Title 20 Domestic Relations

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.