New Hampshire Department of State Division of Vital Records Administration

Marriage & Name Change SENATE BILL: 201 This bill provides that, upon marriage, either person may retain his or her surname prior to marriage, take the surname of the other party, or hyphenate the surnames of both parties. A person who takes the other party’s surname also may change his or her middle name to his or her surname prior to marriage.

1 New Paragraph: II-a.(a) Upon entering into marriage, either party may retain his or her surname prior to the marriage or change his or her surname to the surname of the other party or change the surname to a hyphenated combination of the full surnames of both parties. If a party requests a surname change under this paragraph, that party may also change his or her middle name to his or her surname prior to the marriage. Each party shall indicate on the marriage application worksheet the party’s name after marriage. (b) Provided that the change is not made for a fraudulent criminal or wrongful purpose, the name of each party after marriage as indicated on the marriage application worksheet and marriage license shall become the sole legal name of each party after marriage. If a party indicates a name change other than as described in subparagraph (a), the party shall request approval of the court. 2 Effective Date. This act shall take effect January 1, 2015

Choice of names in 2015 marriages (as of May 12, 2015) Total marriages as of May 12, Person A retains his/her name123878% Person B retains his/her name44528% Both parties retain their names21213%

Proposed HB 681 AN ACT increasing the marriage license fee. Marriage License Fee. Amend 1 RSA 457:29 to read as follows: 457:29 Marriage License Fee. The fee for the marriage license shall be [$45] $50 to be paid by the parties entering into the marriage. The clerk shall forward [$38] $43 from each fee to the department of health and human services for the purposes of RSA 173-B:15. The clerk shall retain the remaining $7 as the fee for making the records of notice, issuing the certificate of marriage, and forwarding the [$38] $43 portion of the marriage license fee. Effective Date. July 1, 2015.

NHVRIN Abstract Table Data conversion project.

NHVRIN Abstract Table: (records keyed into NHVRIN by local registrars at the time of record issuance) 61K Records not found in the NHVRIN Central Database. Accessible to the place of event local registrars ONLY. 92% (61k of the 57k) of the Abstract Table records match DVRA’s RBASE electronic index Resulting in a Data upload directly into NHVRIN 5K records will require additional review from DVRA staff before uploading into NHVRIN data files. (adoptions, Legitimations or gross keying errors)

NHVRIN Legacy Records Conversion project.

Record Type Number of Records requiring data entry Birth Records: 1982 until present Death Records 1990 until present Marriage Records 1989 until present Divorce Records: 1990 to within 6 months of present Records Birth ,94580 Death ,36850 Marriage ,75355 Divorce ,46536 Total 913,531

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Division of Vital Records Administration Selected Statistics

Opposite Gender Marriages Reported during 2014 number of heterosexual marriages9054 youngest female16 youngest male18 oldest female90 oldest male94 largest age difference (older male)37 largest age difference (older female)32 greatest number of marriages (female)8 greatest number of marriages (male)7

Same Gender Marriages Reported during 2014 number of marriages491 male marriages156 female marriages335 youngest male spouse20 youngest female spouse18 oldest male spouse77 oldest female spouse90 largest male age difference31 largest female age difference26 greatest number of marriages (male spouse)3 greatest number of marriages (female spouse)5

Births Reported during 2014 youngest mother14 youngest father15 oldest mother47 oldest father69 heaviest newborn (in lbs) lightest newborn (in lbs) and still living at time of filing 1.08 highest birth order3

Deaths Reported during 2014 oldest male decedent104 oldest female decedent109 average age – natural death77 average age – accidental death58 average age – suicide46 average age – homicide42

Weight gain during pregnancy yeargain in lbs

Thank You On behalf of the Staff at the Division of Vital Records Administration, we want to thank you all for your continued attention to the details necessary when filing or issuing the legal documents with which we are entrusted. Stephen Wurtz, State Registrar & Director Division of Vital Records Administration Department of State