N.M. Stat. § 40-6A-301

Current through 2024, ch. 69

Section 40-6A-301 - Proceedings under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

A. Except as otherwise provided in the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, Sections 40-6A-301 through 40-6A-319 NMSA 1978 apply to all proceedings pursuant to that act.

B. An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country that has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.

NMS § 40-6A-301

Laws 1994, ch. 107, § 301; 2005, ch. 166, § 13; 2011, ch. 159, § 15.

Amended by 2011, c. 159,s. 15, eff. the later of the date that the United States deposits the instrument of ratification for the Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance with the Hague conference on private international law or 1/1/2012