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You can use an Affidavit in Maine for estates with less than $40,000, not counting liens or encumbrances (like a mortgage). There is a thirty-day waiting period.
Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. 3-1201 and following.
You can use a summary probate procedure for estates in which the value of the estate, less liens or encumbrances, doesn't exceed the homestead allowance, exempt property, family allowance, and cots of administration, funeral expenses, and last illness expenses.
Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. 3-1203 and following.
A surviving spouse who inherits everything outright can also use a summary probate procedure.
The state of Maine imposes an estate tax on property owned in Maine. If you are inheriting property from the state of Maine, it may be subject to estate tax if the overall value of the estate is more than $6,410,000.
The minimum wage in Maine is $14.15 an hour. Because this is higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25, employees in Maine must be paid at least $14.15 an hour.
The minimum wage in Cumberland County is currently $14.15 an hour, the state minimum wage. However, cities and counties in Maine are free to adopt their own higher local minimum wage, and dozens of local governments across the country have done so. To find out whether Cumberland County has passed its own minimum wage law since we last updated, visit the county’s website at https://www.cumberlandcounty.org/.
In Maine, your employer may pay you a minimum wage of $7.08 an hour, as long as you earn enough in tips to bring your total hourly pay up to the full minimum wage, $14.15 an hour. If you don’t earn enough in tips to bring your compensation to the full minimum wage, your employer must make up the difference.
No. Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 14, § 4426.
Real or personal property (including cooperative) used as residence to $80,000; if debtor has minor dependents in residence, to $160,000; if debtor over age 60 or physically or mentally disabled, $160,000 (joint debtors in this category may double); proceeds of sale exempt for six months
$10,000
In Maine, you can receive unemployment benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks under state law.