2009 New Hampshire Statutes
TITLE LVI — PROBATE COURTS AND DECEDENTS' ESTATES (Includes Chapters 547 - 567-A)
CHAPTER 560 — RIGHTS OF SURVIVING SPOUSE
Section 560:3 Dower and Curtesy Abolished.

    I. Neither husband or wife, widower or widow, shall be vested with either choate or inchoate right of curtesy or dower in the real estate of his or her spouse.
    II. Any person claiming such an interest in the estate of a person deceased prior to midnight, August 10, 1971, shall record notice of said claim in the registry of deeds for each county in which real estate subject to said claim is located prior to midnight, December 31, 1991.
    III. If the notice described in paragraph II of this section is not recorded in the registry of deeds for the appropriate county by December 31, 1991, and a sworn affidavit or recitation in a deed of an owner of record is so recorded at any time subsequent to December 31, 1991, stating that no person has claimed such an interest against the subject property or the owner during the period of ownership, it shall be irrebuttably presumed that such interest has been released.

Source. RS 165:3. CS 175:3. GS 183:2. GL 202:2. PS 195:3. PL 306:3. RL 359:3. RSA 560:3. 1971, 179:20. 1991, 141:1, eff. July 19, 1991.