State in the Interest of Jane Doe

Two questions of law were reserved and transferred pursuant to RSA 502-A:17-a (Supp. 1977) by the Goffstown District Court (Orcutt, J.). The questions, which arose in the course of hearings on a neglected-child petition filed under RSA ch. 169, are as follows: (1) whether the lower court erred in entering a final order requiring the State to pay all but seventy dollars of the neglected child’s maintenance and support expenses at Greater Manchester Group Homes, Inc., and (2) whether the court erred in vacating the order and entering a temporary order imposing the same requirements on the…