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NH Rev Stat § 550:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 550 - Citations and Notice|Section 550:4 - Cases Requiring No Notice.

    550:4 Cases Requiring No Notice. –||The probate court may, at the discretion of the judge, proceed without notice in the following cases:||I. In the probate of wills in common form.||II. In the appointment of the person entitled to such trust, or of the person by him nominated, as administrator.||III. In the appointment of appraisers of estates.||IV. In licensing the sale of personal estate.||V. In licensing the sale of real estate whenever the heirs at law or devisees consent thereto in writing, or it is of less than five hundred dollars in value.||VI. In the appointment of commissioners of insolvent estates.||VII. In the appointment of guardians of minors.||VIII. In granting allowances to widows.||IX. In the assignment of the homestead right.||X. In making orders for suits upon probate bonds.||XI. In changing the names of persons who reside in the county and who apply therefor.||XII. In the appointment of trustees named in wills.||XIII. In licensing the mortgage of real estate pursuant to RSA 554:30-35.||XIV. In allowing the payment of a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars for the perpetual care of a cemetery lot and the monuments thereon where the decedent is buried.||XV. When an accounting is filed by a guardian who is a parent of or a person standing in loco parentis to a minor having his home with such guardian.|||Source. RS 155:1. 1843, 34:14. CS 164:1. GS 173:2. GL 192:2. PS 185:2. PL 296:2. RL 349:2. RSA 550:4. 1957, 167:2. 1963, 165:1, 2. 1971, 179:13, 14. 1997, 100:10, 11, eff. Jan. 1, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 550:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 550 - Citations and Notice|Section 550:5 - Citation to Parties Interested.

    550:5 Citation to Parties Interested. –||In all cases in which notice is required a citation shall be issued, or an order of notice made to the parties interested, to appear at the court at a day and place therein appointed, that they may be heard if they see cause.|||Source. RS 155:2. CS 164:2. GS 173:3. GL 192:3. PS 185:3. PL 296:3. RL 349:3.|
NH Rev Stat § 550:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 550 - Citations and Notice|Section 550:6 - Service.

    550:6 Service. –||Every citation or order of court to an individual, requiring him to perform a particular duty, shall be served by giving to him in person or leaving at his abode a certified copy thereof, if he resides in this state, twelve days at least before the day of hearing.|||Source. RS 155:3. CS 164:3. GS 173:4. GL 192:4. 1881, 20:1. PS 185:4. PL 296:4. RL 349:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 550:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 550 - Citations and Notice|Section 550:7 - Service Outside the State, Etc.

    550:7 Service Outside the State, Etc. –||Every citation or order of notice to a person residing out of the state, or to the widow, heirs, devisees, legatees, creditors or persons interested in an estate, in general terms, to be present at a proceeding relative to the estate, shall be served by giving to each person to whom it is directed or leaving at his abode, twelve days at least before the day appointed for such proceedings, a certified copy of the citation or order of notice or by publication.|||Source. RS 155:4. CS 164:4. GS 173:5. GL 192:5. 1881, 20:1. PS 185:5. PL 296:5. RL 349:5.|
NH Rev Stat § 550:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 550 - Citations and Notice|Section 550:8 - Additional Notice.

    550:8 Additional Notice. –||In addition to the notice prescribed in the preceding sections, the judge may order personal notice, or notice sent by mail, to any person interested, or notice by publication in a newspaper printed elsewhere, as he shall deem proper in the case.|||Source. RS 155:5. CS 164:5. GS 173:6. GL 192:6. PS 185:6. PL 296:6. RL 349:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 550:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 550 - Citations and Notice|Section 550:9 - Exceptions; Other Notice.

    550:9 Exceptions;  Other Notice. –||Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, no publication or service of any petition, motion, pleading, or other proceeding, shall be required as to any party or person who has filed, or for whom there has been filed, in the probate registry, an appearance in writing, and notice shall be sufficient if a copy of such petition, motion, or other proceeding, together with notice of the time and place of hearing, shall be mailed to such party or person, or the attorney of record for such party or person, at the address specified in the appearance.|||Source. 1947, 140:1. RL 349:6-a.|
NH Rev Stat § 550:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 550 - Citations and Notice|Section 550:10 - Publication of Notice in Newspaper.

