Section 20-4-170 - Establishment of Support Order.

WY Stat § 20-4-170 (2019) (N/A)

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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.

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