Your state's pack. New issues arrive periodically on Mondays. Bookmark it. I built this for the New Hampshire T&E solo who knows RSA Title LVI cold but still loses an afternoon a week tracking the moving Medicaid pieces — especially the expanded recovery that reaches joint tenancy, life estates and living trusts.
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Three developments I think actually matter to a New Hampshire T&E solo. Each has a read that lands on your practice specifically — and each comes with a reachable citation so you can verify it yourself before you use it with a client.
HB617 raises the RSA 480:1 homestead right to $400,000 per person (with an aggregate cap), up from $120,000, effective Jan 1, 2026.
This is a real shift in creditor and planning math for the home. Update your asset-protection and homestead-declaration advice; note the new 12-month primary-residence condition.
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 480:1; HB617 (2025) · gencourt.state.nh.us
HB68 enacted the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act at RSA ch. 563-D; a TODD must be recorded within 60 days of execution and before death.
Long-standing guidance that NH had no TOD deed is now stale. But because recovery is expanded, a TODD avoids probate without defeating recovery — flag the gap for clients.
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. ch. 563-D; HB68 (2024) · gencourt.state.nh.us
Under RSA 167:14-a, the recovery estate includes property held in joint tenancy, life estates, and living trusts titled on or after July 1, 2005.
The classic life-estate-deed and joint-tenancy moves do not defeat NH recovery. Build around irrevocable structures and the look-back, not survivorship titling.
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. 167:14-a · gencourt.state.nh.us
Decisions that bind a New Hampshire practitioner — the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, and the First Circuit — read for what actually changes how you draft, advise, and plan. Trusts and estates broadly, not Medicaid alone: wills and capacity, undue influence, fiduciary duty, trust construction, guardianship, and estate recovery. One read, the holding, and the official cite.
K.S., who grew up in New Hampshire, suffered a traumatic brain injury and moved to a residential facility in Maine, where she lived continuously from 2019. In 2024, facing her possible return, a New Hampshire service provider petitioned for guardianship of her person; K.S. moved to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction. The trial court kept the case and appointed a public guardian, reasoning she was still a New Hampshire resident because she did not live in Maine voluntarily, received New Hampshire Medicaid, and lacked Maine identification. The New Hampshire Supreme Court vacated and ordered dismissal. Adult-guardianship jurisdiction is governed not by the general probate-venue statute (RSA 464-A:3) but by the Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act (RSA ch. 464-C), which makes “home state” turn on actual physical presence for six consecutive months — a deliberately concrete test that displaces the vague concept of domicile to prevent two states from each claiming jurisdiction. K.S. had been physically present in Maine for years, so Maine was her home state and the residency factors the trial court relied on were immaterial. Significant-connection jurisdiction also failed, because the ward herself — a person entitled to notice — had objected to jurisdiction. Lacking subject-matter jurisdiction, the court could go no further.
For elder-law and special-needs practitioners, this is a clean jurisdictional checklist. Before filing (or defending) an adult-guardianship petition where the proposed ward has any out-of-state tie, run the UAGPPJA home-state test first: count six consecutive months of actual physical presence ending at (or within six months before) filing — not domicile, not where the family or the funding sits. A ward in a long-term out-of-state placement has likely acquired that state as her home state, and New Hampshire then lacks home-state jurisdiction no matter how strong the historical or financial connections look; significant-connection jurisdiction is a fallback that collapses the moment the ward objects. Because subject-matter jurisdiction cannot be waived and can be raised for the first time on appeal, a guardianship obtained in the wrong state stays vulnerable years later — confirm the home state up front and, where the ward has truly relocated, file in the placement state or pursue a transfer under the Act.
In re Guardianship of K.S., 2025 N.H. 47 (N.H. Nov. 7, 2025) (published) · official opinion — courts.nh.gov
This week in New Hampshire for the T&E solo with Medicaid-planning clients: what the NH Bar Association, DHHS, the General Court, and CMS put in front of you.
The bar CLE calendar, the DHHS bulletins, the General Court bill tracker, and the federal standards all publish on different schedules. This is that sift, already done, with the link on each item.