Laura Shortill Curtis

Laura Shortill Curtis has a general practice focused on trust, estate, and probate law, including guardianships and conservatorships.  Laura particularly enjoys helping clients pass family properties and businesses to a new generation of ownership.  She helps clients protect their assets such as their homes, savings, artwork, collections, as well as copyrights, trademarks and patents. She advises on the tax consequences of gifts and transfers.  She works with clients who have second marriages and who may have children from prior relationships create tailored estate plans that balance their desire to provide for their new spouse and their children or other relatives.  These kinds of plans may include the adoption of a step-child, the crafting of a pre-nuptial or post-nuptial agreement, or the creation of a life estate or trust to direct property to children after the death of a spouse.

Laura joined Strout & Payson in 2018 after practicing trust, estate and probate law in Penobscot and York counties.  Laura graduated from the University of Maine School of Law in 2014.  She earned her undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 2007.  Laura comes from a lawyering family:  her father and uncles practiced personal injury law at Shortill & Shortill, PA in Sanford.  Laura now lives with her husband, Paul and daughter in South Thomaston.