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WY Stat § 20-4-161 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-161 - Pleadings and Accompanying Documents.

20-4-161. Pleadings and accompanying documents.| (a) In a proceeding under this act, a petitioner seeking to establish a support order, to determine parentage of a child or to register and modify a support order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign country shall file a petition. Unless otherwise ordered under W.S. 20-4-162, the petition or accompanying documents shall provide, so far as known, the name, residential address and social security numbers of the obligor and the obligee or the parent and alleged parent, and the name, sex, residential address, social security number and date of birth of each child for whose benefit support is sought or whose parentage is to be determined. Unless filed at the time of registration, the petition shall be accompanied by a copy of any support order known to have been issued by another tribunal. The petition or accompanying documents may include any other information that may assist in locating or identifying the respondent.  (b) The petition shall specify the relief sought. The petition and accompanying documents shall conform substantially with the requirements imposed by the forms mandated by federal law for use in cases filed by a support enforcement agency.
WY Stat § 20-4-162 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-162 - Nondisclosure of Information in Exceptional Circumstances.

20-4-162. Nondisclosure of information in exceptional circumstances.| If a party alleges in an affidavit or a pleading under oath that the health, safety or liberty of a party or child would be jeopardized by disclosure of specific identifying information, that information shall be sealed and may not be disclosed to the other party or the public. After a hearing in which a tribunal takes into consideration the health, safety or liberty of the party or child, the tribunal may order disclosure of information that the tribunal determines to be in the interest of justice.
WY Stat § 20-4-163 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-163 - Costs and Fees.

20-4-163. Costs and fees.| (a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee or other costs.  (b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this state may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable attorney's fees, other costs and necessary travel and other reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs or expenses against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either the initiating or the responding state or foreign country, except as provided by other law. Attorney's fees may be taxed as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs and expenses.  (c) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and reasonable attorney's fees if it determines that a hearing was requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under W.S. 20-4-173 through 20-4-184, 20-4-193, 20-4-194 and 20-4-197, a hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without change.
WY Stat § 20-4-164 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-164 - Limited Immunity of Petitioner.

20-4-164. Limited immunity of petitioner.| (a) Participation by a petitioner in a proceeding under this act before a responding tribunal, whether in person, by private attorney, or through services provided by the support enforcement agency, does not confer personal jurisdiction over the petitioner in another proceeding.  (b) A petitioner is not amenable to service of civil process while physically present in this state to participate in a proceeding under this act.  (c) The immunity granted by this section does not extend to civil litigation based on acts unrelated to a proceeding under this act committed by a party while physically present in this state to participate in the proceeding.
WY Stat § 20-4-165 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-165 - Nonparentage as Defense.

20-4-165. Nonparentage as defense.| A party whose parentage of a child has been previously determined by or pursuant to law may not plead nonparentage as a defense to a proceeding under this act.
WY Stat § 20-4-166 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-166 - Special Rules of Evidence and Procedure.

20-4-166. Special rules of evidence and procedure.| (a) The physical presence of a nonresident party who is an individual in a tribunal of this state is not required for the establishment, enforcement or modification of a support order or the rendition of a judgment determining parentage of a child.  (b) An affidavit, a document substantially complying with federally mandated forms or a document incorporated by reference in any of them, which would not be excluded under the hearsay rule if given in person, is admissible in evidence if given under penalty of perjury or false swearing by a party or witness residing outside this state.  (c) A copy of the record of child support payments certified as a true copy of the original by the custodian of the record may be forwarded to a responding tribunal. The copy is evidence of facts asserted in it, and is admissible to show whether payments were made.  (d) Copies of bills for testing for parentage of a child, and for prenatal and postnatal health care of the mother and child, furnished to the adverse party at least ten (10) days before trial, are admissible in evidence to prove the amount of the charges billed and that the charges were reasonable, necessary and customary.  (e) Documentary evidence transmitted from outside this state to a tribunal of this state by telephone, telecopier, or other electronic means that do not provide an original record may not be excluded from evidence on an objection based on the means of transmission.  (f) In a proceeding under this act, a tribunal of this state shall permit a party or witness residing outside this state to be deposed or to testify under penalty of perjury or false swearing by telephone, audiovisual means or other electronic means at a designated tribunal or other location. A tribunal of this state shall cooperate with other tribunals in designating an appropriate location for the deposition or testimony.  (g) If a party called to testify at a civil hearing refuses to answer on the ground that the testimony may be self-incriminating, the trier of fact may draw an adverse inference from the refusal.  (h) A privilege against disclosure of communications between spouses does not apply in a proceeding under this act.  (j) The defense of immunity based on the relationship of husband and wife or parent and child does not apply in a proceeding under this act.  (k) A voluntary acknowledgment of paternity, certified as a true copy, is admissible to establish parentage of the child.
WY Stat § 20-4-167 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-167 - Communications Between Tribunals.

