No deed shall convey or encumber the homestead right, except a mortgage made at the time of purchase to secure payment of the purchase money, unless it is executed by the owner and wife or husband, if any, with the formalities required for the conveyance of land.
N.H. Rev. Stat. Ann. § 480:5-a
Encumbering
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case 12 F. Supp. 2d 205 - Verdolino v. Anderson (1998)
Most recently applied in In Re Labonte (July 2005)
Source. 1961, 96:2, eff
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: New Hampshire General Court. Reproduced from public-domain New Hampshire statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.