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NH Rev Stat § 561:12-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:12-a - Delivery Deferred.

    561:12-a Delivery Deferred. –||When it appears that a legatee, distributee, cestui or beneficiary not residing within the territorial limits of the United States of America or any territorial possession thereof would not have the benefit or use or control of property due him and that special circumstances make it desirable that delivery to him be deferred, the probate court may order that such property be converted into available funds and paid to the state treasurer to be invested by him and, together with any proceeds thereof, to be handled subject to such further order as such probate court may enter, provided a reasonable fee, as allowed by the court, of the attorney for any such legatee, distributee, cestui or beneficiary shall be considered a lien on such funds and shall be paid by the fiduciary having such funds in charge to such attorney prior to payment to the state treasurer. A copy of any such further order by the probate court shall be filed with the department of revenue administration.|||Source. 1955, 149:1. 1973, 544:10. 1975, 439:26, eff. July 1, 1975.|
NH Rev Stat § 561:12-b (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:12-b - Repealed by 1997, 208:19, II, eff. Aug. 17, 1997.

    561:12-b Repealed by 1997, 208:19, II, eff. Aug. 17, 1997. –|
NH Rev Stat § 561:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:13 - Advancements.

    561:13 Advancements. –||I. If an individual dies intestate as to all or a portion of the individual's estate, property the decedent gave during lifetime to an individual who, at the decedent's death, is an heir is treated as an advancement against the heir's intestate share only if:||(a) The decedent declared in a contemporaneous writing that the gift was an advancement; or||(b) The heir acknowledged in writing prior to the decedent's date of death that the gift was an advancement; or||(c) The decedent's contemporaneous writing otherwise indicates that the gift is to be taken into account in computing the division and distribution of the decedent's intestate estate; or||(d) The heir's written acknowledgment prior to the decedent's death indicates that the gift is to be taken into account in computing the division and distribution of the decedent's intestate estate.||II. For purposes of paragraph I, property advanced is valued as of the time the heir came into possession or enjoyment of the property or as of the time of the decedent's death, whichever occurs first.||III. If the recipient of the property fails to survive the decedent, the property is not taken into account in computing the division and distribution of the decedent's intestate estate unless the decedent's contemporaneous writing provides otherwise.||IV. If the value of the property received by the heir during the decedent's lifetime exceeds the value of the heir's share of the decedent's intestate estate, the heir shall have no obligation to pay such excess amount to the decedent's estate unless the decedent's contemporaneous writing provides otherwise.|||Source. RS 166:8. CS 176:9. GS 184:9. GL 203:9. PS 196:9. PL 307:12. RL 360:13. 2003, 46:2, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 561:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:14 - Repealed by 2003, 46:3, I, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.

    561:14 Repealed by 2003, 46:3, I, eff. Jan. 1, 2004. –|
NH Rev Stat § 561:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:15 - Repealed by 2003, 46:3, II, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.

    561:15 Repealed by 2003, 46:3, II, eff. Jan. 1, 2004. –|
NH Rev Stat § 561:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:16 - Repealed by 2003, 46:3, III, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.

    561:16 Repealed by 2003, 46:3, III, eff. Jan. 1, 2004. –|
NH Rev Stat § 561:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:17 - Priority of Legacies, Etc.

    561:17 Priority of Legacies, Etc. –||The estate, real and personal, not specifically devised or bequeathed, shall be first liable to the payment of the legal charges against the estate and legacies given by the will, and to be applied to make up the share of any child born after the decease of the testator, or of any child or issue of any child omitted or not provided for in the will.|||Source. RS 166:21. CS 176:13. GS 184:13. GL 203:13. PS 196:13. PL 307:16. RL 360:17.|
NH Rev Stat § 561:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:18 - Contribution by Devisees, Etc.

    561:18 Contribution by Devisees, Etc. –||If the same is not sufficient, the property devised and bequeathed shall be liable therefor, and the judge may settle and adjust, by his decree, the amount of such liabilities, so that each devisee and legatee shall contribute in just proportion thereto. Such liabilities may be taken into consideration and allowed in the decree of distribution of the personal estate, in the division of the real estate, and in the granting of license for the sale thereof, as the case may require.|||Source. RS 166:13. CS 176:14. GS 184:14. GL 203:14. PS 196:14. PL 307:17. RL 360:18.|
NH Rev Stat § 561:19 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:19 - Receipts to be Taken.

