Section 457-A:1 State Recognition of Civil Unions; Purpose.


   The state of New Hampshire recognizes the civil union between one man and another man or one woman and another woman. The purpose of this chapter is to delineate the rights, obligations, and responsibilities of parties entering a civil union, to establish a process by which the civil union is established, and to provide a process for the dissolution of a civil union.

Source. 2007, 58:1, eff. Jan. 1, 2008.