HB 1516 – AS AMENDED BY THE SENATE
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2006 SESSION
05/04
HOUSE BILL 1516
AN ACT relative to the modification and enforcement of child support orders.
SPONSORS: Rep. Slocum, Hills 6; Rep. Bickford, Straf 3
COMMITTEE: Children and Family Law
This bill permits modification of a child support order based on a change in custody under the juvenile statutes or guardianship statute, a change in residential responsibility, or by mutual agreement of the parties.
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Explanation: Matter added to current law appears in bold italics.
Matter removed from current law appears [in brackets and struckthrough.]
Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.
15Feb2006… 0697h
05/04/06 2039s
06-2617
05/04
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six
AN ACT relative to the modification and enforcement of child support orders.
Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:
2 Child Support Guidelines; Modification of Order; Grounds for Modification. Amend RSA 458-C:7, I to read as follows:
I. [The obligor or obligee may apply to the court or, when the department of health and human services has issued a legal order of support pursuant to RSA 161-C, to the department, whichever issued the existing order, for modification of such order 3 years after the entry of the last order for support, without the need to show a substantial change of circumstances. This section shall not prohibit the obligor or obligee from applying at any time for a modification based on substantial change of circumstances.] A child support order may be modified, upon application to the court, if:
(a) Three years have elapsed since the entry of the last order for support;
(b) Either party demonstrates a substantial change in circumstances;
(c) The parties agree to a change in the child support amount;
(d) The court has removed the child from the custody of the obligee pursuant to RSA 169-B, RSA 169-C, RSA 169-D, or RSA 463 or from the residential responsibility of the obligee under RSA 461-A; or
(e) The parties agree on a change in residential responsibility or designation of obligee.
2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2007.