RULES OF THE PROBATE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 

    
    No Petition shall be presented to, or heard by, the Court until filed with the Register's office, the applicable entry fee paid, and the petition is entered upon the docket.

    For the purpose of compliance with any time deadlines or statutes of limitation, the terms "filing" and "entry" shall have the same meaning and shall be used interchangeably. Whenever any document is received by the Court and time-stamped as received, or the document is entered in the Court's case management system, the earlier of the two shall be accepted as filing or entry date.