Terms Used In New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:3

• Authorized agency: means the New Hampshire department of health and human services or a licensed child-placing agency. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Child: or "minor" means a person less than 18 years of age. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Court: means the probate court. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
• Legal custody: means a status created by court order, embodying the following rights and responsibilities:
  (a) The right to have the physical possession of the child;
  (b) The right and the duty to protect, train and discipline the child; and
  (c) The responsibility to provide the child with food, clothing, shelter, education and ordinary medical care, provided that such rights and responsibilities shall be exercised subject to the powers, rights, duties and responsibilities of the guardian of the person and subject to residual parental rights and responsibilities if these have not been terminated by judicial decree. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 170-C:2
• petition: when used in connection with the equity jurisdiction of the superior court, and referring to a document filed with the court, shall mean complaint, and "petitioner" shall mean plaintiff. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:51
• Probate: Proving a will
• state: when applied to different parts of the United States, may extend to and include the District of Columbia and the several territories, so called; and the words "United States" shall include said district and territories. See New Hampshire Revised Statutes 21:4