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A person is responsible to pay child support until the child reaches the age of 18, graduates high school, marries, or joins the armed services, whichever is later. Child support and alimony are not the same thing and child support cannot be used a substitute for alimony. See New Hampshire's Uniform Support Order form.

In the United States, where a child is conceived or born during wedlock, the husband is legally presumed to be the father of the child. Some states have a legal process for a husband to disavow paternity, such that a biological father can be named as the parent of a child conceived or born during a marriage.

Joint Custody and Child Support in Concord, New Hampshire Although the parenting arrangement is one of the factors that a judge can consider in setting child support, equal residential responsibility for your children (what joint custody is now called), does not automatically result in no child support being paid.

Paternity must be established before a father can be required to pay child support. The law now allows you to file a paternity action up to the child's 18th birthday. Contact DCSS for help in establishing paternity. You may also call 603 Legal Aid to request more information.

Paternity is established by marriage, Affidavit of Paternity, or Court Order. Once a case has been opened you must complete and notarize a paternity questionnaire. If you don't complete and return the paternity questionnaire: The case may be closed.

1. Voluntary Acknowledgment - When everyone involved is in agreement that a person is the father, they can sign a Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity form that will declare him so. This form must be signed, notarized and submitted to the New Hampshire Department of Health.