Maine Revised Statutes

(a).    Every conservator shall account to the court for the administration of the trust as specified by the court at the time of the initial order or at the time of a subsequent order or as provided by court rule and upon resignation or removal. Notwithstanding any other duty to render an accounting, a private conservator appointed after January 1, 2008 shall file an annual account with the court for approval. The court, for good cause shown by a conservator who is the spouse or domestic partner of the protected person, may waive or modify the duty to file an annual account. The annual account must be approved by the court before the conservator's obligation to file the annual account ends.

(b).    Subject to appeal or vacation within the time permitted, an order, made upon notice and hearing, allowing an intermediate account of a conservator, adjudicates as to the conservator's liabilities concerning the matters considered in connection therewith; and an order, made upon notice and hearing, allowing a final account adjudicates as to all previously unsettled liabilities of the conservator to the protected person or the protected person's successors relating to the conservatorship. In connection with any account, the court may require a conservator to submit to a physical check of the estate in the conservator's control, to be made in any manner the court may specify.

(c).    The court may appoint a visitor to review the conservator's accounts and determine if appropriate provision for the use, care and protection of the protected person's property has been made. The visitor shall report the findings to the court in writing.

(d).    If the conservator fails without good cause to file the accounting required by the court, the court may require the conservator or the conservator's surety to pay to the protected person's estate a minimum of $100 and a maximum of the amount the court determines is just to compensate the estate for any damage resulting from the failure to file the accounting. The payments required by this subsection are in addition to any other award or remedy available at law or in equity for fiduciary misconduct of the conservator.