20-4-167. Communications between tribunals.| A tribunal of this state may communicate with a tribunal outside this state in a record, or by telephone, electronic mail or other means, to obtain information concerning the laws, the legal effect of a judgment, decree or order of that tribunal, and the status of a proceeding. A tribunal of this state may furnish similar information by similar means to a tribunal outside this state.
WY Stat § 20-4-168 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-168 - Assistance With Discovery.

20-4-168. Assistance with discovery.| (a) A tribunal of this state may:  (i) Request a tribunal outside this state to assist in obtaining discovery; and  (ii) Upon request, compel a person over which it has jurisdiction to respond to a discovery order issued by a tribunal outside this state.
WY Stat § 20-4-169 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-169 - Receipt and Disbursement of Payments.

20-4-169. Receipt and disbursement of payments.| (a) A support enforcement agency or tribunal of this state shall disburse promptly any amounts received pursuant to a support order, as directed by the order. The agency or tribunal shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of another state or foreign country a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amounts and dates of all payments received.  (b) If neither the obligor, nor the obligee who is an individual, nor the child resides in this state, upon request from the support enforcement agency of this state or another state, a tribunal of this state shall:  (i) Direct that the support payment be made to the support enforcement agency in the state in which the obligee is receiving services; and  (ii) Issue and send to the obligor's employer a conforming income withholding order or an administrative notice of change of payee, reflecting the redirected payments.  (c) The support enforcement agency of this state receiving redirected payments from another state pursuant to a law similar to subsection (b) of this section shall furnish to a requesting party or tribunal of the other state a certified statement by the custodian of the record of the amount and dates of all payments received.
WY Stat § 20-4-170 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-170 - Establishment of Support Order.

20-4-170. Establishment of support order.| (a) If a support order entitled to recognition under this act has not been issued, a responding tribunal of this state with personal jurisdiction over the parties may issue a support order if:  (i) The individual seeking the order resides outside this state; or  (ii) The support enforcement agency seeking the order is located outside this state.  (b) The tribunal may issue a temporary child support order if the tribunal determines that the order is appropriate and the individual ordered to pay is:  (i) A presumed father of the child;  (ii) Petitioning to have his paternity adjudicated;  (iii) Identified as the father of the child through genetic testing;  (iv) An alleged father who has declined to submit to genetic testing;  (v) Shown by clear and convincing evidence to be the father of the child;  (vi) An acknowledged father as provided by W.S. 14-2-601 et seq.;  (vii) The mother of the child; or  (viii) An individual who has been ordered to pay child support in a previous proceeding and the order has not been reversed or vacated.  (c) Upon finding, after notice and opportunity to be heard, that an obligor owes a duty of support, the tribunal shall issue a support order directed to the obligor and may issue other orders pursuant to W.S. 20-4-155.
WY Stat § 20-4-171 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-171 - Employer's Receipt of Income Withholding Order of Another State; Employer's Compliance With Income Withholding Order of Another State; Compliance With Multiple Income Withholding Orders.

