The trial in a $10 million lawsuit in which a Bangor woman accuses her parents of repeated sexual and physical abuse has been moved to Superior Court from federal court.

Joanne E. Goldman’s claim against her parents, Sol I. and Gladys L. Goldman of New York City and Eastbrook, reportedly could take up to a month when it reaches trial in Penobscot County Superior Court, possibly next fall.

The lawyers attribute that to the number of witnesses, who are expected to include psychiatrists who have testified in nationally known cases.

The daughter, now 27, alleges that her father physically and sexually abused her from the time she was 2 years old until she was about 23, and that he raped her between 1972 and 1985. Gladys Goldman, she claims, was negligent in failing to interfere with the alleged abuse.

“It’s a case that basically involved this young woman who was really grossly abused,” Joanne Goldman’s lawyer, Elizabeth Kelly Ebitz of Bangor, said Friday.

Her client, she said, had no memory of the abuse — a psychological phenomenon known as repression — until she was raped in 1985 in Eastbrook, where the family has a summer home. She has remembered more details of the alleged abuse since she began treatment in 1985, according to Ebitz.

Joanne Goldman suffered numerous physical and psychological ailments that could be traced to the abuse, said Ebitz, including an inflammation of joints and muscles; post-traumatic stress disorder; and a drop in intelligence.

“The parents absolutely deny the allegations,” said Carl Rella of Bangor, who represents Sol Goldman and is one of five attorneys representing the parents. The defense would produce “a battery of experts,” he said, who would show that Joanne Goldman’s accusations were unfounded.

He described Sol and Gladys Goldman as “just middle-class people” who teach in the New York City school system.

The intended expert witnesses include two psychiatrists who have been government witnesses in high-profile cases, he said — Park Dietz of California, who testified against John Hinkley, who was convicted of shooting then-President Ronald Reagan in 1981; and Martin Orne of Philadelphia, who testified in the Hillside Strangler serial-murder case.

Rella also said the defense witnesses would include employees and friends of the family who would testify that they witnessed no abuse.

While the case raises no ground-breaking legal issues, Ebitz said the case was unusual, largely because the alleged victim is seeking compensation through her parents’ homeowners’ insurance. Because of that, five defense lawyers are involved.

Ebitz also said it was uncommon because it was aimed at Goldman’s parents. Usually, she said, such abuse cases focus on the behavior of other relatives or neighbors.

Joanne Goldman first filed the lawsuit in July 1986 in U.S. District Court in Bangor. Ebitz said it was dismissed in that court when the five lawyers involved in it agreed that it would be easier to try in Superior Court.

The lawyers also will seek a bench trial — before a judge with no jury which could take three to four weeks of court time. Because of a large number of witnesses from around the country, said Ebitz, a jury trial could take five to eight weeks.