Divorce Settlement Agreement

NEW HAMPSHIRE DIVORCE-SETTLEMENT INTAKE AND DECREE-DRAFTING PACKET

DO-NOT-SIGN OR FILE GATE

This packet records facts, proposals, and drafting decisions only. It does not divide property, assign debt, waive support, establish parenting rights, calculate child support, transfer title, change beneficiaries, release claims, select dispute procedures, or bind the court.

Do not add spouse signatures, acknowledgments, notarization, court approval, or decree language to this packet. Counsel must verify the current New Hampshire statutes, rules, forms, standing orders, and case record and then prepare the separate agreement, parenting plan, support documents, deeds, retirement orders, and proposed decree required for the case.

1. Case and Authority Record

2. Parties and Family Information

Marriage date and place: [________________________________]

Separation date and basis used for the case: [________________________________]

Prior agreements or orders: [________________________________]

Other pending family, protection, juvenile, criminal, probate, or bankruptcy matters: [________________________________]

3. Child and Parenting Screen

☐ No minor or dependent children are involved

☐ Minor or dependent children are involved

If children are involved, complete separately:

No private agreement can replace a required court determination or bind a child, agency, school, provider, or other nonparty without the authority and approval required by current law.

4. Income and Financial Disclosure

☐ Current official financial affidavit or disclosure completed

☐ Tax returns, pay records, bank records, benefit records, and business records exchanged

☐ Valuation and tracing issues identified

☐ Hidden, transferred, dissipated, contingent, or disputed assets investigated

5. Property Inventory and Classification

Counsel must determine the governing classification and division standard. Do not assume that title, inheritance, gift, premarital ownership, or a private label alone determines the court's treatment.

6. Debt and Liability Inventory

A private allocation does not by itself alter a creditor's, taxing authority's, lienholder's, insurer's, or plan administrator's rights. Record the separate consent, refinance, assumption, release, transfer, or order required.

7. Real Property and Title Plan

No deed, title transfer, lien release, or lender obligation is created by this packet.

8. Retirement and Benefit Plan

Confirm survivor benefits, loans, gains and losses, fees, tax treatment, death before division, beneficiary rights, required plan language, and timing with the plan and qualified counsel.

9. Alimony Screen

Do not insert automatic remarriage, cohabitation, death, retirement, review, waiver, or nonmodification language until counsel verifies the current statute, required findings, decree terms, and tax result.

10. Child Support and Child Expenses

If children are involved, use the current official worksheet and forms.

No private recalculation, automatic adjustment, waiver, or enforcement mechanism is created here.

11. Insurance, Tax, and Estate Follow-Up

Do not promise a tax result or assume that a divorce agreement alone changes a plan, policy, deed, account, or estate instrument.

12. Enforcement, Modification, and Court Architecture

A divorce settlement is not an ordinary commercial contract. Do not insert a marital-asset liability cap, force-majeure clause, private child-support formula, blanket fee award, private arbitration, jury waiver, self-help, automatic injunction, or generic commercial default provision.

13. Required Documents and Closing Checklist

☐ Current official petition, appearance, financial, and decree forms

☐ Complete financial disclosures and exchanged records

☐ Property and debt schedule

☐ Parenting plan, if applicable

☐ Child-support worksheet and medical-support documents, if applicable

☐ Alimony findings and terms, if applicable

☐ Deed, legal description, lender, and recording documents

☐ Retirement or benefit order and plan approval

☐ Insurance, tax, and beneficiary follow-up documents

☐ Required notices, certificates, affidavits, and service

☐ Counsel-approved settlement agreement and proposed decree

☐ Required signatures, verification, witnesses, notarization, filing, and copies

☐ This intake packet remains unsigned and outside the executed court set

This packet is complete only as an intake and drafting record. It is not a divorce settlement agreement.