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WY Stat § 20-3-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 3 - Desertion of Spouse or Children|Section 20-3-104 - Proving Marriage, Parenthood; Spouses as Witnesses; Disclosure of Confidential Communications; Desertion, Neglect or Refusal to Support.

20-3-104. Proving marriage, parenthood; spouses as witnesses; disclosure of confidential communications; desertion, neglect or refusal to support.| No other or greater evidence is required to prove the marriage of a husband and wife or that the defendant is the father or mother of a child or children than is required to prove such facts in a civil action. In a prosecution under this act no statute or rule of law prohibiting the disclosure of confidential communications between husband and wife shall apply. Both husband and wife are competent witnesses to testify against each other to any relevant matters including the fact of marriage and the parentage of the child or children but neither shall be compelled to give evidence incriminating himself or herself. Proof of the desertion of the wife, child or children in destitute or necessitous circumstances, or of the neglect or refusal to provide for the support and maintenance of the wife, child or children is prima facie evidence that the desertion, neglect or refusal is willful.
WY Stat § 20-4-139 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-139 - Short Title.

20-4-139. Short title.| This act may be cited as the "Uniform Interstate Family Support Act."
WY Stat § 20-4-141 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-141 - Remedies Cumulative; Application of Act to Resident of Foreign Country and Foreign Support Proceeding.

20-4-141. Remedies cumulative; application of act to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding.| (a) Remedies provided by this act are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a foreign support order on the basis of comity.  (b) This act does not:  (i) Provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support order under the law of this state; or  (ii) Grant a tribunal of this state jurisdiction to render judgment or issue an order relating to child custody or visitation in a proceeding under this act.  (c) A tribunal of this state shall apply article 1 of this act and, as applicable, article 2 of this act, to a support proceeding involving:  (i) A foreign support order;  (ii) A foreign tribunal; or  (iii) An obligee, obligor or child residing in a foreign country.  (d) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of article 1 of this act.  (e) Article 2 of this act applies only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of article 2 of this act is inconsistent with article 1 of this act, article 2 of this act controls.
WY Stat § 20-4-142 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-142 - Basis for Jurisdiction Over Nonresident.

20-4-142. Basis for jurisdiction over nonresident.| (a) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual's guardian or conservator if:  (i) The individual is personally served with notice within the state;  (ii) The individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent in a record, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction;  (iii) The individual resided with the child in this state;  (iv) The individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;  (v) The child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;  (vi) The individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse;  (vii) The individual asserted parentage of a child in this state pursuant to the putative father registry created by W.S. 1-22-117 and maintained in this state by the department of family services; or  (viii) There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.  (b) The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection (a) of this section or in any other law of this state may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of this state to modify a child support order of another state unless the requirements of W.S. 20-4-183 are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of W.S. 20-4-197 are met.
WY Stat § 20-4-143 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-143 - Procedure When Exercising Jurisdiction Over Nonresident.

20-4-143. Procedure when exercising jurisdiction over nonresident.| Personal jurisdiction acquired by a tribunal of this state in a proceeding under this act or other law of this state relating to a support order continues as long as a tribunal of this state has continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its order or continuing jurisdiction to enforce its order as provided by W.S. 20-4-146, 20-4-147 and 20-4-196.
WY Stat § 20-4-144 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-144 - Initiating and Responding Tribunal of This State.

20-4-144. Initiating and responding tribunal of this state.| Under this act, a tribunal of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to forward proceedings to a tribunal of another state and as a responding tribunal for proceedings initiated in another state or a foreign country.
WY Stat § 20-4-145 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-145 - Simultaneous Proceedings.

20-4-145. Simultaneous proceedings.| (a) A tribunal of this state may exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed after a pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country only if:  (i) The petition or comparable pleading in this state is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in the other state or the foreign country for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by the other state or the foreign country;  (ii) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in the other state or the foreign country; and  (iii) If relevant, this state is the home state of the child.  (b) A tribunal of this state may not exercise jurisdiction to establish a support order if the petition or comparable pleading is filed before a petition or comparable pleading is filed in another state or a foreign country if:  (i) The petition or comparable pleading in the other state or foreign country is filed before the expiration of the time allowed in this state for filing a responsive pleading challenging the exercise of jurisdiction by this state;  (ii) The contesting party timely challenges the exercise of jurisdiction in this state;  (iii) If relevant, the other state or foreign country is the home state of the child.
WY Stat § 20-4-146 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-146 - Continuing Exclusive Jurisdiction.

