Legal Question in Family Law in New Mexico

Re: Notice to suspend license due to back child support

The easiest option for your friend to exercise is to file a motion and request a hearing at District Court. The people (and computers) at the state agency sometimes make mistakes. However, they will usually try to correct the mistakes if a person can show what appears to be a resonable mistake. The reasonable mistake is that he forgot to put the account number on the money order. The reasonable person who can go into court and show a regular or fairly regular payment history will probably convince a judge when the money order payments without an account number on them fall within a timeperiod where CSED says payments are missing. I am surprised to hear that he can show a payment history and show money orders and the CS legal assistant is not willing to give the credit. However, there could be a variety of reasons why the worker is not or cannot agree to your friend's position.

Filing a motion and asking the court to establish the amount of arrears, if any, is a good way to attack this problem. As a part of the motion ask the court to issue a stay of any suspenion until an arrears amount is established.

Good luck.