    561:19 Receipts to be Taken. –||Every administrator, upon the payment of a legacy or distributive share of an estate, shall take a receipt and discharge therefor, and shall file the same in the probate office, to be there recorded and preserved; the time of filing shall be certified upon it by the clerk.|||Source. RS 166:14. CS 176:15. GS 184:15. GL 203:15. PS 196:15. PL 307:18. RL 360:19. 2011, 88:20, eff. July 1, 2011.|
NH Rev Stat § 561:20 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:20 - Minors Not Under Guardianship.

    561:20 Minors Not Under Guardianship. –||Whenever any minor whose estate is not under legal guardianship shall be entitled to receive from any administrator, executor, trustee, or third party payor, any distribution of personal property by will or intestate succession, or distribution of any other property interest, the administrator, executor, trustee, or third party payor shall make such distribution to the person nominated as such minor's custodian for the benefit of such minor under either RSA 463-A, the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act, or under another state's Uniform Transfers to Minors Act or similar statute, or absent a nominated custodian, to a custodian for the benefit of such minor under RSA 463-A, the Uniform Transfers to Minors Act.|||Source. 1937, 37:1. 1941, 191:1. RL 360:20. 1949, 88:1. RSA 561:20. 1963, 165:4. 1986, 28:1. 2003, 30:1. 2005, 68:2, eff. July 22, 2005.|
NH Rev Stat § 561:21 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 561 - Descent, Distribution, and Advancements|Section 561:21 - Citation to File Receipt.

    561:21 Citation to File Receipt. –||The judge of probate, upon complaint of a surety or his legal representative, may cite an administrator to file his receipt or discharge in the probate office. If the administrator neglects or refuses so to do he shall forfeit twenty dollars, and the like sum for every thirty days' neglect afterward, to be recovered by the complainant, unless the judge shall, on a hearing, certify the reasons of the omission to be sufficient.|||Source. RS 166:15. CS 176:16. GS 184:16. GL 203:16. PS 196:16. PL 307:19. RL 360:21.|
NH Rev Stat § 563:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Section 563:1 - Definitions.

    563:1 Definitions. –||As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:||I. "Co-owners with right of survivorship" includes joint tenants, tenants by the entireties, and other co-owners of property or accounts held under circumstances that entitles one or more to the whole of the property or account on the death of the other or others.||II. "Court" means the probate court to which the jurisdiction of the subject matter belongs.||III. "Governing instrument" means a deed, will, trust, insurance or annuity policy, account with POD designation, pension, profit-sharing, retirement, or similar benefit plan; instrument creating or exercising a power of appointment or a power of attorney; or a dispositive, appointive, or nominative instrument of any similar type.||IV. "Payor" means a trustee, insurer, business entity, employer, government, governmental agency, subdivision, or instrumentality, or any other person authorized or obligated by law or a governing instrument to make payments.|||Source. 1998, 1:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 563:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Section 563:2 - Requirement of Survival by 120 Hours.

    563:2 Requirement of Survival by 120 Hours. –||Except as provided in RSA 563:6, if the title to property, the devolution of property, the right to elect an interest in property, or the right to exempt property, homestead, or family allowance depends upon an individual's survivorship of the death of another individual, an individual who is not established by clear and convincing evidence to have survived the other individual by 120 hours is deemed to have predeceased the other individual. This section shall not apply if its application would result in a taking of an intestate estate by the state.|||Source. 1998, 1:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 563:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Section 563:3 - Requirement of Survival by 120 Hours Under Governing Instruments.

    563:3 Requirement of Survival by 120 Hours Under Governing Instruments. –||Except as provided in RSA 563:6, for purposes of a provision of a governing instrument that relates to an individual surviving an event, including the death of another individual, an individual who is not established, by clear and convincing evidence, to have survived the event by 120 hours is deemed to have predeceased the event.|||Source. 1998, 1:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 563:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Section 563:4 - Co-Owners with Right of Survivorship; Requirement of Survival by 120 Hours.

