Your state’s pack. New issues arrive periodically on Mondays. Bookmark it. I built this for the New Hampshire T&E solo who knows its own probate code (RSA Title LVI) cold but still loses an afternoon a week hunting the current homestead number, the the Choices for Independence (CFI) waiver posture, whether the latest opinion from the New Hampshire Bar Association changes how you scope an engagement, or whether a recent New Hampshire Supreme Court decision just moved the law on capacity, undue influence, or a trustee’s duties. What’s below is what mattered in New Hampshire lately — the week’s developments and the recent rulings from the bench.
For licensed attorneys. This pack is general legal information and professional commentary for practicing attorneys — it is not legal advice, does not apply to any specific matter, and creates no attorney-client relationship. Verify every authority against the cited primary source before relying on it with a client. Published by Mike Moss, a Utah-admitted attorney, as an AI-enablement information product; it is not an offer of legal services and is not a representation that the author is admitted to practice in your jurisdiction.
Three developments from the last seven days that I think actually matter to a New Hampshire T&E solo. Each one has a read that lands on your practice specifically — and each one comes with the citation so you can verify the detail yourself before you use it with a client.
HB 617 (2025), signed by Gov. Ayotte Aug. 1, 2025 as Chapter 282, raises the RSA 480:1 homestead exemption from $120,000 to $400,000 per person effective January 1, 2026, caps the combined exemption at $550,000 for multiple owners, adds a 12-month primary-residence requirement, extends protection to trust beneficiaries residing in the home, and creates an unlimited exemption for medical/catastrophic-illness debt.
For clients holding a home in a revocable trust for estate-planning or Medicaid reasons, the trust-beneficiary extension closes a long-standing gap — the protection now follows a beneficiary living in the home. For everyone, the higher floor reshapes the equity-protection conversation, and any analysis still keyed to $120,000 is now badly understated.
New Hampshire Legislature · HB 617 (2025, Ch. 282) · LEGISCAN.COM
New Hampshire’s Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act, RSA ch. 563-D, took effect July 1, 2024, finally giving the state a non-probate transfer for real estate. The deed must be titled ‘Transfer on Death Deed’, name a beneficiary, state that the transfer occurs at the transferor’s death, and be recorded before death within 60 days of execution; it is freely revocable.
New Hampshire now has a probate-avoidance tool it lacked for decades. Add the TOD deed to the planning menu — but mind the recording window: it must be recorded within 60 days of execution and before death, or it fails, so do not treat it as a document a client can sign and set aside for later.
New Hampshire Revised Statutes · RSA ch. 563-D · GC.NH.GOV
The NHBA Ethics Committee published a sequence of Ethics Corner articles on generative AI — ‘Ethics of Using Artificial Intelligence in Practice’ (posted May 15, 2024), ‘Ethics of Drafting Documents with Artificial Intelligence’ (Sept. 10, 2024), and ‘Understanding Generative AI and the Potential for Discrimination and Bias’ (Oct. 30, 2024) — grounding AI use in Rules 1.1, 1.6, 3.3, and 5.1/5.3. No formal numbered ethics opinion has issued.
Treat the Ethics Corner series as committee guidance, not a binding opinion, and cite it that way. The operative duties are the existing Rules of Professional Conduct — competence, confidentiality, candor, and supervision — which the articles read onto AI-assisted work.
New Hampshire Bar Association · Ethics Corner · NHBAR.ORG
Decisions from the courts that bind a New Hampshire practitioner — the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for 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, and estate recovery. One read, the holding, and the official cite.
Across the New Hampshire Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for New Hampshire, and the First Circuit, no qualifying trusts-and-estates or estate-recovery decision surfaced for this period that the lane could verify against an official reporter. Per the lane’s no-invent rule, this row says so plainly rather than inflating a holding.
Nothing to re-paper from the bench this period; controlling authority is unchanged.
Awaiting verified weekly signal — CourtListener used for discovery only, never cited as authority.
No qualifying New Hampshire Supreme Court, U.S. District Court, or First Circuit trusts-and-estates or estate-recovery decision was verified against an official reporter during the trailing window. The lane reads-and-discards Medicaid program/provider litigation as not T&E.
There is nothing new from the bench to re-paper into your forms or advice this period; rely on existing controlling authority until the next verified decision lands.
Official New Hampshire reporters · courts.nh.gov — CourtListener used for discovery only, never cited as authority.
This week in New Hampshire for the T&E solo with Choices for Independence clients: the developments from the New Hampshire Bar Association and NH DHHS (Medicaid) that actually moved your practice this period — each one primary-source verified.
Bar and Medicaid changes land on different schedules and aren’t indexed by practice focus. Every item here was checked against its primary source, with the link, so you can verify before relying on it.