Title XII, Public Safety and Welfare

I. Whenever the department receives an application for public assistance on behalf of a child and it shall appear to the satisfaction of the department that said child has been abandoned by its parents or that the child and one parent have been abandoned by the other parent or th…

I. Child support payments shall be made payable through the office of child support enforcement services of the department upon written notice by the commissioner to a person responsible for the support of a dependent child or to a court or administrative agency having jurisdicti…

In order to carry out its responsibilities imposed under this chapter, the department is hereby authorized to commence or appear in any proceedings before any court or administrative agency for the purpose of obtaining, enforcing, or modifying an order of support on behalf of any…

I. Any parent or other person, against whom the department seeks to establish a support obligation under RSA 161-C:4 or RSA 161-C:8 and 9 as a result of such person's absence or failure to adequately support a dependent child, shall be required to disclose to the department the p…

I. The department is authorized and directed to establish a central unit to serve as a repository of information, to answer inquiries concerning absent parents and other persons legally responsible for support, to coordinate and supervise departmental activities in relation to su…

The commissioner shall adopt rules under RSA 541-A relative to: I. The establishment of reasonable standards to limit applications for support enforcement services under RSA 161-B:3, III. II. The establishment of reasonable fees for support enforcement services under RSA 161-B:3,…

I. In all cases in which child support obligations are payable through the department, the obligor shall inform the court which issued the support order in writing of any change of address within 15 days of the change. II. Each new order for support or outstanding order for suppo…