Chapter 170-B - ADOPTION
- Section 170-B:1 - Purpose
- Section 170-B:2 - Definitions
- Section 170-B:3 - Who May Be Adopted; Requirements
- Section 170-B:4 - Who May Adopt
- Section 170-B:5 - Persons Required to Execute a Surrender of Parental Rights
- Section 170-B:6 - Notice to Person Claiming Paternity and Hearing to Determine Right to Surrender
- Section 170-B:7 - Persons Not Required to Surrender
- Section 170-B:8 - Immediate Surrender Prohibited; Availability of Counseling
- Section 170-B:9 - Procedure for Execution of Surrender
- Section 170-B:10 - Content of Surrender
- Section 170-B:11 - Consequences of Surrender
- Section 170-B:12 - Withdrawal of Surrender
- Section 170-B:13 - Payment of Birth Parent Expenses; Penalty
- Section 170-B:14 - Arrangements Between Adoptive and Birth Parents
- Section 170-B:15 - Jurisdiction, Venue, and Inconvenient Forum
- Section 170-B:16 - Petition for Adoption
- Section 170-B:17 - Notice of Petition
- Section 170-B:18 - [Effective Until the date the commissioner of the department of health and human services certifies to the director of the office of legislative services and the secretary of state that 35 compacting states, including New Hampshire, have enacted the 2009 edition of the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children] Assessment
- Section 170-B:18 - [Effective on the date the commissioner of the department of health and human services certifies to the director of the office of legislative services and the secretary of state that 35 compacting states, including New Hampshire, have enacted the 2009 edition of the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children] Assessment
- Section 170-B:19 - Hearing
- Section 170-B:20 - Dismissal of Adoption Proceedings
- Section 170-B:21 - Appeals and Validation of Adoption Decrees
- Section 170-B:22 - Report of Adoption
- Section 170-B:23 - Confidentiality of Records
- Section 170-B:24 - Requests for Identifying and Non-Identifying Information
- Section 170-B:25 - Effect of Petition and Decree of Adoption; Inheritance
- Section 170-B:26 - Change of Name
- Section 170-B:27 - Readoption
- Section 170-B:28 - Placement of a Child From Another State or Country
- Section 170-B:29 - Recognition of Foreign Decree Affecting Adoption
- Section 170-B:30 - Fees and Court Costs
- Section 170-B:31 - Amended Birth Certificate
- UNAUTHORIZED ADVERTISING FOR ADOPTION PURPOSES (§ 170-B:32)
- UNLAWFUL PLACEMENT OF A CHILD FOR ADOPTION (§ 170-B:33)