RSA 167:14 Claims and Liens.

I. The estate of every recipient and the estate of a recipient's spouse, if any, owned severally or as joint tenants, shall be liable for all financial old age assistance, aid to the needy blind, or aid to the permanently and totally disabled granted to the recipient; provided, however, that the estate of a recipient's spouse shall be liable only for such financial assistance as was granted to the recipient during the time that the recipient and the recipient's spouse were neither legally separated nor divorced. After providing all owners of the real property known to the department with prior notice and an opportunity for a hearing, the commissioner of the department of health and human services shall file with the register of deeds of the county in which the recipient, or the spou