Establishment of parent-child relationship

A. The mother-child relationship is established between a woman and a child by: (1) the woman's having given birth to the child; (2) an adjudication of the woman's maternity; or (3) adoption of the child by the woman. B. The father-child relationship is established between a man and a child by: (1) an unrebutted presumption of the man's paternity of the child pursuant to Section 2-204 of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act; (2) an effective acknowledgment of paternity by the man pursuant to Article 3 of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act, unless the acknowledgment has been rescinded or successfully challenged; (3) an adjudication of the man's paternity; (4) adoption of the child by the man; or (5) the man's having consented to assisted reproduction by a woman pursuant to Article 7 of the New Mexico Uniform Parentage Act that resulted in the birth of the child. History: Laws 2009, ch. 215, § 2-201.