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2013 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 40 - Domestic Affairs
Article 4 - Dissolution of Marriage
Section 40-4-19 - Enforcement of decree by attachment, garnishment, execution or contempt proceedings. (1979)


NM Stat § 40-4-19 (2013) What's This?

40-4-19. Enforcement of decree by attachment, garnishment, execution or contempt proceedings. (1979) 
Nothing in Sections 40-4-12 through 40-4-19 NMSA 1978 shall prevent a person or persons entitled to benefits of any decree for alimony or support from enforcing the decree by attachment, garnishment, execution or contempt proceedings as is now provided by statute, except that the filing of an affidavit that the defendant has no property within the state subject to execution to satisfy the judgment shall not be a prerequisite to the issuance of a garnishment.   
  History: 1941 Comp., § 25-724, enacted by Laws 1947, ch. 16, § 9; 1953 Comp., § 22-7-21; Laws 1973, ch. 319, § 12; 1979, ch. 252, § 1. 

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