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1
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Requirements for a valid marriage

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Procedural: license and ceremony

State of mind: capacity to consent and intent

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Limitations on ability to marry

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  1. Underage
  2. Too closely related
  3. Same sex
  4. Lacking in mental or physical capacity
  5. Commission of bigamy or polygamy
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Reqs for Premarital contracts

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  • Conscionable
  • In writing
  • Signed by both parties

There must be:

  • Full and fair disclosure of assets/debts/etc
  • Capacity
  • No duress
  • No fraud
  • No overreaching (look for independent counsel)
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Spousal Duties/Responsibilities

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  • Fiduciary duty to the community
  • Support of the other
  • Payment of the other’s obligations
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Annulment

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For VOID marriage (that were invalid or illegal- bigamy, incest)

For VOIDABLE marriages (underage, impotence, duress, fraud)

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Grounds for divorce

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No Fault- Irretrievable breakdown of marriage (incompatibility)

Fault- Adultery, abandonment, cruel and inhuman treatment

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Jurisdiction for Divorce

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At least one party must be domiciled in NM (6mos plus intent to stay)

Petitioner must SERVE respondent

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Requirements for Contents of Verified Petition for Dissolution of Marriage

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  • Allege that marriage is irretrievably broken (cite irreconcilable differences)
  • Include Vitals of marriage (date, date of sep, request arrangements for division of property)
  • Information on children, pregnancy, custody and child support
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Mutual Restraining Order/Temporary Domestic Order

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  • Neither party may mess with property
  • No harassment
  • No taking the kids out of state
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How to complete the divorce process

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Marital Settlement Agreement and Parenting Plan (or trial)

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Property Classified as Separate Property

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  • Acquired prior to marriage
  • Acquired by gift, bequest, devise, or descent during marriage
  • Acquired after entry of a decree of divorce or formal decree of legal separation
  • Declared separate by court order
  • Designated as separate by written agreement of partners
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Transmutation

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The process by which property changes status (SP to CP, one Sp to the other’s SP, CP to SP)

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How to prove transmutation?

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Happens by:

  • Gift
  • Commingling, or
  • Agreement

Must be proved by CLEAR AND CONVINCING evidence (except for deeds- preponderance)

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Accounting funds to find out SP or CP

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Tracing

If all mixed up and can’t be traced: commingling

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What happens when funds are traced and there’s no transmutation?

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Equitable lien to reimburse community (or partner)

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Quasi CP

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Property acquired like CP would be in NM, but was acquired in a different state (so long as both spouses are domiciled in NM)

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Criteria for Maintenance

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Spousal support will be awarded based on

  • Need
  • Ability

Weight these factors:

  • Age, health, means of support
  • Current/future earning capacity
  • Good faith efforts for self support
  • Need
  • Duration of marriage
  • Liquid and non-liquid assets
  • Debt
  • Premarital agreements

Misconduct is NOT a factor

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Termination of maintenance

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Upon death/remarriage unless stated otherwise

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Types of custody

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Legal: to make decisions about child (religious, educational, medical care)
Physical: Possession and control of child

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When is Joint Custody Appropriate?

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  • Both parents are FIT
  • Both parents AGREE on joint custody
  • Parents COMMUNICATE and COOPERATE
  • Child PREFERS joint (over 14)
  • Homes are in CLOSE PROXIMITY
  • Homes are SIMILAR
  • JC does NOT HURT child’s development
  • Parents PHYSICALLY ABLE to carry out order

Won’t be granted if parents are HOSTILE

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Standard to Award Custody and WISH factors

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Best interests of the child

Wishes of the child
Interaction and Integration of child into community
Sharing upbringing and decisions related to child
Health, physical and mental, of the parties

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Guardian Ad Litem

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Separate attorney from that of the parents to represent the best interests of the child

23
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How to modify a custody order?

