Wyoming § 14-2-817 Rules for adjudication of paternity

Wyoming Statutes

§ 14-2-817 — Rules for adjudication of paternity

Wyoming § 14-2-817

Title 14Children

Ch. 2PARENTS

Art. 8PROCEEDING TO ADJUDICATE PARENTAGE

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Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 14-2-817 (2026).

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(a)The court shall apply the following rules to adjudicate the paternity of a child:

(i)The paternity of a child having a presumed, acknowledged or adjudicated father may be disproved only by admissible results of genetic testing excluding that man as the father of the child or identifying another man as the father of the child;

(ii)Unless the results of genetic testing are admitted to rebut other results of genetic testing, a man identified as the father of a child under W.S. 14-2-705 shall be adjudicated the father of the child;

(iii)If the court finds that genetic testing under W.S. 14-2-705 neither identifies nor excludes a man as the father of a child, the court may not dismiss the proceeding. In that event, the results of genetic testing, and other evidence, are admissible to adj

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(a) The court shall apply the following rules to
adjudicate the paternity of a child:
(i) The paternity of a child having a presumed,
acknowledged or adjudicated father may be disproved only by
admissible results of genetic testing excluding that man as the
father of the child or identifying another man as the father of
the child;
(ii) Unless the results of genetic testing are
admitted to rebut other results of genetic testing, a man
identified as the father of a child under W.S. 14-2-705 shall be
adjudicated the father of the child;
(iii) If the court finds that genetic testing under
W.S. 14-2-705 neither identifies nor excludes a man as the
father of a child, the court may not dismiss the proceeding. In
that event, the results of genetic testing, and other evidence,
are admissible to adjudicate the issue of paternity;
(iv) Unless the results of genetic testing are
admitted to rebut other results of genetic testing, a man
excluded as the father of a child by genetic testing shall be
adjudicated not to be the father of the child.