    550:10 Publication of Notice in Newspaper. –||I. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, whenever notice is required to be published in a newspaper by any provision of this title, the register of probate shall cause such notice to be published 2 weeks successively in a newspaper which circulates in the town or city in which the person whose estate is involved last resided, or in the county whose court has jurisdiction, or otherwise as ordered by the judge.||II. The register of probate may select the newspaper for publication, provided only that it is a newspaper in the English language, unless the judge shall otherwise order. The register may publish a notice in a newspaper in other than the English language, provided that he also publishes the same notice in a newspaper in the English language at the same time. The first such publication shall be at least 2 weeks before the day or thing of which notice is given and the second publication shall be at least 7 days before the day or thing of which notice is given, unless otherwise ordered by the judge.||III. The register of probate may publish in one notice the necessary information pertaining to more than one estate, provided, however, that each separate subject matter such as the appointment of a fiduciary, a hearing on an account, a hearing on a license to sell real estate, or any other designated subject matter shall have a specific designation within each such notice.||IV. Prior to such publication, the fiduciary of the estate concerned shall advance and pay to the register of probate the cost of such publication as determined by the register, and a fee to the register as established by the supreme court under RSA 490:27. The fiduciary shall be allowed said sums so paid to the register in his account.|||Source. 1851, 1119:1. CS 164:6. GS 173:7. 1877, 35:1. GL 192:7. PS 185:7. PL 296:7. RL 349:7. RSA 550:10. 1967, 429:1. 1979, 337:1. 1981, 310:5, eff. Sept. 14, 1981.|
NH Rev Stat § 550:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 550 - Citations and Notice|Section 550:11 - Accounts; Notice to Beneficiaries.

    550:11 Accounts;  Notice to Beneficiaries. –||I. In this section, "fiduciary" means any:||(a) Executor;||(b) Administrator, including voluntary administrator, special administrator, administrator with will annexed, and administrator de bonis non; or||(c) Trustee.||II. Whenever any fiduciary files an account in the probate court, the fiduciary shall contemporaneously forward the following to all persons beneficially interested as defined in RSA 550:12, and all parties appearing of record:||(a) A copy of the account; and||(b) A notice that the account may be approved unless a written objection, containing the specific factual or legal basis for the objection, is filed within 30 days after the date the account is filed in the probate court. This notice requirement is waived if all assents are filed pursuant to paragraph IV.||III. The fiduciary shall certify to the probate court that the requirements of paragraph II have been complied with.||IV. If the fiduciary files, pursuant to RSA 550:13, assents to the account from all persons beneficially interested as defined in RSA 550:12, and all parties appearing of record, the account may be approved earlier than 30 days after the date the account is filed in the probate court, at the discretion of the court.|||Source. 1947, 264:6, par. 8. RL 349:8. RSA 550:11. 1971, 256:1. 1991, 190:2. 1998, 155:6, eff. July 8, 1998.|
NH Rev Stat § 550:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 550 - Citations and Notice|Section 550:12 - Person Beneficially Interested Defined.

    550:12 Person Beneficially Interested Defined. –||A person is beneficially interested if the person is:||I. An heir or distributee of an intestate estate;||II. A residuary legatee under a will;||III. A specific legatee under a will, but has not received the legacy;||IV. A beneficiary having a vested interest in a trust;||V. The attorney general in estates involving charitable trusts;||VI. A ward, or a minor under guardianship who is 14 years of age or older;||VII. An heir, or legatee under a will of a deceased ward; ||VIII. A creditor who is known to the fiduciary and has not been paid; or||IX. The trustee of a trust which is a beneficiary of the estate.|||Source. 1947, 264:6, par. 9. RL 349:9. RSA 550:12. 1977, 597:1. 1979, 291:1. 1998, 155:7. 2003, 82:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2004.|
NH Rev Stat § 550:13 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 550 - Citations and Notice|Section 550:13 - Dispensation of Citation and Notice.

    550:13 Dispensation of Citation and Notice. –||The citation and notice required to be given to any person in any proceeding may be dispensed with upon written assent by such person to such proceeding or upon his written waiver of such citation and notice. A duly appointed guardian ad litem may give assent or waive citation or notice as aforesaid.|||Source. 1953, 97:1. RSA 550:13. 1963, 165:3. 1967, 429:2, eff. Sept. 5, 1967.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:1 - Testators.

    551:1 Testators. –||Every person of the age of eighteen years and married persons under that age, of sane mind, may devise and dispose of their property, real and personal, and of any right or interest they may have in any property, by their last will in writing.|||Source. RS 156:1. CS 158:11; 165:1. GS 164:12; 174:1. GL 183:11; 193:1. PS 186:1. 1923, 10:1. PL 297:1. RL 350:1. 1943, 93:1, eff. March 30, 1943.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:2 - Requirements.

