About
Anastasia Welsh Perrino, Esq.
Anastasia Welsh Perrino is the Barnstable County Register of Probate. She was first elected to the position in 2008 and was re-elected to the position for two terms following her first election in November 2014 and in November of 2020. She plans to run for re-election. Prior to being elected as Register of Probate for Barnstable County, she served as an Assistant Register/Assistant Judicial Case Manager at the Barnstable Probate and Family Court for five years. Before her work at the Court, Register Perrino practiced law for fourteen years on the Cape primarily in estate planning and administration, real estate, guardianship, mental health, and elder law.
During her tenure as the Barnstable County Register of Probate, Register Perrino created a website specific to the Barnstable County Probate and Family Court. The website has been upgraded throughout her term in office. During the pandemic, Register Perrino established a Virtual Registry where the public can speak with a staff member face to face on Zoom Monday through Friday to obtain information about court forms, filing procedures, and scheduling a court hearing without having to make a special trip to court.
Register Perrino served on the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code Implementation Committee where she participated in the creation and implementation of probate forms and procedures for the implementation of the Massachusetts Uniform Probate Code in March 2019 which was a complete change to probate and administration law in Massachusetts.
She has served as Chair of a group of Registers and Attorneys who teach at the Massachusetts Bar Association Probate Law Conference for the past eleven years.
She has been a guest lecturer at many continuing legal education courses on Probate and Family Law as well as a guest speaker at many local organizations on Cape Cod.
Register Perrino was appointed to the Clerk's Ethics Advisory Committee by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court in 2010 and she currently serves as Chair of the Committee. In addition, she was appointed by Probate and Family Court Chief Justice John Casey to a working group of Judges and Registers who most recently collaborated to write an internal guide for Best Practices in the Probate and Family Court. The work of this group is ongoing in its work to improve how the Probate and Family Court does business.
Register Perrino currently serves as Vice President of the Massachusetts Register's Association.
She is a member of the Elder Justice Innovation Grant Committee which is working on a statewide office of oversight in the Administrative Office of the Probate and Family Court to protect adults aged 60 and older and adults with disabilities from abuse, financial exploitation, and neglect.
She currently serves as a member of the Kelley Foundation, Inc which provides scholarships to students and grants to non-profit organizations providing programs and services that support all areas of our Cape Cod Community.
She also currently serves as a member of the YMCA Cape Cod Head Start Committee which oversees the Head Start program which offers a quality childcare and educational program for income eligible families for children ages 3 to 4 years of age.
She has served as a member of the Cape Cod Task Force for Grandparents Raising Grandchildren and is a past President of the Barnstable County Bar Association.
Register Perrino received her undergraduate degree from Boston College and her law degree from Suffolk University Law School. Register Perrino has lived on Cape Cod in Barnstable County for virtually all her life. She graduated from Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School and has lived in the Town of Dennis for over thirty years with her husband. Her two adult sons who also graduated from Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School are now finished with college and are working in Boston.