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By motion

Standard: Changed Circumstances

24
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UCCJEA

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Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act

Court can enter or modify custody order if that court is in the child’s HOME STATE

Jurisdiction: Child’s home state- 6mos prior to action

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Exceptions to the “home state rule”

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Court can enter custody orders even if not child’s home state IF:

    • No other state has home state jurisdiction, AND
    • Child and one parent, has a significant connection with state, AND
    • Substantial evidence is available in the state
  2. All other states decline jurisdiction
  3. No other state has jurisdiction under home state or significant connections tests
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Continuing Exclusive Jurisdiction

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A state administering custody proceedings has exclusive continuing jurisdiction if:

  • Child or child + one parents continues to have significant connections and there is substantial evidence in state, OR
  • Child and child’s parent still resides there
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Temporary Emergency Jurisdiction

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Courts have TEJ over child custody proceedings in the case of ABUSE or ABANDONMENT

28
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Enforcement of another state’s custody order

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  • Register order in the state
  • Can get expedited enforcement
  • Custody warrant if child is IMMINENTLY LIKELY to suffer serious PHYSICAL HARM or be REMOVED from state
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NM recognition of Grandparent’s rights

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Rule: NM protects grandparents’ rights in dissolution proceedings, legal sep proceedings, or paternity proceedings

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Rights of Grandparents

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Court SHALL grant reasonable visitation privileges to a GP of a minor child, not in conflict with child’s education or prior established visitation/time-sharing privileges

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Factors to consider when granting visitation rights to grandparents

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  • Best interests of child
  • Prior interaction b/w child and GP
  • Prior interaction b/w GP and parents of child
  • Present relationship b/w GP and child
  • Timesharing and visitation arrangements already in place
  • Effect that visitation will have on child
  • GP’s convictions for physical, emotional, or sexual ABUSE
  • if GP was ever child’s full time caregiver
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When may a GP petition for visitation rights

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  • One or both parents is deceased
  • If child resided with GP for at least 3mos, starting when child was under 6 yrs old and was later removed
  • If child resided with GP for at least 6mos, starting when child was over 6 yrs old and was later removed
33
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Child Support (In general)

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  • Each parent has duty to support
  • Child support ends on child’s death or emancipation, or through HS
  • Nonpayment cannot be used to deny visitation
  • Cannot be deducted for tax
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Child Support Guidelines

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  • Gross income
  • timesharing arrangement
  • Number of children
  • Extraordinary expenses
35
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How can a parent modify child support

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ONLY prospectively, based on CHANGED CIRCUMSTANCES (need of child or ability to pay)

36
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Means of Enforcing Child Support

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  • Civil or Criminal contempt
  • Judgment against nonpayer
  • Seizure of real estate
  • Attachment of wages/tax returns
  • Attorneys’ fees
37
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Uniform Interstate Family Support Act

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  • Adopted EVERYWHERE

- Simplifies collection of child support when parties live in different states

38
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Contracts b/w unmarried cohabitants

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  • ENFORCEABLE (unless sex = only consideration)
  • Implied Ks not likely to be enforced
  • Must be EXPRESS for property division
39
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How do unmarried cohabitants recover in absence of EXPRESS contract?

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Court may grant equitable distribution of property based on constructive trust, or recover in quasi-contract.

40
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Importance of Establishing Paternity

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  • Must be established before support imposed or visitation rights granted
  • Determined by DNA testing
41
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In order for unwed father to establish rights

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  • Must be willing to ASSUME custody
  • Publicly acknowledge paternity
  • Take steps to establish legal responsibility of child
  • Demonstrate commitment to child
42
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Nuances for nonmarital children

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  • Immigration preference for marital kids ok

- Have all other rights of married kids

43
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How dad becomes a lawful father

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  • Judicial decree establishing paternity
  • marries mom
  • holds out child as biological
  • consent to be married on birth cert
44
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For what can children be held liable?

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  • Contracts for NECESSITIES (can’t disaffirm)
  • Torts
  • Deliquency
45
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How can parental rights be terminated?

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  • Consent OR
  • Involuntary Termination WITH NOTICE

New birth certificate upon adoption

46
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Preference for kinship guardians

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When parents can’t/won’t give care, preference for care from family

47
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Definition of Kinship

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Relationship b/w child and:

  • Relative
  • god parent
  • member of tribe or clan
  • adult with whom child has had significant bond
48
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Burden of Proof for Kinship Guardianship

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Clear and convincing evidence

NAs: Beyond a reasonable doubt

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