20-4-171. Employer's receipt of income withholding order of another state; employer's compliance with income withholding order of another state; compliance with multiple income withholding orders.| (a) An income withholding order issued in another state may be sent by or on behalf of the obligee, or by the support enforcement agency to the person defined as the obligor's employer under W.S. 20-6-201 through 20-6-222 without first filing a petition or comparable pleading or registering the order with a tribunal of this state.  (i) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 97, § 3.  (ii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 97, § 3.  (iii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 97, § 3.  (b) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 97, § 3.  (c) Upon receipt of an income withholding order, the obligor s employer shall immediately provide a copy of the order to the obligor.  (d) The employer shall treat an income withholding order issued in another state which appears regular on its face as if it had been issued by a tribunal of this state.  (e) Except as otherwise provided in subsections (f) and (g) of this section, the employer shall withhold and distribute the funds as directed in the withholding order by complying with terms of the order which specify:  (i) The duration and amount of periodic payments of current child support, stated as a sum certain;  (ii) The person designated to receive payments and the address to which the payments are to be forwarded;  (iii) Medical support, whether in the form of periodic cash payment, stated as a sum certain, or ordering the obligor to provide health insurance coverage for the child under a policy available through the obligor s employment;  (iv) The amount of periodic payments of fees and costs for a support enforcement agency, the issuing tribunal, and the obligee s attorney, stated as sums certain; and  (v) The amount of periodic payments of arrearages and interest on arrearages, stated as sums certain.  (f) An employer shall comply with the law of the state of the obligor s principal place of employment for withholding from income with respect to:  (i) The employer s fee for processing an income withholding order;  (ii) The maximum amount permitted to be withheld from the obligor s income; and  (iii) The times within which the employer shall implement the withholding order and forward the child support payment.  (g) If an obligor's employer receives two (2) or more income withholding orders with respect to the earnings of the same obligor, the employer satisfies the terms of the orders if the employer complies with the law of the state of the obligor's principal place of employment to establish the priorities for withholding and allocating income withheld for two (2) or more child support obligees.
WY Stat § 20-4-172 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-172 - Administrative Enforcement of Orders.

20-4-172. Administrative enforcement of orders.| (a) A party or support enforcement agency seeking to enforce a support order or an income withholding order, or both, issued in another state or a foreign support order may send the documents required for registering the order to a support enforcement agency of this state.  (b) Upon receipt of the documents, the support enforcement agency, without initially seeking to register the order, shall consider and, if appropriate, use any administrative procedure authorized by the law of this state to enforce a support order or an income withholding order, or both. If the obligor does not contest administrative enforcement, the order need not be registered. If the obligor contests the validity or administrative enforcement of the order, the support enforcement agency shall register the order pursuant to this act.  (c) The department of family services shall adopt rules and regulations consistent with federal requirements to implement this section.
WY Stat § 20-4-173 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-173 - Registration of Order for Enforcement.

20-4-173. Registration of order for enforcement.| A support order or income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state for enforcement.
WY Stat § 20-4-174 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-174 - Procedure to Register Order for Enforcement.

20-4-174. Procedure to register order for enforcement.| (a) Except as otherwise provided in W.S. 20-4-206, a support order or an income withholding order of another state or a foreign support order may be registered in this state by sending the following records to the appropriate tribunal in this state:  (i) A letter of transmittal to the tribunal requesting registration and enforcement;  (ii) Two (2) copies, including one (1) certified copy, of the order to be registered, including any modification of the order;  (iii) A sworn statement by the person requesting registration or a certified statement by the custodian of the records showing the amount of any arrearage;  (iv) The name of the obligor and, if known:  (A) The obligor's address and social security number;  (B) The name and address of the obligor's employer or other payor and any other source of income of the obligor; and  (C) A description and the location of property of the obligor in this state not exempt from execution.  (D) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 97, § 3.  (v) Except as otherwise provided in W.S. 20-4-162, the name and address of the obligee and, if applicable, the person to whom support payments are to be remitted.  (b) On receipt of a request for registration, the registering tribunal shall cause the order to be filed as an order of a tribunal of another state or a foreign support order, together with one (1) copy of the documents and information, regardless of their form.  (c) A petition or comparable pleading seeking a remedy that shall be affirmatively sought under other law of this state may be filed at the same time as the request for registration, or later. The pleading shall specify the grounds for the remedy sought.  (d) If two (2) or more orders are in effect, the person requesting registration shall:  (i) Furnish to the tribunal a copy of every support order asserted to be in effect in addition to the documents specified in this section;  (ii) Specify the order alleged to be the controlling order, if any; and  (iii) Specify the amount of consolidated arrearages, if any.  (e) A request for a determination of which is the controlling order may be filed separately or with a request for registration and enforcement or for registration and modification. The person requesting registration shall give notice of the request to each party whose rights may be affected by the determination.
WY Stat § 20-4-175 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-175 - Effect of Registration for Enforcement.

