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

RSA 546-B:11-b: Continuing, Exclusive Jurisdiction to Modify Spousal Support Order.

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  1. Title LV: PROCEEDINGS IN SPECIAL CASES
  2. Chapter ARTICLE 2: JURISDICTION

I. A tribunal of this state issuing a spousal support order consistent with the law of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the spousal support order throughout the existence of the support obligation.

II. A tribunal of this state may not modify a spousal support order issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country having continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over that order under the law of that state or foreign country.

III. A tribunal of this state that has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction over a spousal support order may serve as:

(a) An initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce the spousal support order issued in this state; or

(b) A responding tribunal to enforce or modify its own spousal support order.

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