Title XLIII, Domestic Relations

I. In this section: (a) "Contracted supervisor" means a mediator meeting the requirements of RSA 328-C:2 and RSA 328-C:5, VI who has contracted with the court to participate in court-referred mediation under this chapter. (b) "Mediation" means a process in which a neutral third p…

I. Before a child-custody determination is made under this chapter, notice and an opportunity to be heard in accordance with the standards of RSA 458-A:7 must be given to all persons entitled to notice under the law of this state as in child-custody proceedings between residents …

I. After the filing of a petition for divorce, annulment, separation or a decree of nullity, the superior court may issue orders with such conditions and limitations as the court deems just which may, at the discretion of the court, be made on a temporary or permanent basis. Temp…

I. Property shall include all tangible and intangible property and assets, real or personal, belonging to either or both parties, whether title to the property is held in the name of either or both parties. Intangible property includes, but is not limited to, employment benefits,…

I. Upon the filing of an action under this chapter, the court shall issue an order restraining each party from selling, transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, concealing, or in any manner whatsoever disposing of any property, real or personal, belonging to either or both parti…

I. Except as otherwise provided in RSA 458-A:15, a court of this state may not exercise its jurisdiction under this subdivision if, at the time of the commencement of the proceeding, a proceeding concerning the custody of the child has been commenced in a court of another state h…

I. A court of this state which has jurisdiction under this chapter to make a child-custody determination may decline to exercise its jurisdiction at any time if it determines that it is an inconvenient forum under the circumstances and that a court of another state is a more appr…

Upon a decree of nullity, divorce, or legal separation, if one spouse is a member of a group health insurance plan and the employer or any other sponsor is responsible for the payment of the premium required by the insurer as the consideration for providing coverage to an ex-spou…

I. Except as otherwise provided in RSA 458-A:15, if a court of this state has jurisdiction under this chapter because a person seeking to invoke its jurisdiction has engaged in unjustifiable conduct, the court shall decline to exercise its jurisdiction unless: (a) The parents and…

In RSA 458:19-a and RSA 458:19-aa: I. "Alimony" means one or more payments made to, or for the benefit of, a spouse or former spouse. II. "Effective date" means the date when an order takes effect under court rule. III. "Exclusions from gross income" mean Social Security benefits…

I. The court may order term alimony upon agreement of the parties or in the absence of an agreement, at the request of either party by petition or motion in a case for divorce, legal separation, or annulment. Any request for alimony shall be made either before the final decree is…

I. (a) The court may modify the amount or duration of a term alimony order upon agreement of the parties or, in the absence of an agreement, at the request of either party by petition or motion. If the proceeding for modification is contested, any modification shall be supported …

The circuit court shall have jurisdiction to make such orders or temporary orders of alimony to a divorced wife or divorced husband, or of support to the children of divorced parents as justice shall require in cases where the decree of divorce was not granted in this jurisdictio…

I. If the petitioner or respondent is a recipient of medical assistance under the state Medicaid program, the petitioner shall serve the department of health and human services with a copy of any petition for spousal support filed under this chapter. II. The department of health …

In the event of any action the court shall, no later than the respondent's filing of an appearance, require the parties to attend a 4-hour information session. This session shall be a seminar on how to help the children deal with the issues surrounding divorce, separation, and th…

In this chapter: I. "Adjusted gross income" means gross income, less: (a) Court-ordered or administratively ordered support actually paid to others, for adults or children. (b) Fifty percent of actual self-employment tax paid. (c) Mandatory, not discretionary, retirement contribu…

This chapter does not govern an adoption proceeding or a proceeding pertaining to the authorization of emergency medical care for a child.

If any doubt exists whether any marriage is void, or as to the effect of any former decree of divorce or nullity between the parties, a petition may be filed as in other cases, and a decree of divorce or nullity may be made.

I. Child support, spousal support or combination child and spousal support orders issued or modified after January 1, 1994, whether payable through the department or directly to an obligee, shall include a provision assigning a portion of the obligor's income, salaries, commissio…

I. If a deploying parent is required to be separated from a child as a result of deployment, a court shall not enter a final order modifying parental rights and responsibilities and parent-child contact in an existing order until 90 days after the deployment ends, unless such mod…

I. In a child-custody proceeding, each party, in its first pleading or in an attached affidavit, shall give information, if reasonably ascertainable, under oath as to the child's present address or whereabouts, the places where the child has lived during the last 5 years, and the…

In a proceeding under this chapter, the court may set aside a portion of the property of the parties in a separate fund or trust for the support, maintenance, education and general welfare of either party.

