Rule 1.7 – Clerk’s Office and Judge’s Chambers

May 14, 2021 | Family Law, New Hampshire

A. No petitioners, respondents, witnesses, police personnel, prosecutors, attorneys, or others shall be permitted into a Clerk’s office or judge’s chambers, except when necessary and as authorized by the Court.
B. Official business should be transacted in an area set aside as being accessible to the public for that purpose.
C. No person shall make any statement with regard to the merits of that person’s case, orally or in writing, to any judge in whose court or before whom any case is pending or to be heard except in open court or in the presence of all parties.
D. Any person who shall make any such statement to any judge, except in open court or in the presence of all parties, may be subject to contempt proceedings under RSA 495:2.

N.H. R. Cir. Ct. Fam. Div. 1.7