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Legal Information: New Hampshire
Laws current as of July 17, 2024 Step 3: A judge or marital master will consider your petition.
The clerk will take your completed forms to a judge or master while you wait. The judge or master will look at your petition and decide if there is enough immediate danger to give you a temporary order. The judge or master may ask you some questions, or may decide based only on your petition. If the judge or master grants the order, you will get a copy of it from the clerk.
The judge will also set a hearing date for your final protective order.
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