AI-assisted research summary: After a petition is filed, the court must set a hearing and issue notice. The notice must be mailed to specified people, parents may object or consent, and the petitioner pays the certified-mail cost.
I. After the filing of a petition, the court shall set a date for a hearing, and issue orders of notice in reasonably understandable language. The orders of notice shall be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to both parents of the minor and to any person or persons alleged to have had principal care and custody of the minor during the 60 days preceding the filing of the petition, and by first class mail to: (a) The minor, if 14 years of age or older and not the petitioner. (b) The person nominated in the petition to be the guardian. (c) Any person named as a testamentary guardian of the person or of the estate or of both of the minor in the will of a decedent parent. (d) The department, if the petition identifies any juvenile proceeding affecting the minor. (e) Any parent or any sibling, aunt, uncle, or adult child of the parents of the minor if both parents are deceased. (f) The petitioner or petitioners. II. The orders of notice required by paragraph I shall further specify: (a) That either parent has a right to object to and contest the guardianship petition. (b) That either parent has a right to consent to the granting of the guardianship petition, and if such parent consents, he or she shall do so before the court or the court's designee as specified in RSA 463:8, IX. (c) The nature and purpose of the proceeding and hearing as set forth in RSA 463:8, and that the parent or parents with legal custody are required to attend the hearing whether consenting or objecting to the petition. III. A written consent to the petition is submission to the jurisdiction of the court. IV. If the location of the parent or parents is unknown and this fact is sworn to under oath by the petitioner, the court may take whatever steps it deems necessary to ensure due process is satisfied unless, for good cause shown, it determines that process is impracticable or would serve no purpose, in which case notice may be waived. V. The cost of orders of notice sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, shall be paid by the petitioner. Source: Source. 1995, 222:1; 310:175. 1997, 100:2. 2004, 11:2. 2005, 160:2. 2011, 177:1, eff. Aug. 13, 2011.