New Hampshire Court Search Fees Increase Significantly

We learned that the NH Administrative Office of Courts, through administrative rule, is mandating a significant increase in many court fees. Thanks to the folks at County House Research Inc. in Philadelphia for alerting us to this situation.

The researchers have passed on a considerable increase to all their clients (CRAs, Background Screening Firms).  They have raised the per search fees for all searches in NH to 20 per name per court and there are a minimum of two courts in each county.  Some counties have three courts.

On a side note, this seems to be happening at quite a few counties and states around the country, especially those who are hit by the economic down turn.  I have also noticed states that have not been looking at raising their access fees are those that that are more fically responsible and not in trouble, like Texas for example.  We’ll have to see what shakes out in the near future, but you can probably make a safe bet that there will more access fee raises in the near future.  This is another sign that the small and medium businesses in america have to take the hit for capital greed, but thats another story.  Lets not mix politics and business or ….  has that happend already?