40-6A-704: Initiation by human services department [health care authority department] of support proceeding under convention.

A. In a support proceeding pursuant to Sections 40-6A-701 through 40-6A-713 NMSA 1978, the human services department [health care authority department] of this state shall:

(1) transmit and receive applications; and

(2) initiate or facilitate the institution of a proceeding regarding an application in a tribunal of this state.

B. The following support proceedings are available to an obligee pursuant to the convention:

(1) recognition or recognition and enforcement of a foreign support order;

(2) enforcement of a support order issued or recognized in this state;

(3) establishment of a support order if there is no existing order, including, if necessary, determination of parentage of a child;

(4) establishment of a support order if recognition of a foreign support order is refused pursuant to Paragraph (2), (4) or (9) of Subsection B of Section 40-6A-708 NMSA 1978;

(5) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and

(6) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

C. The following support proceedings are available pursuant to the convention to an obligor against which there is an existing support order:

(1) recognition of an order suspending or limiting enforcement of an existing support order of a tribunal of this state;

(2) modification of a support order of a tribunal of this state; and

(3) modification of a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country.

D. A tribunal of this state may not require security, bond or deposit, however described, to guarantee the payment of costs and expenses in proceedings pursuant to the convention.