New Hampshire Judgment Collection — Enforce Your Small Claims Award

You won. The court agreed. And then nothing happened.

Thirty days after the judge signed the order, you expected a phone call, a letter, something from the clerk's office. Instead — silence. That is because the New Hampshire Circuit Court does not collect your judgment for you. No clerk contacts the debtor's employer. No sheriff walks into the bank. No automatic garnishment order appears. Every enforcement action — finding what the debtor owns, choosing the right motion, filing the right form, paying the right fee — falls on you.

And the first thing you probably searched for does not exist: New Hampshire does not allow standard civil wage garnishment for ordinary money judgments. If you have been looking for "NH wage garnishment forms," you have been chasing a remedy that only works in other states. Granite State enforcement runs through a different set of tools that most national legal websites never explain correctly.

The Enforcement Roadmap: Every Tool, Form, and Fee in Order

The New Hampshire Judgment Collection Roadmap replaces scattered court pages, confusing e-filing portals, and misleading national guides with a single step-by-step system. It maps every post-judgment enforcement tool to the exact NHJB form number, filing fee, and TurboCourt pathway — so you know what to file, what it costs, and how to file it before you spend a dollar.

This is not a generic overview. Every procedure, deadline, fee amount, and form reference is specific to New Hampshire's Circuit Court District Division, updated for 2026.

What's Inside

• The 30-Day Appeal Window Countdown — exactly when enforcement can start, how to check for appeals, and what a motion for reconsideration does to your timeline
• Written Payment Demand Templates — what to include, what RSA 358-C prohibits you from saying, and how to formalize a voluntary agreement using official court forms (NHJB-2202-DFPe and NHJB-2857-De)
• The Financial Examination — Your Best Asset-Discovery Tool — how a $25 Motion for Periodic Payments under RSA 524:6-a forces the debtor into court to disclose bank accounts, income, and property under oath, and what happens if they do not show up
• Bank Account Attachments (Trustee Process) — the $40 Writ of Trustee Process under RSA 512, identifying the right bank branch, the trustee disclosure process, and which deposits are exempt
• Writs of Execution for Personal Property — when to send the county sheriff, what property is reachable, the $40 court fee, levy costs, and the auction process
• Real Estate Liens — The 20-Year Strategy — recording a Certificate of Judgment ($10) at the Registry of Deeds, priority rules, and why no home sale closes until your lien is satisfied
• The No-Wage-Garnishment Reality — why national guides mislead New Hampshire creditors and how RSA 524:6-a installment orders work instead
• Contempt Enforcement at Zero Filing Fee — what to do when the debtor ignores a payment order or skips a hearing, including the civil arrest warrant procedure
• Post-Judgment Interest Tables — 5.7% simple annual interest for 2026 under RSA 336:1, with historical rates and a year-by-year calculation ledger
• TurboCourt Form-by-Form Navigation — each post-judgment remedy mapped to the exact e-filing pathway and NHJB form code, so you never pick the wrong drop-down
• Complete Exemption Reference — every category of protected property under RSA 511:2, including the $400,000 homestead exemption, so you know which assets are reachable before you file
• Printable Worksheets and Payment Ledger — nine fillable PDFs: Enforcement Decision Flowchart, Collection Cost Tracker, Post-Judgment Interest Calculator, Payment Tracking Ledger, Hearing Preparation Checklist, Cost-Benefit Calculator, Enforcement Action Tracker, Debtor Asset Worksheet, and Written Payment Demand Templates

Who This Is For

• You won a judgment in New Hampshire small claims court and the debtor has not paid
• Your 30-day appeal window expired and you received no instructions from the court
• You are a landlord recovering unpaid rent, a contractor owed for finished work, or a small business owner collecting on an unpaid invoice
• You searched for wage garnishment and discovered New Hampshire does not offer it
• You want to understand every enforcement option and its cost before spending money on the wrong motion

Why Not Just Use the Court's Free Website?

You should. The New Hampshire Judicial Branch publishes the rules, the forms, and the fee schedules at courts.nh.gov — and every official page is worth reading. What the court does not publish is a workflow: which enforcement tool to try first based on what you know about the debtor, how to read the debtor's Statement of Assets and Liabilities to spot hidden income, when a bank attachment makes more sense than a payment motion, or how to calculate whether the sheriff's levy costs are worth it on your judgment amount.

Court clerks are strictly prohibited from recommending strategies or helping you choose forms. Legal aid in New Hampshire (603 Legal Aid, NH Legal Assistance) serves debtor defense — not judgment creditors. The TurboCourt e-filing portal expects you to already know which motion to file before you get to the drop-down menu.

The Roadmap organizes every official tool into a step-by-step sequence, maps each motion to the correct form and e-filing pathway, and includes the 2026 fees and interest rates so you do not have to cross-reference six different pages every time you file. It costs less than a single court re-issuance fee — and one wrong form selection or missed service deadline can cost you $25 or more to correct.

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Start Collecting What You Are Owed

The checklist is free — download it now for a two-page overview of the waiting period, the three primary enforcement tools, and the forms involved. If you want the complete step-by-step process with every form, fee, exemption, and TurboCourt walkthrough, the full Roadmap is available at .