2021 New Mexico Statutes
Part 3 - Hearings and Adjudication
Section 40-11A-631 - Rules for adjudication of paternity.

The district court shall apply the following rules to adjudicate the paternity of a child:
A. the paternity of a child having a presumed, acknowledged or adjudicated father may be disproved only by admissible results of genetic testing excluding that man as the father of the child or identifying another man as the father of the child;
B. unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to rebut other results of genetic testing, a man identified as the father of a child pursuant to Section 5-505 of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act shall be adjudicated the father of the child;
C. if the district court finds that genetic testing pursuant to Section 5-505 of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act neither identifies nor excludes a man as the father of a child, the district court shall not dismiss the proceeding. In that event, the results of genetic testing and other evidence are admissible to adjudicate the issue of paternity; and
D. unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to rebut other results of genetic testing, a man excluded as the father of a child by genetic testing shall be adjudicated not to be the father of the child.
History: Laws 2009, ch. 215, § 6-631.
Effective dates. — Laws 2009, ch. 215, § 20 made the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act effective January 1, 2010.
Law reviews. — For article, "Separation of Powers and the Judicial Rule-Making Power in New Mexico: The Need for Prudential Restraints," see 15 N.M.L. Rev. 407 (1985).
For annual Survey of New Mexico Family Law, see 17 N.M.L. Rev. 291 (1987).

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