RSA 490-J:5 Beginning and Concluding Collaborative Law Process.

I. A collaborative law process begins when the parties sign a collaborative law participation agreement.
II. A court shall not order a party to participate in a collaborative law process over that party's objection.
III. A collaborative law process is concluded by a:
(a) Resolution of a collaborative matter as evidenced by a signed agreement;
(b) Resolution of a part of the collaborative matter, evidenced by a signed agreement, in which the parties agree that the remaining parts of the matter will not be resolved in the process; or
(c) Termination of the process.
IV. A collaborative law process terminates:
(a) When a party gives written notice to other parties that the process is ended.
(b) Except as otherwise provided by paragraph VII