New Hampshire Revised Statutes 161-C:16 – Release of Excess to Debtor
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Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 161-C:16
- Department: means the New Hampshire department of health and human services. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 161-C:2
- Earnings: means compensation paid or payable for personal services whether denominated as wages, salary, commission, bonus or otherwise, and specifically includes periodic payments pursuant to pension or retirement programs, or insurance policies of any type, and all gain derived from capital, from labor or from both combined, including profit gained through sale or conversion of capital assets but does not include payments by any department or division of the state or federal government based upon inability to work or obtain employment. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 161-C:2
- Person: means an individual, trust, estate, partnership, association, company, corporation, political subdivision of the state or instrumentality of the state. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 161-C:2
- Responsible parent: means the natural or adoptive parent of a dependent child. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 161-C:2
If any person has, subject to any order to withhold and deliver, earnings, deposits, accounts or balances in excess of the amount of the debt claimed by the department plus $100, that person may, without liability under this chapter, release the excess to the responsible parent.