The owner didn't sell her property, just changed its name. The living trust is happening everywhere because people are aware that by changing their own deed to a living trust prevents Maine care system from taking their property, if they are over the 5-year earmark before getting services.

I hope you also wrote the new title of owner on your written notice for the current term owed.

So, the only thing you change on your new NOC is the book and page and name/title.

If you added your extension on previous NOC with the former name in your written notice, then add the extension of the former book, page and name in the NOC.

Bottom line, when she dies, the new owner listed in the deed for the living trust will have to PAY all the liens owed before the new owner can "transfer" the deed to her/him.

This scenario has happened to a similar owner but instead the owner had created an LLC for his property. Fortunately, he paid to discharge the lien.

Note I call it a lien, because in accordance with Registry of Deeds this is how they list it, and it helps flag to title companies, banking institutions, and creditors that our NOC's lay claim to the property, and it must be paid before refinancing mortgages, etc.

The definition of Misc.. for Registry of Deeds is Title 33:

§654. Miscellaneous records

Registers shall receive and record all certificates in equitable proceedings, copies of judgments and decrees certified by the clerk of courts in the county where the complaint is pending or the judgment or decree is rendered, certified copies of the proceedings of any court, corporation, municipal body or other tribunal through or by which the right of eminent domain has been or may be exercised to affect the title to real estate, copies of portions of wills devising real estate situated in their respective counties or districts, affidavits filed under Title 10, section 9094‑A, subsection 3‑C and all other instruments that they are by law required to record. They shall receive all copies of seizures on execution and special attachments made and attested by any officer of real property situate in their respective counties or districts and certify on them the time when they are received, and certificates of advertised stallions and copies of processes against domestic corporations filed for service by officers in the registry, keep them on file for the inspection of parties interested and enter them in suitable records properly indexed. 

Whereas title 23:3104 says:

 Any money owed pursuant to section 3101, 3102 or 3103 is an obligation that is personal to the owners of the subject parcels, jointly or severally, and also burdens the parcel and runs with the land upon the transfer of any owner's interest. 

So, is the Registry of Deeds saying that our NOC's are claiming eminent domain under misc?

Currently NOC's that are only a NOC is recorded as a lien.

The document/instrument in which Registry of Deeds is most challenged by is the combination of a NOC and previously recorded NOC (extension). This document is the real issue where they are classifying it as a MISC. But the new law has repealed the cost for extensions:

13-A.  (TEXT EFFECTIVE UNTIL 1/01/26) Previously recorded instrument.  An instrument satisfying, releasing, discharging, assigning, subordinating, continuing, amending or extending an instrument previously recorded in the county in which recording is requested must make reference to only one previously recorded instrument, or a fee of $13 for each additional previously recorded instrument referred to must be paid.  

13-A.  (TEXT REPEALED 1/01/26) Previously recorded instrument. 

[PL 2025, c. 328, §4 (RP); PL 2025, c. 328, §10 (AFF).]

Thereby, eliminating the cost on previously recorded instruments (our NOC extensions) still leaves the question of how to classify/index a NOC with an extension document. I prefer a lien classification as it red flags the uninformed citizen whereas a Misc implies it's not important.

I've been thinking about the need for changing the name/tiltle and rerecording the NOC after discovering the new Deed which places the above parcel in a Trust. 

The Statutes do not require us to monitor the County Registry for changes in name/title and address of the property owner delinquent in payment. The Statutes require us to use the owner information on file with the town assessor. In the case above, the tax records have not yet been changed. I believe we are within our rights to have recorded the NOC as we did, waiting for the tax records to reflect the name/title change.