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Maine Revised Statutes

Me. Rev. Stat. tit. 14, § 6502 (2026)

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Persons entitled as provided in section 6501, and those in possession or having a right of entry for a term of years, as tenants in common, may commence an action for partition in the Superior Court or District Court held in the county where such estate is by a complaint, clearly describing it and stating whether it is a fee simple, for life or for years, and the proportion claimed by them, the names of the other tenants in common and their places of residence, if known, and whether any or all of them are unknown. [PL 1989, c. 392, §3 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1989, c. 392, §3 (AMD).

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 3 cases, 1981–2016 · leading case: Libby v. Lorrain, 430 A.2d 37 (Me. 1981).

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Libby v. Lorrain, 430 A.2d 37 (Me. 1981). “As the treatise writer has said, “our courts have held full jurisdiction in equity in cases of partition ever since 1857 concurrent and elective with the common law jurisdiction in the case of real estate by petition for partition given by [14 M.R.S.A. § 6502], even though the…”

Boyer v. Boyer, 1999 ME 128 (Me. 1999). “Also included within the Committee amendments, however, was a change in the language of 14 M.R.S.A. § 6502, the statutory in-kind partition section, to include the District Court as having concurrent jurisdiction with the Superior Court.”

Est. of Jeanne S. Reed, 2016 ME 90 (Me. 2016). “See 14 M.R.S. § 6502 (2015); 4 M.R.S. §§ 105(1), 152(5)(0)(2-A) (2015); Murphy v.”

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