N.M. Stat. § 40-6A-301
Proceedings under the Uniform Interstate Family
Support Act.
A. Except as otherwise provided in the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act,
Sections 40-6A-301 through 40-6A-319 NMSA 1978 apply to all proceedings pursuant
to that act.
B. An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a
proceeding authorized pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act by filing a
petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a
petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign
country that has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.