20-4-175. Effect of registration for enforcement.| (a) A support order or income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered when the order is filed in the registering tribunal of this state.  (b) A registered support order issued in another state or a foreign country is enforceable in the same manner and is subject to the same procedures as an order issued by a tribunal of this state.  (c) Except as otherwise provided in this act, a tribunal of this state shall recognize and enforce, but shall not modify, a registered support order if the issuing tribunal had jurisdiction.
WY Stat § 20-4-176 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-176 - Choice of Law.

20-4-176. Choice of law.| (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d) of this section, the law of the issuing state or foreign country governs:  (i) The nature, extent, amount and duration of current payments under a registered support order;  (ii) The computation and payment of arrearages and accrual of interest on the arrearages under the support order; and  (iii) The existence and satisfaction of other obligations under the support order.  (b) In a proceeding for arrearages under a registered support order, the statute of limitation of this state or of the issuing state or foreign country, whichever is longer, applies.  (c) A responding tribunal of this state shall apply the procedures and remedies of this state to enforce current support and collect arrearages and interest due on a support order of another state or foreign country registered in this state.  (d) After a tribunal of this or another state determines which is the controlling order and issues an order consolidating arrearages, if any, a tribunal of this state shall prospectively apply the law of the state or foreign country issuing the controlling order, including its law on interest on arrearages, on current and future support, and on consolidated arrearages.
WY Stat § 20-4-177 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-177 - Notice of Registration of Order.

20-4-177. Notice of registration of order.| (a) When a support order or income withholding order issued in another state or a foreign support order is registered, the registering tribunal of this state shall notify the nonregistering party. The notice shall be accompanied by a copy of the registered order and the documents and relevant information accompanying the order.  (b) A notice shall inform the nonregistering party:  (i) That a registered order is enforceable as of the date of registration in the same manner as an order issued by a tribunal of this state;  (ii) That a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order shall be requested within twenty (20) days after notice unless the registered order is under W.S. 20-4-207;  (iii) That failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered order in a timely manner will result in confirmation of the order and enforcement of the order and the alleged arrearages and precludes further contest of that order with respect to any matter that could have been asserted; and  (iv) Of the amount of any alleged arrearages.  (c) If the registering party asserts that two (2) or more orders are in effect, a notice shall also:  (i) Identify the two (2) or more orders and the order alleged by the registering party to be the controlling order and the consolidated arrearages, if any;  (ii) Notify the nonregistering party of the right to a determination of which is the controlling order;  (iii) State that the procedures provided in subsection (b) of this section apply to the determination of which is the controlling order; and  (iv) State that failure to contest the validity or enforcement of the order alleged to be the controlling order in a timely manner may result in confirmation that the order is the controlling order.  (d) Upon registration of an income withholding order for enforcement, the support enforcement agency or the registering tribunal shall notify the obligor's employer pursuant to W.S. 20-6-201 through 20-6-222.
WY Stat § 20-4-178 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 20 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 4 - Uniform Interstate Family Support Act|Section 20-4-178 - Procedure to Contest Validity or Enforcement of Registered Order.

20-4-178. Procedure to contest validity or enforcement of registered order.| (a) A nonregistering party seeking to contest the validity or enforcement of a registered support order in this state shall request a hearing within the time required by W.S. 20-4-177. The nonregistering party may seek to vacate the registration, to assert any defense to an allegation of noncompliance with the registered order, or to contest the remedies being sought or the amount of any alleged arrearages pursuant to W.S. 20-4-179.  (b) If the nonregistering party fails to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered support order in a timely manner, the order is confirmed by operation of law.  (c) If a nonregistering party requests a hearing to contest the validity or enforcement of the registered support order, the registering tribunal shall schedule the matter for hearing and give notice to the parties of the date, time and place of the hearing.