Child Support Modification

NEW HAMPSHIRE CHILD SUPPORT MODIFICATION

Investigation and Court-Filing Preparation Packet

DO NOT SIGN OR FILE THIS PACKET. Use it to assemble the record and prepare
the current court-approved documents. Continue complying with every existing
order unless counsel and the appropriate court process establish otherwise.

1. Matter and Order Control

Attach or securely link the complete current order and every later order that may affect support.

2. Current-Law, Form, and Procedure Register

3. Route Classification

Select only after counsel verifies the available route.

☐ Contested request to modify an existing support order

☐ Agreed or stipulated modification

☐ Administrative or child-support-agency review

☐ Termination, emancipation, or change affecting fewer than all children

☐ Correction, clarification, enforcement, credit, or arrears issue rather than modification

☐ Interstate, tribal, registration, transfer, or jurisdiction issue

☐ Emergency or temporary issue requiring a separate process

☐ Other: [________________________________]

Selected route and reason: [________________________________]

Routes investigated but excluded: [________________________________]

4. Claimed Change Chronology

Potential change categories:

☐ Employment, compensation, business, benefits, disability, retirement, or incarceration

☐ Parenting schedule, residence, custody, dependency, or household

☐ Childcare, education, health coverage, or unreimbursed health expense

☐ Additional legal duty of support or other guideline input

☐ Existing order omitted or misstated a required subject

☐ Other: [________________________________]

Do not use a fixed percentage or duration unless current authority makes it applicable to this order and request.

5. Child and Parenting Information

Recent custody or parenting-time change: [________________________________]

Separate custody proceeding or proposed change: [________________________________]

School, childcare, or health records needed: [________________________________]

6. Financial Information Register

Create separate verified entries for each party. Do not put sensitive account or identity numbers in this worksheet.

Missing disclosure: [________________________________]

Income-classification, averaging, imputation, business-control, or cash-flow issue: [________________________________]

7. Current Calculation Workpaper

Use only the current calculator, worksheet, schedules, definitions, and rounding instructions selected in the authority register.

Calculator or worksheet name, version, and date: [________________________________]

Inputs not yet verified: [________________________________]

Counsel conclusion about whether the selected route is supported: [________________________________]

8. Effective Date, Arrears, and Payment Administration

Do not state that filing, agreement, changed residence, or private payment automatically changes the operative order.

9. Evidence and Disclosure Checklist

☐ Current and prior support orders

☐ Recent pay statements and employer records

☐ Tax returns and income statements

☐ Business, self-employment, and ownership records

☐ Benefit, retirement, disability, or unemployment records

☐ Health-insurance plan and cost evidence

☐ Childcare invoices and payment proof

☐ Medical, dental, educational, and special-expense records

☐ Parenting-time calendars and custody orders

☐ Payment registry, arrears, credit, and enforcement records

☐ Public-assistance or child-support-agency documents

☐ Other: [________________________________]

10. Requested-Relief Drafting Workspace

Write the requested result only after the current-law and calculation registers are complete.

1. Existing order to be addressed: [________________________________]
2. Verified changed circumstances or other ground: [________________________________]
3. Current guideline calculation and source: [________________________________]
4. Requested support amount: [________________________________]
5. Requested effective date and authority: [________________________________]
6. Health coverage and expense allocation: [________________________________]
7. Arrears, credit, withholding, or payment-channel treatment: [________________________________]
8. Other requested term: [________________________________]
9. Contrary facts, disputes, and alternatives: [________________________________]

11. Filing and Service Control

12. Final Filing Gate

☐ Complete current order and case history reviewed

☐ Correct court, case number, party labels, and requested route confirmed

☐ Current official law, forms, calculator, and local instructions checked

☐ Amendment and effective-date screening completed

☐ Every financial input tied to a current record

☐ Parenting, childcare, insurance, medical, and dependent inputs verified

☐ Public-agency and interstate or tribal issues resolved

☐ Effective date, arrears, credit, withholding, and payment route reviewed separately

☐ Requested relief matches the calculation and current authority

☐ Confidential information is handled through the required protected process

☐ Filing, service, response, disclosure, and hearing steps independently calendared

☐ No private signature block, automatic fee, sanction, contempt, garnishment, injunction, waiver, indemnity, liability cap, arbitration term, or jury waiver remains

Preparing professional: [________________________________]

Final New Hampshire counsel reviewer: [________________________________]

Review date: [__/__/____]