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New Hampshire · Through 2025 regular legislative session, or December 2025

RSA 458-A:4: International Application of Chapter.

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  1. Title XLIII: DOMESTIC RELATIONS
  2. Chapter 458-A: UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION AND ENFORCEMENT ACT

I. A court of this state shall treat a foreign country as if it were a state of the United States for the purpose of applying RSA 458-A:1 through RSA 458-A:21.

II. Except as otherwise provided in paragraph III, a child-custody determination made in a foreign country under factual circumstances in substantial conformity with the jurisdictional standards of this chapter must be recognized and enforced under RSA 458-A:22 through RSA 458-A:38.

III. A court of this state need not apply this chapter if the child custody law of a foreign country violates fundamental principles of human rights.

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