    551:2 Requirements. –||I. To be valid, a will or codicil to a will shall:||(a) Be made by a testator qualifying under RSA 551:1; and||(b) Be in writing; and||(c) Be signed by the testator, or by some person at his or her express direction in his or her presence; and||(d) Be signed by 2 or more credible witnesses, who shall, at the request of the testator and in the testator's presence, attest to the testator's signature.||II. No seal shall be required. These requirements shall apply to all wills executed on or after January 1, 1993.||III. (a) For the purposes of this chapter, a person attesting a will or codicil as a witness shall be deemed in the presence of the testator if the witness, the testator, the other witness or witnesses, as the case may be, and a notarial officer who is (1) the attorney, licensed to practice law in New Hampshire and in good standing, who drafted the will or codicil; (2) another attorney, licensed to practice law in New Hampshire and in good standing, under the drafting attorney's supervision; or (3) a paralegal under the supervision of either such attorney, can communicate simultaneously by sight and sound through an electronic device or process at the time all of them sign the will or codicil, which may be signed in multiple counterparts. A witness need not be physically present within the state of New Hampshire at the time the witness attests to the testator's signature.||(b) Nothing in this paragraph shall be deemed to allow an electronic will or codicil. This paragraph shall apply only to wills executed on or after March 23, 2020.|||Source. RS 156:6. 1848, 726:1. CS 165:6. GS 174:6. GL 193:6. 1887, 64:1, 2. PS 186:2. PL 297:2. RL 350:2. 1943, 93:2. RSA 551:2. 1983, 255:1. 1985, 200:1. 1992, 284:60, eff. Jan. 1, 1993. 2020, 17:12, eff. July 17, 2020. 2021, 206:2, Pt. II, Sec. 11, eff. Aug. 10, 2021.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:2-a (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:2-a - Self-Proved Wills.

    551:2-a Self-Proved Wills. –||I. To qualify as self-proved, the signatures of the testator and witnesses shall be followed by a sworn acknowledgment made before a notary public or justice of the peace or other official authorized to administer oaths in the place of execution, as follows:||The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this __________ (day) by ___, the testator; ___ and ___, the witnesses, who under oath do swear as follows:||1. The testator signed the instrument as the testator's will or expressly directed another to sign for the testator.||2. This was the testator's free and voluntary act for the purposes expressed in the will.||3. Each witness signed at the request of the testator, in the testator's presence, and in the presence of the other witness.||4. To the best of my knowledge, at the time of the signing the testator was at least 18 years of age, or if under 18 years was a married person, and was of sane mind and under no constraint or undue influence.|____________________||||Signature||||____________________||||Official Capacity|||||II. Any will meeting the requirements of RSA 551-A shall also qualify as self-proved and shall be allowed as such by the probate court.|||Source. 1983, 255:2. 1985, 200:2. 1999, 100:3, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:3 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:3 - Interested Witness.

    551:3 Interested Witness. –||Any beneficial device or legacy made or given in a will to a subscribing witness thereto or to the wife or husband of such a witness shall be void unless there be 2 other subscribing witnesses, and such subscribing witness shall be a competent witness thereto; but a provision therein for the payment of a debt shall not be void nor disqualify the creditor as a witness thereto.|||Source. RS 156:8. CS 165:8. GS 174:8. GL 193:8. PS 186:3. 1911, 3:1. PL 297:3. RL 350:3. RSA 551:3. 1983, 255:3, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:4 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:4 - Corporate Beneficiary.

    551:4 Corporate Beneficiary. –||No will nor any part thereof shall be holden invalid, nor any witness thereto incompetent, by reason of any or all of the witnesses being, at the time of the execution or of the probate thereof, members of a corporation to which a devise or legacy is therein given.|||Source. 1865, 4089:1. GS 174:9. GL 193:9. PS 186:4. PL 297:4. RL 350:4.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:5 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:5 - Will Made Outside the State.

    551:5 Will Made Outside the State. –||I. A will made out of this state, and valid according to the laws of the state or country where it was executed, may be proved and allowed in this state, and shall thereupon be as effective as it would have been if executed according to the laws of this state.||II. A will made out of this state, and self-proved according to the laws of the state or country where it was executed, is self-proved in this state and shall be allowed as such by the probate court.|||Source. 1883, 106:1. PS 186:5. PL 297:5. RL 350:5. 1999, 100:4, eff. Jan. 1, 2000.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:6 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:6 - Devise of Real Estate.

    551:6 Devise of Real Estate. –||Every devise of real estate shall be holden to pass all the estate of the devisor therein, unless it shall appear that it was his intention to pass a less estate.|||Source. RS 156:4. CS 165:4. GS 174:4. GL 193:4. PS 186:6. PL 297:6. RL 350:6.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:7 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:7 - After-Acquired Property.

    551:7 After-Acquired Property. –||Any estate, right or interest in real property acquired by the testator after making his will, shall pass thereby, if such shall appear to have been his intention.|||Source. RS 156:2. CS 165:2. GS 174:2. GL 193:1, 2. PS 186:7. PL 297:7. RL 350:7.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:8 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:8 - Limited Estate.

    551:8 Limited Estate. –||No express devise of an estate for life or other limited estate shall be enlarged or construed to pass any greater estate, by reason of any devise to the heirs or issue of such person.|||Source. RS 156:5. CS 165:5. GS 174:5. GL 193:5. PS 186:8. PL 297:8. RL 350:8.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:9 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:9 - Disseizin.

