A. Subject to assessment of costs pursuant to Article 6 of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act, the cost of initial genetic testing shall be advanced:

1. (1) by a support-enforcement agency in a proceeding in which the support-enforcement agency is providing services;
2. (2) by the person who made the request;
3. (3) as agreed by the parties; or

4. (4) as ordered by the district court.

   B. In cases in which the cost is advanced by the support-enforcement agency, the agency may seek reimbursement from a man who is rebuttably identified as the father.

History: Laws 2009, ch. 215, § 5-506.

ANNOTATIONS

Effective dates. — Laws 2009, ch. 215, § 20 made the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act effective January 1, 2010.