Chin v. Merriot

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• interpreting the plain language of a codified section of Massachusetts’s alimony reform act together with language in the act’s uncodified sections, which explained the Legislature’s intent that certain portions of the act should be applied prospectively
• \These provisions reflect the Legislature's intent that the act apply prospectively except as to 'durational limits' \
• “We will not ‘read into the statute a provision which the Legislature did not see fit to put there’ ” [citation omitted]
• \uncodified provisions of an act express the Legislature's view on some aspect of its operation\
• \we look first to the plain language of the provision at issue to ascertain the intent of the Legislature\
• we do not read into statutes provisions that Legislature did not see fit to include

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