These regulations provide a process to protect the parental rights of fathers who affirmatively assume responsibility to children they have fathered and to expedite the adoption of children whose biological fathers have not assumed responsibility for their children. A listing in the registry does not replace or supersede the acknowledgment of paternity provisions of the vital statistics regulations (7 NMAC 2.2) [now 7.2.2 NMAC].
N.M. Admin. Code § 7.2.3.2