ABOUT LIZ

With more than 35 years of experience in divorce and family law, Scheffee Law’s Liz Scheffee is skilled in helping parties resolve domestic relation conflicts including complex financial matters and child custody disputes. Having retired from litigation, Liz now focuses her work on reviewing and drafting premarital agreements, mediating pre and post-judgment disputes, and acting as a agreed-to referee/arbitrator to make final decisions in divorce and family law cases.   Liz is known for her compassion, skill and understanding and is experienced in alternative dispute resolution.

Liz is an active member of the American Bar Association, as well. She spent two terms with the ABA Standing Committee on Lawyer Referral and Information Programs and a subsequent two terms with the ABA Standing Committee on the Delivery of Legal Services. Liz has also served as Maine Delegate to the ABA. In 2003, the ABA presented the Louis Brown award to Maine’s Self-Represented Litigant Task Force for work Liz did to develop and implement rules to allow lawyers to provide limited scope representation to litigants in Maine. Liz has lectured throughout the country to regional and state bar associations about how to provide unbundled legal services to self- represented litigants who otherwise could not afford an attorney.

Liz has been involved in international and interstate matrimonial cases, including Hague Convention litigation and Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act cases. She has been a leader in the Maine Bar Association and was its president in 2001. Liz has also served as: president of the Maine Bar Foundation, chair of the Family Law Section of the Maine Bar Association, as a member of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s Advisory Committee on the Code of Professional Responsibility, and as a member of the Supreme Court’s task force reviewing adoption of the American Bar Association’s Model Rules of Professional Responsibility.

Liz’s previous clients include single moms and dads, business owners, people in recovery, celebrities, politicians and many others. With all of her cases, Liz handles legal and personal matters with confidentiality and discretion, while striving to bring clarity to legal matters that can be emotional and sometimes stressful. Drawing on a deep understanding of family law and national network of expertise, Liz leads her mediation and reference clients to successful resolution of even the most complicated family law matters. Her practice includes York, Cumberland, Knox, Kennebec, Waldo, Sagadahoc, Oxford, Lincoln, Somerset, Penobscot and Piscataquis counties in Maine.

Liz earned her J.D. from the University of Virginia and speaks on family law topics at both national and regional events. She wrote the “Maine Preliminary Injunction Statute” that sets ground rules at the beginning of divorce matters. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Liz has been rated a top practitioner in family law by her peers through the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Ratings, the gold standard in attorney ratings that has recognized lawyers for their strong legal ability and high ethical standards for the last 100 years.