Jacqueline R. Moss

Jacqueline R. Moss is the owner of Moss Legal Services, LLC in Scarborough, Maine. Moss focuses on family law and related planning matters, including divorce, parental rights and responsibilities, protection orders, agreements, estate planning, guardian ad litem work, and QDROs. The practice includes representation of individuals and families in contested and negotiated domestic-relations matters. These matters require close attention to legal requirements and to the practical circumstances surrounding each client’s objectives.

Moss earned a B.A. from Bard College, a J.D. from the University of Maine School of Law, and a master’s degree from the University of Southern Maine’s Muskie School for Public Service. Her education also includes additional graduate-level public-service study and supports work that often combines legal, financial, and family considerations. This background supports careful legal research, analysis, writing, and practical problem solving across the matters handled in the practice.

Moss’s experience includes divorce, child support, child custody, parental rights, paternity, spousal support, prenuptial agreements, post-judgment enforcement, and protection matters. Her professional background includes prior family-law practice and volunteer work through Maine’s legal-services community. Across these matters, the work calls for careful preparation, clear issue identification, and practical attention to the available legal options. That experience informs strategy as a matter moves from initial assessment through negotiation, hearing, trial, appeal, or completion.

Jacqueline R. Moss has been selected to New England Rising Stars in family law. Her practice is built around family-law advocacy and related planning services for clients in Scarborough and surrounding Maine communities. The overall profile reflects sustained professional work in the areas described above and a practical approach to client representation. That combination of experience and professional involvement supports measured guidance on the legal issues within the current practice.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Moss Legal Services, LLC
• Member, Maine State Bar Association
• Co-Chair, Women’s Law Section of the Maine State Bar Association (2017-2019)
• Member, Cumberland County Bar Association
• Member, York County Bar Association
• Member, Maine Volunteer Lawyers Project (2015-Present)
• Member, Access & Visitation Advisory Committee (2019-Present)
• Member, Working Group to Study Possible Solutions for Families Facing Emergency Custody Child Situations (2022-2023)

Licensed State

• Maine

Education

• University of Maine School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Muskie School of Public Service
  Master of Public Policy & Management
• Bard College
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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