2021 New Mexico Statutes
Chapter 40 - Domestic Affairs
Article 11A - New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act
Article 2 - PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIP
Section 40-11A-203 - Consequences of establishment of parentage.
Unless parental rights are terminated or extinguished by relinquishment and decree of adoption pursuant to the Children's Code [Chapter 32A NMSA 1978], a parent-child relationship established pursuant to the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act applies for all purposes, except determinations of parental rights pursuant to the Children's Code or as otherwise provided by other law of New Mexico.
History: Laws 2009, ch. 215, § 2-203.
ANNOTATIONSEffective dates. — Laws 2009, ch. 215, § 20 made the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act effective January 1, 2010.
New evidence of paternity. — Where both a default judgment and a subsequent stipulated judgment determined that respondent was the child's parent and was obligated to pay child support; respondent had requested a paternity test when respondent was served with the petition to determine the child's parentage; respondent signed the stipulated judgment to obtain a driver's license; a paternity test that was administered several years after the stipulated judgment showed that respondent was not the child's biological parent; the child's biological parent had falsely represented to the human service department that respondent was the child's biological parent, but at a hearing several years later, the biological parent named another person as the child's biological parent; the child's biological parents had been deported to Mexico; the child lived with the child's grandparent; and respondent had no personal relationship with the child, under the circumstances, the determination that respondent was not the child's biological parent after respondent's admission that respondent was the child's parent qualified as an extraordinary circumstance under Rule 1-060 NMRA sufficient to permit relief from respondent's obligations to pay accrued and prospective child support. State ex rel. Human Services Dep't v. Rawls, 2012-NMCA-052, 279 P.3d 766.
