A. N.M. Stat. Ann. Chapter 32A, Article 3B may be cited as the “Family in Need of Court-Ordered Services Act”.

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B. The Family in Need of Court-Ordered Services Act shall be interpreted and construed to effectuate the following expressed legislative purposes:

(1)     through court intervention, to provide services for a family in need of services when voluntary services have been exhausted; and

(2)     to recognize that many instances of truancy and running away by a child are symptomatic of a family in need of services and that in some family situations the child and parent are unable to share a residence.