State requirements / New Hampshire
New Hampshire parenting class requirement
4 hours within 45 days of service
New Hampshire requires both parents in a parental rights and responsibilities case to attend a four-hour information session, known as the Child Impact Program, within 45 days of service on the original respondent.
The requirement at a glance
| Who must attend | Married or unmarried parents of minor children involved in allocating parental rights and responsibilities. The court is required to order the parties into the session no later than the respondent's filing of an appearance. |
| Hours required | 4 |
| Deadline | Within 45 days of service of the original petition on the original respondent. |
| Authority | RSA 458-D |
| Fees and waivers | No statutory cap. Fees must be fair and reasonable as directed by the administrative judge, and presenters must accept recipients of need-based assistance programs at reduced or no cost. A separate small filing surcharge falls on the petitioner. |
| Our price | $25 for one parent, $50 for both parents on the same case. Scholarship seats are funded by donors, so no parent is turned away for money. |
| Our registry status | We are not pursuing this state yet, and we would rather tell you than let you wait. It either requires the class to be delivered live and in person, which our self-paced course cannot be, or it has no route for a new provider at all. Use your court's own list. If that changes, this page changes with it. |
What the law actually says
“The seminar shall be completed within 45 days of service of the original petition upon the original respondent.”
RSA 458-D:4Quoted from the official text. Read it yourself at the source below.The part nobody explains
Filing your certificate
Each person who completes the seminar is given a certificate of attendance to present to the judge at their court appearance. The court also sends providers an attendee list ahead of the session.
If the deadline passes
On a party's failure to complete the seminar, the assigned judge may take appropriate action, including actions for contempt.
Who approves providers in New Hampshire
The Family Division certifies providers, and the statute limits certification to public or nonprofit providers. It also requires the seminar to be conducted by a certified family therapist or another person certified by the Family Division, and requires that the presenters be a male and a female. In practice the providers are community mental health nonprofits delivering live sessions. A self-paced online course cannot meet the co-facilitation requirement, so New Hampshire stays closed to us until we can deliver live.
What you get from us
- The full course, start to finish, on a phone or a laptop, with your progress saved. Lifetime access, no thirty-day expiry and no extension fees.
- Your certificate the moment you finish, by email, free. A mailed paper copy is optional.
- Free instant verification for your court. A clerk or judge confirms the certificate at our verification page with no account and no phone call.
- Our acceptance guarantee: if your specific court declines this certificate, you get a full refund, no processing fee and no deadline to claim it.
Check us on the law
Every fact on this page traces to an official source. Read them yourself.