Serves Cumberland and Franklin counties from South Portland and Kingfield. Its probate team handles estate and trust administration, probate litigation over contested wills, guardianships and conservatorships, and MaineCare nursing home planning. The firm has practiced in the Greater Portland area for over 40 years.
Falmouth is in Cumberland County.
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Serves Cumberland County from Portland's Old Port. Handles probate, estate and trust administration, probate litigation, and guardianships, conservatorships, and other protective arrangements, along with wills and special needs planning. Founded in 2014; its founder wrote the guardianship and conservatorship chapter of "A Practical Guide to Probate in Maine."
Serves clients in probate courts throughout Maine from Marginal Way in Portland. Its estate planning and administration team represents personal representatives, trustees, and beneficiaries in administering estates and trusts, handles guardianships and conservatorships, and with the firm's trial group represents clients in contested probate, will, and trust matters. Founded in 1965.
Represents clients across Maine from Portland, and meets clients in Norway and Rockland by arrangement. Probates estates, administers trusts, advises on estate, gift and fiduciary income tax, and represents parties in probate and trust litigation and in guardianship and conservatorship matters. Founded in 1992 as Maine's first boutique trusts and estates firm.
An estate and tax law firm in Portland, Cumberland County, founded in 1995. Administers estates and trusts, handles every tax filing tied to an administration, represents trustees or beneficiaries, and handles guardianships, conservatorships, and difficult administrations before the Maine Probate Court. The team includes a CPA.
Serves Cumberland County from Portland and handles ancillary administration proceedings throughout Maine for non-resident estates. Probates wills and administers estates, administers trusts, advises fiduciaries and beneficiaries on their duties and rights, handles guardianships, conservatorships, and probate litigation, and assists with transfers of non-probate assets.
Probate in Cumberland County
Probate Court Record
Cumberland County Probate Court
Cumberland County
Phone
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Monday-Friday 8:30 AM-noon and 1:00 PM-4:00 PM
Office
142 Federal Street, Suite 125, Portland, ME 04101
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