Parental status of deceased person

NMSA 1978, § 40-11A-707 — under Article 11A.

NMSA 1978, § 40-11A-707

If a person who consented in a record to be a parent by assisted reproduction dies before placement of eggs, sperm or embryos, the deceased person is not a parent of the resulting child unless the deceased spouse consented in a signed record that if assisted reproduction were to occur after death, the deceased person would be a parent of the child. History: Laws 2009, ch. 215, § 7-707.