Current through the 2024 legislative session
Section 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.