Section 20-4-170 – Establishment of support order

May 14, 2021 | Family Law, Wyoming

(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.

W.S. 20-4-170

Amended by Laws 2015, ch. 75,ยง 2, eff. 3/2/2015.