20-4-146. Continuing exclusive jurisdiction.| (a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this state has, and shall exercise, continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify its child support order if the order is the controlling order and:  (i) At the time of filing of a request for modification, this state is the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued; or  (ii) Even if this state is not the residence of the obligor, the individual obligee or the child for whose benefit the support order is issued, the parties consent in a record or in open court that the tribunal of this state may continue to exercise jurisdiction to modify its order.  (b) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this state may not exercise continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify the order if:  (i) All the parties who are individuals file consent in a record with the tribunal of this state that a tribunal of another state that has jurisdiction over at least one (1) of the parties, who is an individual or that is located in the state of residence of the child, may modify the order and assume continuing, exclusive jurisdiction; or  (ii) Its order is not the controlling order.  (c) Repealed By Laws 2005, ch. 103, § 3.  (d) If a tribunal of another state has issued a child support order pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act or a law substantially similar to that act which modifies a child support order of a tribunal of this state, tribunals of this state shall recognize the continuing, exclusive jurisdiction of the tribunal of the other state.  (e) A temporary support order issued ex parte or pending resolution of a jurisdictional conflict does not create continuing, exclusive jurisdiction in the issuing tribunal.  (f) Repealed By Laws 2005, ch. 103, § 3.  (g) A tribunal of this state that lacks continuing, exclusive jurisdiction to modify a child support order may serve as an initiating tribunal of another state to modify a support order issued in that state.
WY Stat § 20-4-147 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-147 - Continuing Jurisdiction to Enforce a Child Support Order.

20-4-147. Continuing jurisdiction to enforce a child support order.| (a) A tribunal of this state that has issued a child support order consistent with the law of this state may serve as an initiating tribunal to request a tribunal of another state to enforce:  (i) The order if the order is the controlling order and has not been modified by a tribunal of another state that assumed jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act; or  (ii) A money judgment for arrearages of support and interest on the order accrued before a determination that an order of a tribunal of another state is the controlling order.  (b) A tribunal of this state having continuing jurisdiction over a support order may act as a responding tribunal to enforce the order.  (c) Repealed By Laws 2005, ch. 103, § 3.
WY Stat § 20-4-149 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-149 - Child Support Orders for Two or More Obligees.

20-4-149. Child support orders for two or more obligees.| In responding to registrations or petitions for enforcement of two (2) or more child support orders in effect at the same time with regard to the same obligor and different individual obligees, at least one (1) of which was issued by a tribunal of another state or a foreign country, a tribunal of this state shall enforce those orders in the same manner as if the multiple orders had been issued by a tribunal of this state.
WY Stat § 20-4-150 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-150 - Credit for Payments.

20-4-150. Credit for payments.| A tribunal of this state shall credit amounts collected for a particular period pursuant to any child support order against the amounts owed for the same period under any other child support order for support of the same child issued by a tribunal of this state, another state or a foreign country.
WY Stat § 20-4-151 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-151 - Proceedings Under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.

20-4-151. Proceedings under the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act.| (a) Except as otherwise provided in this act, W.S. 20-4-151 through 20-4-169 apply to all proceedings under this act.  (b) Repealed By Laws 2005, ch. 103, § 3.  (c) An individual petitioner or a support enforcement agency may initiate a proceeding authorized under the act by filing a petition in an initiating tribunal for forwarding to a responding tribunal or by filing a petition or a comparable pleading directly in a tribunal of another state or a foreign country which has or can obtain personal jurisdiction over the respondent.
WY Stat § 20-4-152 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-152 - Proceeding by Minor Parent.

20-4-152. Proceeding by minor parent.| A minor parent, or a guardian or other legal representative of a minor parent, may maintain a proceeding on behalf of, or for the benefit of, the minor's child.
WY Stat § 20-4-153 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-153 - Application of Law of This State.

20-4-153. Application of law of this state.| (a) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a responding tribunal of this state shall:  (i) Apply the procedural and substantive law generally applicable to similar proceedings originating in this state and may exercise all powers and provide all remedies available in those proceedings; and  (ii) Determine the duty of support and the amount payable in accordance with the presumptive child support established under W.S. 20-2-304.
WY Stat § 20-4-154 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-154 - Duties of Initiating Tribunal.

20-4-154. Duties of initiating tribunal.| (a) Upon the filing of a petition authorized by this act, an initiating tribunal of this state shall forward the petition and its accompanying documents:  (i) To the responding tribunal or appropriate support enforcement agency in the responding state; or  (ii) If the identity of the responding tribunal is unknown, to the state information agency of the responding state with a request that they be forwarded to the appropriate tribunal and that receipt be acknowledged.  (b) If requested by the responding tribunal, a tribunal of this state shall issue a certificate or other document and make findings required by the law of the responding state. If the responding tribunal is in a foreign country, upon request the tribunal of this state shall specify the amount of support sought, convert that amount into the equivalent amount in the foreign currency under applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported and provide any other documents necessary to satisfy the requirements of the responding foreign tribunal.
WY Stat § 20-4-155 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-155 - Duties and Power of Responding Tribunal.

