira discussed a Supreme Judicial Court decision that MassHealth could not enforce a lien against a home owned by a Medicaid recipient at the time of her 2008 death in a residential facility.
"A ‘toast’ to Toys for Tots," Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly (Dec. 25). MBA Family Law Section Council member Kathleen A. O’Malley and MBA members Ann E. Dargie, Katherine M. Amato, Christopher J. Visser, Katie Manzi McDonough, Matthew W. Dziok and Briana I. Dawkins were pictured at the Hampden County Bar Association's recent "Toast to the Season" event, which collected toy donations for Toys for Tots.
"Clemency was a political third rail for decades. Healey and other governors are starting to embrace it." The Boston Globe (Dec. 24). MBA Clemency Task Force Co-Chair Pauline Quirion was quoted in an article detailing why recent pardons in Massachusetts reflect a national shift in how governors exercise their clemency powers.