Information Sheet (form CV-256): The "Residential Forcible Entry and Detainer (Eviction) Information Sheet and Mediation Request" must be served with each Notice to Quit in a residential tenancy. You can get this form from a district court clerk or download it from www.courts.maine.gov/forms. You do not need to write any information on the form.
Service of the Notice to Quit and Information Sheet: You or anyone acting on your behalf as landlord can give the notice and information sheet to the tenant. If three good faith efforts have been made to serve the tenant by hand the notice and information sheet can be served by both mailing them to the tenant and leaving a copy of them at the rental unit (neither of these, alone, is enough).
Step 2. Starting a Court Case
Three more court forms are needed to bring an eviction case in court. You can get them from a district court clerk or download them from www.courts.maine.gov/forms.
Complaint (form CV-007): The "Complaint for Residential Forcible Entry and Detainer" is used for a residential eviction. Important: Incude names of all tenants on the lines for Defendant(s). If there are more people in the home other than the named tenants, put "and all other occupants" on the form.
Summons (form CV-034): The "FED Summons" tells the tenant(s) when to come to court (the hearing date). You must get a separate summons for each defendant from the clerk’s office for $5 each. The hearing date might be printed on the summons, but if not, ask the clerk for the date and write it on the summons when you fill it out.
Information Sheet (form CV-256): This is the same form you gave the tenant(s) with the Notice to Quit. You must include it again with the other three forms listed above.