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Home » US Law » 2022 New Hampshire Revised Statutes » Title XLIX - Homesteads » Title 480 - The Homestead Right

Section 480:1 – Amount.

    480:1 Amount. – Every person is entitled to $120,000 worth of his or her homestead, or of his or her interest therein, as a homestead. The homestead right created by this chapter shall exist in manufactured housing, as defined by RSA 674:31, which is owned and occupied as a dwelling by the same person […]

Section 480:5-a – Encumbering.

    480:5-a Encumbering. – No deed shall convey or encumber the homestead right, except a mortgage made at the time of purchase to secure payment of the purchase money, unless it is executed by the owner and wife or husband, if any, with the formalities required for the conveyance of land. Source. 1961, 96:2, eff. […]

Section 480:6-a – Devise.

    480:6-a Devise. – No devise of the homestead shall affect the estate of the surviving wife or husband in the homestead right. Source. 1961, 96:3, eff. June 19, 1961.

Section 480:7 – Levy, Etc.

    480:7 Levy, Etc. – The officer required to levy an execution on the debtor’s property in which a homestead right may exist may levy the execution and set off or sell said property in accordance with the provisions of RSA 529, subject to any such homestead right. Source. 1851, 1089:3. CS 196:3. GS 124:5. […]

Section 480:8-a – Establishing Right.

    480:8-a Establishing Right. – The superior court, upon petition of the owner of a homestead or the wife or husband surviving such owner, or upon petition of a judgment creditor and such notice as it may order, may appoint appraisers and cause the homestead right to be set off, and a record of the […]

Section 480:9 – Homestead Rights.

    480:9 Homestead Rights. – A conveyance of real property by deed to one or more trustees of a revocable trust shall not result in the loss of homestead rights of any person executing the deed (unless the deed contains an express release of homestead rights by such person) provided that such retained homestead rights […]