Heather C. Wicks v. Padraic H. Conroy

[¶ 1] Padraic H. Conroy appeals from a judgment of the Superior Court (Hancock County, Cuddy, J.) partitioning real property he owned as a tenant in common with Heather C. Wicks. Finding no error, we affirm the judgment.

I. BACKGROUND

[¶ 2] Conroy and Wicks are brother and sister. In the early 1970s, their mother began living in a two-story oceanfront cottage she owned in Surry, Maine. The cottage sits on a wooded lot on the bay, with views of the mountains on Mount Desert Island. In 1991, the mother (who lived on the first floor) rented the upstairs apartment to Conroy and Wicks’s father, from…