New Hampshire § 490-D-1 - Section 490-D:1 Judicial Branch Family Division Established.

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§ 490-D-1. Section 490-D:1 Judicial Branch Family Division Established.

The general court hereby organizes, constitutes, and establishes the judicial branch family division. The goals of the family division are the respectful treatment of all citizens by justices, marital masters, and other family division staff, the prompt and fair resolution of family issues by justices and marital masters specially selected and trained to deal effectively with such issues, the use of alternative dispute resolution to reduce the adversarial nature of proceedings involving families, and the assignment of all family matters of a single family to one family division justice or marital master located in a family division court that is geographically accessible to the family.

Source: official New Hampshire text · Last verified 2026-08-27

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Section 490-D-1 ("Section 490-D:1 Judicial Branch Family Division Established.") is part of the New Hampshire Revised Statutes Annotated, the codified statutory law of New Hampshire. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.

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