    551:9 Disseizin. –||No devise or bequest of any property shall be defeated by a disseizin or wrongful dispossession thereof by any other person.|||Source. RS 156:3. CS 165:3. GS 174:3. GL 193:3. PS 186:9. PL 297:9. RL 350:9.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:10 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:10 - Child Not Named, Etc.

    551:10 Child Not Named, Etc. –||Every child born after the decease of the testator, and every child or issue of a child of the deceased not named or referred to in his will, and who is not a devisee or legatee, shall be entitled to the same portion of the estate, real and personal, as he would be if the deceased were intestate.|||Source. RS 156:9. CS 165:9. GS 174:10. GL 193:10. PS 186:10. PL 297:10. RL 350:10.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:11 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:11 - Share of Unnamed Child.

    551:11 Share of Unnamed Child. –||If the property not devised nor bequeathed shall be insufficient to satisfy the just share of such child, after allowing advancements received by him, the same shall be made up in just proportion from the property devised or bequeathed to others.|||Source. RS 156:10. CS 165:10. GS 174:11. GL 193:11. PS 186:11. PL 297:11. RL 350:11.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:12 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:12 - Heirs of Legatee.

    551:12 Heirs of Legatee. –||The heirs in the descending line of a legatee or devisee, deceased before the testator, shall take the estate bequeathed or devised, in the same manner the legatee or devisee would have taken it if he had survived.|||Source. RS 156:11. CS 165:11. GS 174:12. GL 193:12. PS 186:12. PL 297:12. RL 350:12.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:14 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:14 - Implied.

    551:14 Implied. –||The preceding section shall not control or affect any revocation of a will, implied by law, from any change in the circumstances of the testator, or his family, devisees, legatees or estate, occurring between the time of making the will and the death of the testator.|||Source. RS 156:14. CS 165:14. GS 174:15. GL 193:15. PS 186:15. PL 297:14. RL 350:14.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:15 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:15 - Nuncupative Will.

    551:15 Nuncupative Will. –||A soldier in actual military service, or a mariner or seaman when at sea, may dispose of his movables and personal estate as he might heretofore have done.|||Source. RS 156:7. 1848, 726:1. CS 165:7, 16. GS 174:7. GL 193:7. PS 186:16. PL 297:15. RL 350:15.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:16 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:16 - Validity.

    551:16 Validity. –||No nuncupative will shall be valid where the personal estate bequeathed exceeds in value one hundred dollars, unless declared in the presence of three witnesses who were requested by the testator to bear witness thereto, in his last sickness and in his usual dwelling, except when he was taken sick from home and died before his return; nor unless a memorandum thereof was reduced to writing within six days, and presented for probate within six months from the making thereof.|||Source. RS 156:15. CS 165:15. GS 174:16. GL 193:16. PS 186:17. PL 297:16. RL 350:16.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:17 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:17 - Donatio Causa Mortis.

    551:17 Donatio Causa Mortis. –||No gift in expectation of death, often called donatio causa mortis, shall be valid, unless the actual delivery of the property to the donee shall be proved by two indifferent witnesses, upon petition of the donee to the judge to establish such gift, filed within sixty days after the decease of the donor.|||Source. GS 174:17. GL 193:17. PS 186:18. PL 297:17. RL 350:17.|
NH Rev Stat § 551:18 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551 - Wills|Section 551:18 - to 551:21 Repealed by 1977, 274:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1977.

    551:18 to 551:21 Repealed by 1977, 274:1, eff. Aug. 21, 1977. –|
NH Rev Stat § 551-A:1 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551-A - Uniform International Wills Act|Section 551-A:1 - Definitions.

    551-A:1 Definitions. –||In this chapter:||I. "International will" means a will executed in conformity with RSA 551-A:2 through RSA 551-A:5.||II. "Authorized person" and "person authorized to act in connection with international wills" mean a person who by RSA 551-A:9, or by the laws of the United States including members of the diplomatic and consular service of the United States designated by Foreign Service Regulations, is empowered to supervise the execution of international wills.|||Source. 1998, 120:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|
NH Rev Stat § 551-A:2 (2021)
2021 New Hampshire Revised Statutes|Title LVI - Probate Courts and Decedents' Estates|Title 551-A - Uniform International Wills Act|Section 551-A:2 - International Will; Validity.

    551-A:2 International Will;  Validity. –||I. A will shall be valid as regards form, irrespective particularly of the place where it is made, of the location of the assets and of the nationality, domicile, or residence of the testator, if it is made in the form of an international will complying with the requirements of this chapter.||II. The invalidity of the will as an international will shall not affect its formal validity as a will of another kind.||III. This chapter shall not apply to the form of testamentary dispositions made by 2 or more persons in one instrument.|||Source. 1998, 120:1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999.|