2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 40 - Domestic Affairs
Article 11A - New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act
Article 7 - CHILD OF ASSISTED REPRODUCTION
Section 40-11A-706 - Effect of dissolution of marriage or withdrawal of consent. (2009)


NM Stat § 40-11A-706 (2013) What's This?

40-11A-706. Effect of dissolution of marriage or withdrawal of consent.  (2009) 
A.   If a marriage is dissolved before placement of eggs, sperm or embryos, the former spouse is not a parent of the resulting child unless the former spouse consented in a signed record that if assisted reproduction were to occur after a divorce the former spouse would be a parent of the child.
B.   Unless otherwise agreed in a signed record, the consent of a woman or a man to assisted reproduction may be withdrawn by that person in a signed record delivered to the other person at any time before placement of eggs, sperm or embryos if the placement has not occurred within one year after the consent.  A person who withdraws consent pursuant to this section is not a parent of the resulting child.
History: Laws 2009, ch. 215, § 7-706.

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