20-4-155. Duties and power of responding tribunal.| (a) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a petition or comparable pleading from initiating tribunal or directly pursuant to W.S. 20-4-151(c), it shall cause the petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where and when it was filed.  (b) A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent not prohibited by other law, may do one (1) or more of the following:  (i) Establish or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, determine the controlling child support order or determine parentage of a child;  (ii) Order an obligor to comply with a support order, specifying the amount and manner of compliance;  (iii) Order income withholding;  (iv) Determine the amount of any arrearages, and specify a method of payment;  (v) Enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or both;  (vi) Set aside property for satisfaction of the support order;  (vii) Place liens and order execution on the obligor's property;  (viii) Order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed of the obligor's current residential address, electronic mail address, telephone number, employer, address of employment and telephone number at the place of employment;  (ix) Award reasonable attorney's fees and other fees and costs;  (x) Order the obligor to seek appropriate employment by specified methods;  (xi) Award reasonable attorney's fees and other fees and costs;  (xii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 97, § 3.  (xiii) Grant any other available remedy.  (c) A responding tribunal of this state shall include in a support order issued under this act, or in the documents accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support order is based.  (d) A responding tribunal of this state may not condition the payment of a support order issued under this act upon compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.  (e) If a responding tribunal of this state issues an order under this act, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating tribunal, if any.  (f) If requested to enforce a support order, arrearages or judgment, or modify a support order stated in a foreign currency, a responding tribunal of this state shall convert the amount stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent amount in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.
WY Stat § 20-4-156 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-156 - Inappropriate Tribunal.

20-4-156. Inappropriate tribunal.| If a petition or comparable pleading is received by an inappropriate tribunal of this state, the tribunal shall forward the pleading and accompanying documents to an appropriate tribunal of this state or another state and notify the petitioner where and when the pleading was sent.
WY Stat § 20-4-157 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-157 - Duties of Support Enforcement Agency.

20-4-157. Duties of support enforcement agency.| (a) A support enforcement agency of this state, upon request, shall provide services to a petitioner in a proceeding under this act.  (b) A support enforcement agency of this state that is providing services to the petitioner shall:  (i) Take all steps necessary to enable an appropriate tribunal of this state, another state or a foreign country to obtain jurisdiction over the respondent;  (ii) Request an appropriate tribunal to set a date, time and place for a hearing;  (iii) Make a reasonable effort to obtain all relevant information, including information as to income and property of the parties;  (iv) Within two (2) days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, after receipt of notice in a record from an initiating, responding or registering tribunal, send a copy of the notice to the petitioner;  (v) Within two (2) days, exclusive of Saturdays, Sundays and legal holidays, after receipt of communication in a record from the respondent or the respondent's attorney, send a copy of the communication to the petitioner; and  (vi) Notify the petitioner if jurisdiction over the respondent cannot be obtained.  (c) This act does not create or negate a relationship of attorney and client or other fiduciary relationship between a support enforcement agency or the attorney for the agency and the individual being assisted by the agency.  (d) A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration of a child support order in this state for enforcement or for modification shall make reasonable efforts:  (i) To ensure that the order to be registered is the controlling order; or  (ii) If two (2) or more child support orders exist and the identity of the controlling order has not been determined, to ensure that a request for a determination is made in a tribunal having jurisdiction to do so.  (e) A support enforcement agency of this state that requests registration and enforcement of a support order, arrearages or judgment stated in a foreign currency shall convert the amounts stated in the foreign currency into the equivalent amounts in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate as publicly reported.  (f) A support enforcement agency of this state shall request a tribunal of this state to issue a child support order and an income withholding order that redirect payment of current support, arrearages and interest if requested to do so by a support enforcement agency of another state pursuant to W.S. 20-4-169.
WY Stat § 20-4-158 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-158 - Duty of Attorney General.

20-4-158. Duty of attorney general.| (a) If the state attorney general determines that the support enforcement agency is neglecting or refusing to provide services to an individual, the attorney general may order the agency to perform its duties under this act or may provide those services directly to the individual.  (b) The attorney general may determine that a foreign country has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state and take appropriate action for notification of the determination.
WY Stat § 20-4-159 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-159 - Private Counsel.

20-4-159. Private counsel.| An individual may employ private counsel to represent the individual in proceedings authorized by this act.
WY Stat § 20-4-160 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-160 - Duties of State Information Agency.

20-4-160. Duties of state information agency.| (a) The department of family services child support enforcement section is the state information agency under this act.  (b) The state information agency shall:  (i) Compile and maintain a current list, including addresses, of the tribunals in this state which have jurisdiction under this act and any support enforcement agencies in this state and transmit a copy to the state information agency of every other state;  (ii) Maintain a register of names and addresses of tribunals and support enforcement agencies received from other states;  (iii) Forward to the appropriate tribunal in the county in this state in which the obligee who is an individual or the obligor resides, or in which the obligor's property is believed to be located, all documents concerning a proceeding under this act received from another state or a foreign country; and  (iv) Obtain information concerning the location of the obligor and the obligor's property within this state not exempt from execution, by such means as postal verification and federal or state locator services, examination of telephone directories, requests for the obligor's address from the obligor's employer or employers, and examination of governmental records, including, to the extent not prohibited by other law, those relating to real property, vital statistics, law enforcement, taxation, motor vehicles, driver's licenses and social security.