Bill Text - HB618 (2024)

Relative to wage garnishment with child support payments.


Revision: Oct. 31, 2022, 9:07 a.m.

 

2023 SESSION

23-0089.1

06/04

 

HOUSE BILL [bill number]

 

AN ACT relative to wage garnishment with child support payments.

 

SPONSORS: [sponsors]

 

COMMITTEE: [committee]

 

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ANALYSIS

 

This bill adds restrictions to the circumstances for an income assignment.

 

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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Matter which is either (a) all new or (b) repealed and reenacted appears in regular type.

23-0089.1

06/04

 

STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE

 

In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Twenty Three

 

AN ACT relative to wage garnishment with child support payments.

 

Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened:

 

1  Income Assignment.  RSA 458-B:2, II(a) is repealed and reenacted to read as follows:

II.(a) In the event that an assignment is suspended in the first instance, it shall take effect:

(1)  At the request of the obligor;

(2)  Upon a court finding that the obligor is in violation or contempt of an order of support;

(3)  After notice and an opportunity to contest pursuant to RSA 458-B:5 and RSA 458-B:7, when the state has commenced payment of public assistance for the benefit of a child;

(4)  When an arrearage period amounting to the support owed for 2-months or more has accrued;

(5)  If the obligor resides out of state; or

(6)  A court has imposed a protective order that is in effect and related to the order of support.

2  Effective Date.  This act shall take effect January 1, 2024.