  We give a general decomposition of the h -> VF amplitude where V={W,Z} and F
is a generic leptonic or hadronic final state, in the standard model (SM), and
in the context of a general effective field theory. The differential
distributions for F=l^+l^-, l nu (l =e, mu) are reported, and we show how such
distributions can be used to determine modified Higgs couplings that cannot be
directly extracted from a global fit to Higgs signal strengths. We also
demonstrate how rare h -> VP decays, where P is a single hadron, with SM rates
in the 10^{-5} range, can be used to provide complementary information on the
couplings of the newly discovered Higgs-like scalar and are an interesting
probe of the vacuum structure of the theory.
