N.M. Stat. § 40-11A-102
Definitions.
As used in the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act:
A. "acknowledged father" means a man who has established a father-child
relationship pursuant to Article 3 of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act;
B. "adjudicated father" means a man who has been adjudicated by a court of
competent jurisdiction to be the father of a child;
C. "alleged father" means a man who alleges himself to be, or is alleged to be, the
genetic father or a possible genetic father of a child, but whose paternity has not been
determined. "Alleged father" does not include:
(1)
a presumed father;
(2)
a man whose parental rights have been terminated or declared not to
exist; or
(3)
a male donor;
D. "assisted reproduction" means a method of causing pregnancy other than sexual
intercourse. "Assisted reproduction" includes:
(1)
intrauterine insemination;
(2)
donation of eggs;
(3)
donation of embryos;
(4)
in-vitro fertilization and transfer of embryos; and
(5)
intracytoplasmic sperm injection;
E. "bureau" means the vital records and health statistics bureau of the department
of health;
F. "child" means a person of any age whose parentage may be determined
pursuant to the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act;
G. "commence" means to file the initial pleading seeking an adjudication of
parentage in district court;
H. "determination of parentage" means the establishment of the parent-child
relationship by the signing of a valid acknowledgment of paternity pursuant to Article 3
of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act or adjudication by the court;
I. "donor" means a person who produces eggs or sperm used for assisted
reproduction, whether or not for consideration. "Donor" does not include:
(1)
a husband who provides sperm, or a wife who provides eggs, to be used
for assisted reproduction by the wife;
(2)
a woman who gives birth to a child by means of assisted reproduction; or
(3)
a parent pursuant to Article 7 of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act;
J. "ethnic or racial group" means, for purposes of genetic testing, a recognized
group that a person identifies as all or part of the person's ancestry or that is so
identified by other information;
K. "genetic testing" means an analysis of genetic markers to exclude or identify a
man as the father or a woman as the mother of a child. "Genetic testing" includes an
analysis of one or a combination of the following:
(1)
deoxyribonucleic acid; and
(2)
blood-group antigens, red-cell antigens, human-leukocyte antigens, serum
enzymes, serum proteins or red-cell enzymes;
L. "man" means a male person of any age;
M. "parent" means a person who has established a parent-child relationship
pursuant to Section 2-201 of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act;
N. "parent-child relationship" means the legal relationship between a child and a
parent of the child, including the mother-child relationship and the father-child
relationship;
O. "paternity index" means the likelihood of paternity calculated by computing the
ratio between:
(1)
the likelihood that the tested man is the father, based on the genetic
markers of the tested man, mother and child, conditioned on the hypothesis that the
tested man is the father of the child; and
(2)
the likelihood that the tested man is not the father, based on the genetic
markers of the tested man, mother and child, conditioned on the hypothesis that the
tested man is not the father of the child and that the father is of the same ethnic or racial
group as the tested man;
P. "presumed father" means a man who, by operation of law pursuant to Section 2-
204 of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act, is recognized as the father of a child
until that status is rebutted or confirmed in a judicial proceeding;
Q. "probability of paternity" means the measure, for the ethnic or racial group to
which the alleged father belongs, of the probability that the man in question is the father
of the child, compared with a random, unrelated man of the same ethnic or racial group,
expressed as a percentage incorporating the paternity index and a prior probability;
R. "record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is
stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form;
S. "signatory" means a person who signs or otherwise authenticates a record and is
bound by its terms;
T. "state" means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico,
the United States Virgin Islands or any territory or insular possession subject to the
jurisdiction of the United States; and
U. "support-enforcement agency" means the human services department [health
care authority department] designated pursuant to Section 27-2-27 NMSA 1978 as the
single state agency for the enforcement of child and spousal support obligations
pursuant to Title IV D of the federal Social Security Act and any other public official or
agency authorized to seek:
(1)
enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support;
(2)
establishment or modification of child support;
(3)
determination of parentage; or
(4)
location of child-support obligors and their income and assets.