Maine Revised Statutes

Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 14, § 2608 (2026)

Corporation as trustee; answer and disclosure

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Except as provided in section 2608-A, all domestic corporations and all foreign or alien companies or corporations established by the laws of any other state or country and having a place of business or doing business within this State may be summoned as trustees, and trustee summonses may be served on them as other process is served on any such companies or corporations. They may answer by attorney or agent and make disclosures, which must be signed and sworn to by an attorney or agent or another person upon whom legal service of the summons may be made. The same proceedings must thereupon be had throughout except necessary changes in form, as in other cases of foreign attachment. [PL 2003, c. 149, §5 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 2003, c. 149, §5 (AMD).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 7 cases (1 in the last 5 years), 1973–2021 · leading case: Sanders v. Sanders, 1998 ME 100 (Me. 1998).

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Sanders v. Sanders, 1998 ME 100 (Me. 1998). “14 M.R.S.A § 2608 (1980). Herbert acknowledges in his brief that Provident does do business in Maine and Provident was successfully served through the Superintendent of Insurance.”

Loyal Erectors, Inc. v. Hamilton & Son, Inc., 312 A.2d 748 (Me. 1973). “In the Court below, the principal defendant (Hamilton), by motion properly served on the plaintiff, sought the discharge of Ford as trustee, on the ground that the principal defendant’s credits with Ford at the time of service of the trustee process were contingent claims only…”

R.C. Moore, Inc. v. Les-Care Kitchens, Inc., 2007 ME 138 (Me. 2007). “14 M.R.S. § 2608 (2006). Because trustee process is ancillary to an underlying action, Wachovia’s attack on subject matter jurisdiction relates to the underlying contract action between R.”

Land Inv., Inc. v. Murphy, 384 A.2d 454 (Me. 1978). “, and 14 M.R.S.A. § 2608 (1964), imposes the obligation of disclosure upon the trustee in order to put upon the record those facts “upon which the liability of the trustee depends in reference to the business relations with the principal defendant.”

Sea Salt LLC v. Bellerose (D. Me. 2020). · cites it 2× “4B(c); 14 M.R.S. § 2608. (Attachments, ECF Nos. 219-2, 219-6.”

Sea Salt LLC v. Td Bank Na (D. Me. 2021). · cites it 2× “4B(c); 14 M.R.S. § 2608. (Summons, ECF No. 56.) Plaintiff filed a First Amended Complaint on June 30, 2020, in which Plaintiff added, among others, Coinbase as a defendant.”

Sea Salt LLC v. Td Bank Na (D. Me. 2020). “2614, Coinbase failed to answer timely the 2020 trustee summons and, therefore, “must” be defaulted for failing to timely submit a disclosure. (Motion, ECF No. 81.) This recommended decision does not address Plaintiff’s pending motion for entry of default.”

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