How to Fill Out and File the NH Financial Affidavit

New Hampshire’s financial affidavit, Form NHJB-2065-F, is a sworn breakdown of your income, expenses, assets, and debts that you file in every divorce, legal separation, child support, custody, paternity, or civil union dissolution case in the Circuit Court Family Division.¹ The court uses it to set support amounts, divide property, and gauge each party’s ability to pay. You sign it under oath, so a knowing false statement is a class B felony under New Hampshire’s perjury statute.²

You need to file it if you’re the petitioner or respondent in a divorce, legal separation, or civil union dissolution; in any post-divorce motion to modify custody, parenting time, child support, or alimony; in a paternity case where support is at issue; or in any proceeding where a party’s ability to pay is in question or the court orders it.

One form covers everyone. Some older guides mention a “short-form” affidavit for people earning under $25,000, but the current Judicial Branch website lists only NHJB-2065-F.³ Download the current version from the Family Division forms page before you start.

Reporting Your Monthly Income

The affidavit works in monthly figures. Enter gross monthly income from every source: wages, self-employment earnings, Social Security, investment income, and so on. Public assistance like TANF, food stamps, SSI, or general assistance goes in a separate section (Section 4) and is excluded from child support calculations.¹

To convert your pay period, the form instructions give you the multipliers:

Weekly pay: multiply by 4.33
Bi-weekly pay (every two weeks): multiply by 2.17
Irregular or seasonal income: enter the average monthly amount

These multipliers account for the months with an extra pay period. Doubling a bi-weekly paycheck understates a year’s income because it misses the 26th check.

Listing Assets and Debts

List every significant asset you own or hold an interest in: real estate, motor vehicles, bank accounts, retirement accounts like 401(k)s and IRAs, pensions, stocks, and personal property of meaningful value. For each item, give the current fair market value and the name of the institution holding it. Work from recent statements. Stale or rounded numbers invite challenges from the other party and from the judge.

Then list every debt: mortgages, car loans, credit card balances, student loans, anything else you owe. Each entry needs the creditor’s name, the outstanding balance, and the interest rate where applicable. Leaving a debt off is risky. If you fail to disclose a liability, the court can later hold you solely responsible for it. Assets minus liabilities gives the court your net worth, which drives how marital property gets divided.

When You Have to Complete the Monthly Expense Section

A monthly expense section sits inside the same form, but it isn’t always required. The instructions say you must fill it out when:¹

Either side argues that the standard child support guidelines should not apply
Either side is requesting alimony or college expenses
You and the other party cannot agree on how to split debts
Either party asks for it, or the court orders it

If none of those apply and both parties agree, you can check the box on the form and skip it. When you do complete it, pull real numbers from recent bills. The expense figures directly affect how much disposable income the court sees, and that number drives support calculations.

Getting the Affidavit Notarized

The affidavit must be sworn under oath and signed before a Notary Public or a New Hampshire Justice of the Peace.¹ Bring valid photo ID. Banks, town clerk offices, and shipping stores commonly offer notary services. For an in-person jurat, the type of notarization used for sworn statements, the maximum fee in New Hampshire is $10.

Remote online notarization is also available. Under Senate Bill 134, effective February 2022, a New Hampshire notary physically located inside the state can notarize documents by secure video call, including jurats. The maximum fee for a remote notarization is $25. Useful if you have mobility issues or live far from a notary, but the notary must be licensed in New Hampshire and located in the state during the session.

Keeping Personal Information Out of the Public File

The affidavit contains Social Security numbers, bank account numbers, and other sensitive data. Under New Hampshire’s Electronic Filing Rule 12, the burden is on you to keep those out of the public record. Never put full Social Security numbers, account numbers, dates of birth, driver’s license numbers, or PINs on any document you upload.