I. In a child-custody proceeding in this state, the court may order a party to the proceeding who is in this state to appear before the court in person with or without the child. The court may order any person who is in this state and who has physical custody or control of the ch…

In all cases where alimony or an allowance shall be decreed for a spouse or children the court may require security to be given for the payment thereof.

In this subdivision: I. "Petitioner" means a person who seeks enforcement of an order for return of a child under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or enforcement of a child-custody determination. II. "Respondent" means a person against wh…

Under this subdivision a court of this state may enforce an order for the return of the child made under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction as if it were a child-custody determination.

No decree of divorce shall affect the legitimacy of a child born or begotten in lawful matrimony, unless it shall be so expressed in the decree, and children born of a marriage entered into in good faith by the parties thereto shall be regarded as legitimate children and their le…

In any proceeding under this chapter, except an action for legal separation, the court may, when a decree of divorce or nullity is made, restore a former name of the spouse, regardless of whether a request therefor had been included in the petition.

I. A court of this state shall recognize and enforce a child-custody determination of a court of another state if the latter court exercised jurisdiction in substantial conformity with this chapter or the determination was made under factual circumstances meeting the jurisdiction…

The clerk of the superior court for each county, at the end of each term of court, shall return to the registrar of vital records a full and correct list of all changes of names that have been decreed hereunder by the court since the last return.

I. A court of this state which does not have jurisdiction to modify a child-custody determination, may issue a temporary order enforcing: (a) A visitation schedule made by a court of another state; or (b) The visitation provisions of a child-custody determination of another state…

I. In any case in which a divorce might be decreed, the superior court, on petition of either party, may decree a legal separation of the parties, which separation shall have in all respects the effect of a divorce, except that the parties shall not thereby be made free to marry …

I. A child-custody determination issued by a court of another state may be registered in this state, with or without a simultaneous request for enforcement, by sending to the office of the clerk of the superior court: (a) A letter or other document requesting registration; (b) Tw…

Upon such petition for legal separation the procedure shall be the same as upon petitions for divorce, and the court shall have the same power in all matters relating to restraining orders and decrees, allowances, alimony, parental rights and responsibilities under RSA 461-A for …

I. A court of this state may grant any relief normally available under the law of this state to enforce a registered child-custody determination made by a court of another state. II. A court of this state shall recognize and enforce, but may not modify, except in accordance with …

The parties to such a petition may at any time resume marital relations, upon filing with the clerk of the superior court for the county in which the separation was decreed their written declaration of such resumption, signed, acknowledged and witnessed. Such declaration shall be…

If a proceeding for enforcement under this subdivision is commenced in a court of this state and the court determines that a proceeding to modify the determination is pending in a court of another state having jurisdiction to modify the determination under RSA 458-A:12 through RS…

I. A petition under this subdivision must be verified. Certified copies of all orders sought to be enforced and of any order confirming registration must be attached to the petition. A copy of a certified copy of an order may be attached instead of the original. II. A petition fo…

Such resumption of marital relations shall terminate and annul all restraining orders, and all decrees relating to alimony or parental rights and responsibilities, but shall not affect any decree relating to the division or apportionment of property.

I. A child-custody proceeding that pertains to an Indian child as defined in the Indian Child Welfare Act, 25 U.S.C. section 1901 et seq., is not subject to this chapter to the extent that it is governed by the Indian Child Welfare Act. II. A court of this state shall treat a tri…

I. The department shall be the agency responsible for the administration of this chapter for child support orders, and combination child support and spousal support orders when an application for services under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act has been filed with the departm…

I. (a) The child support guidelines shall be based on the following: Percent of Combined Net Income Devoted to Child Support Net income 1 Child 2 Children 3 Children 4 or more Children %5B15,000 or less 25.6 percent 35.5 percent 42.5 percent 45 percent $25,000 25 35 42 44.5 $35,0…

I. The seminar shall consist of the following: (a) The seminar shall be conducted by a certified family therapist or other persons certified by the judicial branch family division, to inform the parents of the best way to address problems which the children face as the result of …

In any proceedings for annulment for any cause whether under statute or under common law, the court shall have jurisdiction to declare an annulment of a marriage entered into in this state even though neither party has been at any time a resident herein.

I. Upon motion of a deploying or nondeploying parent, the court shall enter a temporary order modifying parental rights and responsibilities or parent-child contact during the period of deployment or mobilization when: (a) A military parent who has shared sole or primary legal or…

At every hearing in which child support is involved, the party seeking the order shall file a child support guideline worksheet, as published by the department of health and human services, division of child support services, duly completed by either the party or attorney. The ot…