N.M. Stat. § 40-6A-507

Current through 2024, ch. 69
Section 40-6A-507 - Administrative enforcement of orders
A. A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both, issued in another state, or a foreign support order may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this state.
B. Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure authorized by the law of this state to enforce a support order or an income-withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not contest administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests the validity or administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement agency shall register the order pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.

NMS § 40-6A-507

Laws 1997, ch. 9, § 17; 2005, ch. 166, § 34; 2011, ch. 159, § 37.
Amended by 2011, c. 159,s. 37, 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