Maine Revised Statutes

Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 14, § 2603 (2026)

Effect of service on trustee; service on partnership

✓ current as of May 2026

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Service on the trustee binds all goods, effects or credits of the principal defendant entrusted to and deposited in the trustee's possession, to respond to the final judgment in the action, as when attached by ordinary process if process describing the principal defendant with reasonable certainty is received at a time and in a manner that affords the trustee a reasonable opportunity to act on it. When a partnership is made a trustee on trustee process, service upon one member of the firm is a sufficient attachment of the property of the principal defendant in the possession of the firm, if that service is made at any place of business of the firm or, if that service is made elsewhere, that legal service is afterward made upon the other members of the firm. [PL 2003, c. 149, §3 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 2003, c. 149, §3 (AMD).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 10 cases (2 in the last 5 years), 1986–2021 · leading case: In Re Maylin, 155 B.R. 605 (Bankr. D. Me. 1993).

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In Re Maylin, 155 B.R. 605 (Bankr. D. Me. 1993). “§ 2614. In any event, the parties do not dispute that Lynn Maylin presently holds the funds owing Maylin, awaiting resolution of the pending proceedings so that she may pay them over to the proper party.”

R.C. Moore, Inc. v. Les-Care Kitchens, Inc., 2007 ME 138 (Me. 2007). · cites it 3× “Pursuant to 14 M.R.S. § 2603 (2006), a trustee is liable only for the amount of “all goods, effects or credits of the principal defendant .”

Coombs v. Gov't Employees Ins., 534 A.2d 676 (Me. 1987). “14 M.R.S.A. § 2603 (1980) provides in part that “[sjervice on the trustee binds all goods, effects or credits of the principal defendant entrusted to and deposited in his possession .”

Coombs v. Russell, 511 A.2d 448 (Me. 1986). “Furthermore, Rule 4B(c) makes clear that trustee process must be served within thirty days after the date of the order approving the attachment.”

Sea Salt LLC v. Td Bank Na (D. Me. 2021). · cites it 3× “at 15 (quoting 14 M.R.S. § 2603) (emphasis in Pl.’s Partial Obj.”

Sea Salt LLC v. Td Bank Na (D. Me. 2020). · cites it 2× “” 14 M.R.S. § 2603. The 2018 trustee summons does not mention BIG, and particularly not with “reasonable certainty.”

Sea Salt LLC v. Bellerose (D. Me. 2020). “See 14 M.R.S. § 2603 (describing the effect of service on a trustee “if process describing the principal defendant with reasonable certainty is received at a time and in a manner that affords the trustee a reasonable opportunity to act on it”).”

Sea Salt LLC v. Td Bank Na (D. Me. 2021). “” 14 M.R.S. § 2603. Unless a court directs otherwise, a trustee is then required to respond and “serve that trustee’s disclosure under oath within twenty days after the service of the trustee summons upon that trustee.”

Linder v. Barry (Me. Super. Ct 2002). “See 14 M.R.S.A. § 2603. . However, Plaintiff, on information and belief, alleges that monies due and owing Defendant Glovill that could potentially be used to satisfy the attachment she currently holds against Defendants Barry, Destra, C.”

Pine State Trading Co. v. Winn Gen. Store (Me. Super. Ct 2008). “14 M.R.S.A. § 2603. The Credit Union argues that the amount to be held by the trustee is determined as of the time process is served if that process is received at a time and in a manner that affords the trustee a reasonable opportunity to act on it.”

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