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RSA 458:26 · Legal Separation

Title
XLIII: DOMESTIC RELATIONS
Chapter
458 · ANNULMENT, DIVORCE AND SEPARATION
Status
current
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458:26 Legal Separation. –

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I.

In any case in which a divorce might be decreed, the superior court, on petition of either party, may decree a legal separation of the parties, which separation shall have in all respects the effect of a divorce, except that the parties shall not thereby be made free to marry any third person and except as hereinafter provided.

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A person concerning whom a legal separation has been decreed may file a motion to amend the decree to one of divorce. The court may then consider whether justice requires that such a change be made, and, upon such consideration, the court may, in its discretion, grant such a motion. Source. 1919, 68:1. PL 287:24. RL 339:24. RSA 458:26. 1971, 445:5. 1983, 334:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

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Source. 1919, 68:1. PL 287:24. RL 339:24. RSA 458:26. 1971, 445:5. 1983, 334:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1983.

Source history

  • 1919, 68:1. PL 287:24. RL 339:24. RSA 458:26
  • 1971, 445:5
  • 1983, 334:1, eff. Aug. 17, 1983

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