When you need to provide one of those identifiers, put it on a separate Confidential Information Sheet. That sheet is accessible only to the court, the parties, and their attorneys, and it stays out of the public case file. The clerk’s office will not review your documents to catch mistakes. If you accidentally include a full Social Security number on an uploaded form, it stays visible until you fix it.

Filing and Serving the Affidavit

After notarization, file the affidavit with the court and serve a copy on the other party. New Hampshire courts use an electronic filing system for certain case types. If yours qualifies, you create an account, upload the notarized document, and submit it to the case file electronically.⁴ Not every case type is eligible. Check the court’s Electronic Services page or call the clerk’s office if you’re unsure.

Service on the other party can go through the e-filing system if both parties are registered. Otherwise, mail a copy or arrange hand-delivery.

Supporting Documents Under Rule 1.25-A

Filing the affidavit is only half the job. Family Division Rule 1.25-A requires both parties to exchange a set of supporting financial documents within 45 days of the filing date or 10 days before the initial hearing, whichever comes first.⁵

Required in Every Case

The past three years of personal and business federal and state tax returns, with all schedules (W-2s, 1099s, 1098s, K-1s, Schedule C, Schedule E, and anything else filed with the IRS)
The four most recent pay stubs from each current employer, plus the year-end pay stub from the calendar year before the case was filed
For business owners, all monthly, quarterly, and year-to-date profit-and-loss statements, balance sheets, and income statements for the filing year, plus year-end statements for the prior calendar year
Proof of the cost and enrollment status of employer-provided medical and dental coverage for you, your spouse, and your dependent children
Any credit, loan, or mortgage applications, or other sworn statements of assets and liabilities, from the 12 months before the case was filed

Additional Documents in Divorce, Annulment, Legal Separation, or Civil Union Dissolution

Twelve months of documentation for stock options, retirement plans, pensions, profit-sharing, bonuses, commissions, company car use, mileage reimbursement, housing, travel, and membership dues
Twelve months of statements for every bank account held individually, jointly, through a business you own, or in someone else’s name for your benefit or your children’s benefit
Twelve months of statements for all investment and retirement accounts, securities, bonds, certificates of deposit, 401(k)s, IRAs, and pension plans⁵

One point that trips people up: you exchange these documents with the other party, not with the court. Only the affidavit itself gets filed with the court. On the affidavit, you affirm that you complied with Rule 1.25-A.⁶

You Must Refile Before Every Hearing

This catches many people off guard. You must file a new financial affidavit for every hearing in your case, not just the first.¹ If your income changed, you took on new debt, or you sold an asset since the last version, the updated form has to show it. The affidavit itself includes a line acknowledging this ongoing duty. Showing up with an outdated affidavit, or with none at all, can lead to being defaulted or held in contempt.

What Happens If the Affidavit Is False or Incomplete

The stakes are real. Because the affidavit is a sworn statement, deliberately providing false information is perjury, a class B felony in New Hampshire.² Beyond criminal exposure, RSA 458:15-b creates a separate civil cause of action for anyone harmed by a knowing false statement on a financial affidavit. The other party can sue you for damages tied to assets you hid or income you understated.

Even short of fraud, a sloppy affidavit costs you. A judge who spots gaps may draw unfavorable inferences, refuse to rule until the form is corrected, or sanction you for noncompliance. Failing to file at all can produce a default judgment or a contempt finding, and the form itself warns that contempt can lead to a warrant for your arrest.¹ Getting the numbers right the first time is far easier than defending them under cross-examination later.

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New Hampshire Judicial Branch. New Hampshire Financial Affidavit Form NHJB-2065-F
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New Hampshire General Court. New Hampshire Revised Statutes Section 641:1 – Perjury
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New Hampshire Judicial Branch. Financial Affidavit
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New Hampshire Judicial Branch. Electronic Services
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New Hampshire Judicial Branch. Checklist for Rule 1.25-A Mandatory Disclosure
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New Hampshire Judicial Branch. Mandatory Initial Disclosures – Rule 1.25-A