Legislative Update - Bill Passed Adding Reasons for Modifying a Parenting Plan

Yesterday the NH House passed a bill that would allow more reasons a parent could modify a parenting plan.

Under the current statute, there are limited reasons upon which any parent can modify an existing parenting plan:

a) agreement;

b) repeated, intentional, and unwarranted interference by a parent with the residential responsibilities of the other parent;

c) the child's present environment is detrimental to the child's physical, mental, or emotional health, and the advantage to the child of modifying the order outweighs the harm likely to be caused by a change in environment;

 d) best interests of the child if the parties have substantially equal periods of residential responsibility and the original allocation of parental rights and responsibilities is not working;

e) a mature minor child preference as to the parent with whom he or she wants to live; and

f) best interest of the child when modification makes either a minimal change or no change in the allocation of parenting time between the parents.


If the new bill becomes law, parents would have 4 more reasons on which they could modify their existing parenting plan: a change in a parent's travel time for visitation, change in a parent's job schedule; the age of the child; or relocation of a child's residence.

See the whole text of the HB 1280 here.




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