Maine Court Records

re:SearchMaine is the Judicial Branch platform for electronic court records in courts where eFiling is running. Some records are open to the public remotely, others only at a courthouse, and some are not public.

For paper records filed before eFiling, the Judicial Branch takes a Records Search Request by mail.

Maine divorces are District Court cases under 19-A M.R.S. 901, kept by the clerk of the District Court where the complaint was filed. The Maine Rules of Electronic Court Systems make court records public in Rule 3(A), but Rule 7(C)(3) puts divorce, annulment and judicial separation records in the class the public may view only at a courthouse, and Rule 7(D)(6) makes the personal financial documents in a family case nonpublic: child support affidavits and worksheets, QDROs, financial statements, tax documents, W-2s, pay stubs, bank and account statements and payment histories. The Financial Statement FM-043 required by M.R. Civ. P. 108(c) is also kept from public inspection by Rule 108(d)(3).

What a non-party can read at the courthouse is the rest of the file: the complaint, the divorce judgment with its property division and support terms, and any incorporated agreement. re:SearchMaine shows the Registry of Actions for public cases in eFiling courts, and the Judicial Branch provides paper copies of public electronic records free at those courts. The Maine asset search page explains what the judgment still reveals.