Legal Opinion
Aeda v. Aeda
New Mexico Supreme Court
Decided September 20, 2013No. 34,291; Docket No. 31,182PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
BUSTAMANTE, Judge.
As a matter of first impression we are asked to decide whether termination of parental rights ends a parent’s obligation to make child support payments imposed in a divorce decree. We conclude that a termination of parental rights severs the parent-child relationship completely — including the support obligation. As a result we reverse the district court’s order.1
I. BACKGROUND
Maria Magdalena Aeda (Mother) and Osamah Aeda (Father) were married in 1984 and divorced in 1990. They had two children during the marriage. The divorce decree ordered Father to pay $600 per…
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