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Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 261, § 27G (2026)

Payment procedure; public record; report of expenditures

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Section 27G. The clerk shall receive from any indigent party or his attorney all bills and vouchers for any document, service or object rendered to said party for which an order for payment by the commonwealth has been issued, and shall transmit said bills and vouchers and an attested copy of said order to the office of the court administrator, who shall make prompt payment thereon.

The office of the court administrator shall keep a record of all payments or waivers made pursuant to this section and of all repayments made pursuant to section twenty-seven E, including therein the name of the party, his attorney if any, the names and addresses of the person or persons to whom payment is made, the dates each was rendered to the party and the charge for each, and the dates payment was made by the office of the court administrator. This record shall be a public record.

The office of the court administrator shall on or before December first of each year make a written report to the general court indicating the amounts and purposes of all expenditures under sections twenty-seven A to twenty-seven G, inclusive, and making such recommendations for change in the law as he deems necessary.

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2 cases, 1980–2013 · leading case: Faircloth v. DiLillo, 466 Mass. 120 (2013).
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Faircloth v. DiLillo, 466 Mass. 120 (2013). “G. L. c. 261, § 27G. Yet, a party’s representation by an attorney, including an agreement by that attorney to advance or pay court costs or expenses of litigation, is not relevant to whether a party is indigent under § 27A or to whether an indigent party is entitled to waiver or…”
Commonwealth v. Bolduc, 411 N.E.2d 483 (Mass. App. Ct. 1980). “13 Nor does there appear to have been any consideration of any of the other factors enumerated in the Lockley case (381 Mass, at 161, 163) which must be weighed by a judge before he rules on a motion under G. L. c. 261, § 27G. The Commonwealth presented a strong case of…”
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