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On Tuesday, November 13, 2018, from 7:45 am – 9:30 am, the Central Maine Human Resources Association will be presenting a program on how to inspire a devoted workforce and boost performance, productivity and quality with employee engagement and Lean thinking. If you have not been to a CMHRA meeting before, sign up as aRead More
AUBURN, Maine – Skelton Taintor & Abbott attorney Rebecca S. Webber will serve as an instructor at the vital training course Drug Impairment in the Workplace, How Does H.R. Respond? The half-day class is being held on Nov. 12 at Dirigo Safety Headquarters in Auburn. With drug abuse in Maine currently at epidemic proportions, itRead More
The topic of common property ownership comes up frequently in the state of Maine with many people owning lake and beach properties in addition to their primary residences. It is commonplace for people to pass down their real estate to the next generation. This holds particularly true for sentimental vacation property. It may seem relativelyRead More
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act increased the federal estate tax exemption to $11.2 million for persons dying and transfers after December 31, 2017. Maine advisors have been watching to see whether the State would conform its exemption to the federal exemption, as up through 2017 the Maine exemption and federal exemption had been inRead More
AUBURN, Maine (October 18, 2018) – Stephen B. Wade and Rebecca S. Webber from the firm of Skelton Taintor & Abbott have been honored on the 2018 New England Super Lawyers list. Braden M. Clement and Amy Dieterich have been named to Rising Stars. Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service ofRead More
AUBURN, Maine – Skelton Taintor & Abbott attorneys Rebecca S. Webber, James F. Pross and Jordan Payne Hay will present at the 45th Annual Maine School Management Association (MSMA) Conference. The conference will be held October 25-26, 2018, at the Augusta Civic Center and will feature speakers, product and service vendors and over 50 clinicsRead More
Most of the articles advising you to avoid probate are directed at residents of states which have a much more complicated probate system than Maine’s system. Here, probating a will simply means filing the will with the Probate Court in the county where the decedent lived at the time of death, along with a fill-in-theRead More
The Maine Legislature recently passed a law which provides that written directions regarding your funeral will be binding on all parties. The prior law was that your “next of kin” had the right to make your funeral arrangements unless you made prepaid arrangements. This often resulted in disputes among family members with different ideas aboutRead More
AUBURN, Maine – Skelton Taintor & Abbott attorneys Rebecca S. Webber and Jordan Payne Hay will present at the National Business Institute seminar Human Resource Law: What You Need to Know Now. The seminar will take place on November 7, 2018 at the Embassy Suites by Hilton in Portland. The day-long seminar is designed forRead More
BANGOR — Equal Rights Maine is hosting a panel discussion of the Equal Rights Amendment 6-7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 10, at Bangor Public Library, 145 Harlow St. A panel of Maine attorneys will discuss sex discrimination in Maine and how well our laws and courts protect women. Panelists are: Kathleen Caldwell, retired attorney specializing inRead More
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