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If the other parent and I make an agreement about custody, will the judge accept our agreement?
If you and the other parent make an agreement about temporary or final custody, it will be attached to and filed with the official petition for custody. You and the other parent might also make an agreement while the custody case is pending, The judge will generally enter an order that will grant whatever you and the other parent have agreed upon, unless the agreement is not in the child’s best interests.1
1 N.M. Stat. § 40-4-9.1(D)
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