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40-11A-705: Limitation on husband's dispute of paternity.

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  1. Chapter 40 - Domestic Affairs
  2. ARTICLE 11A New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act

A. Except as otherwise provided in Subsection B of this section, the husband of a wife who gives birth to a child by means of assisted reproduction shall not challenge his paternity of the child unless:

(1) within two years after learning of the birth of the child, he commences a proceeding to adjudicate his paternity; and

(2) the district court finds that he did not consent to the assisted reproduction, before or after birth of the child.

B. A proceeding to adjudicate paternity may be maintained at any time if the district court determines that:

(1) the husband did not provide sperm for or, before or after the birth of the child, consent to assisted reproduction by his wife;

(2) the husband and the mother of the child have not cohabited since the probable time of assisted reproduction; and

(3) the husband never openly held out the child as his own.

C. The limitation provided in this section applies to a marriage dissolved or declared invalid after assisted reproduction.

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