    563:4 Co-Owners with Right of Survivorship;  Requirement of Survival by 120 Hours. –||Except as provided in RSA 563:6, if:||I. It is not established by clear and convincing evidence that one of 2 co-owners with right of survivorship survived the other co-owner by 120 hours, 1/2 of the property passes as if one had survived by 120 hours and 1/2 as if the other had survived by 120 hours; and||II. There are more than 2 co-owners and it is not established by clear and convincing evidence that at least one of them survived the others by 120 hours, the property passes in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of co-owners.|||Source. 1998, 1:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 563:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Section 563:5 - Evidence of Death or Status.

    563:5 Evidence of Death or Status. –||In addition to otherwise applicable rules of evidence, the following rules relating to a determination of death and status apply:||I. Death occurs when an individual is determined to be dead under RSA 141-D:2.||II. A certified or authenticated copy of a death certificate purporting to be issued by a governmental official or agency of the place where the death purportedly occurred is prima facie evidence of the fact, place, date, and time of death and of the identity of the decedent.||III. A certified or authenticated copy of any record or report of a governmental official or agency, domestic or foreign, that an individual is missing, detained, dead, or alive is prima facie evidence of the status and of the dates, times, identities, circumstances, and places disclosed by the record or report.||IV. In the absence of prima facie evidence of death under paragraph II or III, the fact of death may be established by clear and convincing evidence, including circumstantial evidence.||V. An individual whose death is not established under the preceding paragraphs who is absent for a continuous period of 4 years, during which time that individual has not been heard from, and whose absence is not satisfactorily explained after diligent search or inquiry, is presumed to be dead. The individual's death is presumed to have occurred at the end of the period unless there is sufficient evidence for determining that death occurred earlier.||VI. In the absence of evidence disputing the time of death stated on a document described in paragraph II or III, a document described in paragraph II or III that states a time of death 120 hours or more after the time of death of another individual, however the time of death of the other individual is determined, establishes by clear and convincing evidence that the individual survived the other individual by 120 hours.|||Source. 1998, 1:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999. 2005, 280:5, eff. Jan. 1, 2006.|
NH Rev Stat § 563:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Section 563:6 - Exceptions.

    563:6 Exceptions. –||Survival by 120 hours is not required if:||I. The governing instrument contains language dealing explicitly with simultaneous deaths or deaths in a common disaster and that language is operable under the facts of the case;||II. The governing instrument expressly indicates that an individual is not required to survive an event, including the death of another individual, by any specific period or expressly requires the individual to survive the event for a specified period; but survival of the event or the specified period shall be established by clear and convincing evidence;||III. The imposition of a 120-hour requirement of survival would cause a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment to be invalid under the Rule Against Perpetuities; but survival shall be established by clear and convincing evidence; or||IV. The application of a 120-hour requirement of survival to multiple governing instruments would result in an unintended failure or duplication of a disposition; but survival shall be established by clear and convincing evidence.|||Source. 1998, 1:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 563:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Section 563:8 - Uniformity of Application and Construction.

    563:8 Uniformity of Application and Construction. –||This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.|||Source. 1998, 1:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 563:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Section 563:9 - Short Title.

    563:9 Short Title. –||This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Simultaneous Death Act.|||Source. 1998, 1:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 563:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Section 563:10 - Severability.

    563:10 Severability. –||If any provision of this chapter or its application to any persons or circumstance is held invalid, the validity does not affect other provisions or applications of the chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.|||Source. 1998, 1:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 563:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Act|Section 563:11 - Applicability.

    563:11 Applicability. –||I. An act done before the effective date of this chapter in any proceeding, and any right accrued before the effective date of this chapter shall not be impaired by this chapter. If a right is acquired, extinguished, or barred upon the expiration of a prescribed period of time that has commenced to run by the provisions of any statute before the effective date of this chapter, the provisions remain in force with respect to that right; and||II. Any rule of construction or presumption provided in this chapter shall apply to instruments executed and multiple-party accounts opened before the effective date of this chapter, unless there is a clear indication of a contrary intent.|||Source. 1998, 1:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 563-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-A - Uniform Testamentary Additions to Trusts Act|Section 563-A:1 - Testamentary Additions to Trusts.

