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(1) To amend a birth certificate, application may be made by both parents, the legal guardian or court ordered custodian, the registrant if 18 years of age or over, a legal representative for the registrant or parents, or the individual responsible for filing the original certificate.

If the mother was unmarried at the time of the child's birth and no other name is listed on the certificate of birth as the father, the biological father's name may be added to the birth certificate by filing an Acknowledgment of Paternity Statement form. We also have a Spanish Version of the form available.

? The statutory presumption that a man is presumed to be the natural father of a child if the man openly holds out the child as the man's natural child and has established a personal, financial or custodial relationship with the child applies to women.

A court order will be required in order to make any changes to the record. Normally an attorney is needed for this type of action. If the mother was married to another man during the child's conception or birth and there is no father listed on the child's certificate, a three-way paternity affidavit can be filled out.

Both parents must fill out and sign the form in the presence of a notary public provided by the hospital. This is the quickest and easiest way to establish paternity when the mother and father are not married. The man that signs the DH-511 form is the legal father as soon as the form is complete.

In New Mexico, both parents of a minor child have parental and custody rights and responsibilities. In the event of a divorce, or if the parents were never married in the first place, custody needs to be formally established.

Is New Mexico a ?Mother's State?? Mothers and fathers have the exact same rights when it comes to divorce and custody in New Mexico, however, there are some biases that remain in the courtroom towards mothers. The reason this bias started was from a court precedent called ?the tender year's doctrine?.

Additionally, New Mexico is not a father's state. New Mexico is a child's state. Specifically, custody and visitation issues are always based on the child's best interests. NM judges do not decide issues based on a mother or father's best interests.

Fathers have the right to establish custody and visitation. In doing so, a father must show that he is the child's biological father. Nevertheless, custody and visitation are always based on a child's best interests ? not a father's rights.