Center for Family Justice
Centerfor Family Justice
Working to preserve the right to parent for single-parent and blended families
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New Mexico Judges Making Law?
According to the U.S. Constitution, there is a separation of powers among the three branches of government: executive, judicial, and legislative. As most of us learned in high school civics classes, it is the task of the legislative branch to make law; the judicial branch upholds the law. However, here in New Mexico we essentially have a one party government because the judicial branch either directly changes our law or it goes through other channels to create its own laws as Rules.

* In 2000 when Judge Deborah Davis Walker was Head Judge of the Bernalillo County Family Court, she issued a memorandum to override law, refusing attachments to pleadings in family court cases. To this day the family court clerks refuse attachments to pleadings without special permission from a judge. New Mexico local rules for Bernalillo County clearly provide for such attachments.
 

Do you have information of concern or have you filed a complaint to an official regarding a New Mexico judge? CFJ would like to know! Please contact us via email info@family-justice.org class telephone (505) 319-3486, or postal mail at P.O. Box 21996, Albuquerque, NM 87154. Help us root out problem persons in the court system!

last updated on October 7, 2007
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