    563-A:1 Testamentary Additions to Trusts. –||I. A will may validly devise or bequeath property to the trustee of a trust established or to be established:||(a) During the testator's lifetime by the testator, by the testator and some other person, or by some other person including a funded or unfunded life insurance trust, although the trustor has reserved any or all rights of ownership of the insurance contracts, or||(b) At the testator's death by the testator's devise to the trustee, if the trust is identified in the testator's will and its terms are set forth in a written instrument, other than a will, executed before, concurrently with, or after the execution of the testator's will or in another individual's will if that other individual has predeceased the testator, regardless of the existence, size, or character of the corpus of the trust. The devise or bequest is not invalid because the trust is amendable or revocable, or because the trust was amended after the execution of the will or the testator's death.||II. Unless the testator's will provides otherwise, property devised or bequeathed to a trust described in paragraph I is not held under a testamentary trust of the testator but it becomes a part of the trust to which it is devised or bequeathed, and must be administered and disposed of in accordance with the provisions of the governing instrument setting forth the terms of the trust, including any amendments thereto made before or after the testator's death.||III. Unless the testator's will provides otherwise, a revocation or termination of the trust before the testator's death causes the devise or bequest to lapse.|||Source. 1996, 200:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 563-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-A - Uniform Testamentary Additions to Trusts Act|Section 563-A:2 - Effect on Existing Wills.

    563-A:2 Effect on Existing Wills. –||This chapter shall apply to a will of a testator who dies after January 1, 1997.|||Source. 1996, 200:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 563-A:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-A - Uniform Testamentary Additions to Trusts Act|Section 563-A:3 - Uniformity of Application and Construction.

    563-A:3 Uniformity of Application and Construction. –||This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.|||Source. 1996, 200:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 563-A:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-A - Uniform Testamentary Additions to Trusts Act|Section 563-A:4 - Short Title.

    563-A:4 Short Title. –||This act may be cited as the Uniform Testamentary Additions to Trusts Act.|||Source. 1996, 200:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1997.|
NH Rev Stat § 563-B:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-B - Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act|Section 563-B:1 - Short Title.

    563-B:1 Short Title. –||This chapter may be cited as the "Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act."|||Source. 2021, 206:2, Pt. VI, Sec. 10, eff. Aug. 10, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 563-B:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-B - Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act|Section 563-B:2 - Application.

    563-B:2 Application. –||This chapter applies to disclaimers of any interest in or power over property, whenever created.|||Source. 2021, 206:2, Pt. VI, Sec. 10, eff. Aug. 10, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 563-B:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 563-B - Uniform Disclaimer of Property Interests Act|Section 563-B:3 - Definitions.

    563-B:3 Definitions. –||For purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply:||(a) "Disclaimant" means the person to whom a disclaimed interest or power would have passed had the disclaimer not been made.||(b) "Disclaimed interest" means the interest that would have passed to the disclaimant had the disclaimer not been made.||(c) "Disclaimer" means the refusal to accept an interest in or power over property.||(d) "Fiduciary" means a personal representative, administrator, trustee, agent acting under a power of attorney, or other person authorized to act as a fiduciary with respect to the property of another person.||(e) "Jointly held property" means property held in the name of 2 or more persons under an arrangement in which all holders have concurrent interests and under which the last surviving holder is entitled to the whole of the property.||(f) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality; public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity.||(g) "State" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. The term includes an Indian tribe or band, or Alaskan native village, recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state.||(h) "Trust" means:||(1) An express trust, charitable or noncharitable, with additions thereto, whenever and however created as defined in RSA 564-A:1; and||(2) A trust created pursuant to a statute, judgment, or decree which requires the trust to be administered in the manner of an express trust.|||Source. 2021, 206:2, Pt. VI, Sec. 10, eff. Aug. 10, 2021.|