N.M. Stat. § 42-6-11
[Joint owners; share in expenses of suit; lien on property
of co-owners; interest; no exemption.]
Whenever any joint owner of real estate, whether claimed by private land grant or
otherwise, shall bring suit to establish the title thereto in any court for the benefit of
himself and other owners of such real estate, and such suit shall be favorably
determined, then in that case the just and reasonable expenses incurred in the
prosecution of such suits, including reasonable attorney's fees, actually expended by
him, shall be and remain a charge against the real property so affected of such co-
owners, with lien in proportion to the several amounts of land claimed by each, and
such proportionate charge shall be collected, with interest at the rate of twelve percent
per annum additional, as a charge or lien upon the real property of such co-owners
which was beneficially affected by such suit, and none of such real estate so beneficially
affected shall be exempt from said charge or lien by virtue of any execution or forced
sale exemption law in force in this state.