In responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of two or more child support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of this state shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
History: Laws 1994, ch. 107, § 208; 2005, ch. 166, § 9; 2011, ch. 159, § 11.
Compiler's notes. — Laws 2016, ch. 61, § 1 repealed Laws 2011, ch. 159, §§ 69 and 70, an applicability clause and contingent effective date, respectively, effective May 18, 2016, thereby making Laws 2011, ch. 159, §§ 1 through 68, effective May 18, 2016. For provisions of Laws 2011, ch. 159, §§ 69 and 70, see compiler's note to 40-6A-100 NMSA 1978.
The 2011 amendment, effective May 18, 2016, included tribunals of foreign countries within the scope of this section.
The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, deleted "multiple" in two places.
Structure 2021 New Mexico Statutes
Article 6A - Uniform Interstate Family Support
Part C - RECONCILIATION WITH ORDERS OF OTHER STATES
Section 40-6A-207 - Determination of controlling child-support order.
Section 40-6A-208 - Child support orders for two or more obligees.
Section 40-6A-209 - Credit for payments.
Section 40-6A-211 - Continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify spousal-support order.