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. History: Laws 1997, ch. 9, § 17; 2005, ch. 166, § 34; 2011, ch. 159, § 37. ANNOTATIONSCompiler'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 — Laws 2016, ch. 61, § 1 repealed Laws 2011, ch. 159, §§ 69 and 70, an applicability clause and contingent effective date, respectively, effective May 18, 2016, thereby making Laws 2011, ch.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. s 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 foreign support orders within the scope of Subsection A. The 2005 amendment, effective June 17, 2005, added 'or support enforcement agency' to Subsection (a).
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