A. An obligor may contest the validity or enforcement of an income-withholding order issued in another state and received directly by an employer in this state by registering the order in a tribunal of this state and filing a contest to that order as provided in Sections 40-6A-601 through 40-6A-616 NMSA 1978, or otherwise contesting the order in the same manner as if the order had been issued by a tribunal of this state.B. The obligor shall give notice of the contest to:
(1) a support enforcement agency providing services to the obligee;(2) each employer that has directly received an income-withholding order relating to the obligor; and(3) the person designated to receive payments in the income-withholding order or, if no person is designated, to the obligee.
NMS § 40-6A-506
Laws 1997, ch. 9, § 16; 2005, ch. 166, § 33; 2011, ch. 159, § 36.Amended by 2011, c. 159,s. 36, 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
