§ 20-4-155 — Duties and power of responding tribunal

Wyoming § 20-4-155

• Jurisdiction: Wyoming
• Title 20: Domestic Relations
• Ch. 4: UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT

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(a) When a responding tribunal of this state receives a
petition or comparable pleading from initiating tribunal or
directly pursuant to W.S. 20-4-151(c), it shall cause the
petition or pleading to be filed and notify the petitioner where
and when it was filed.
(b) A responding tribunal of this state, to the extent not
prohibited by other law, may do one (1) or more of the
following:
(i) Establish or enforce a support order, modify a
child support order, determine the controlling child support
order or determine parentage of a child;
(ii) Order an obligor to comply with a support order,
specifying the amount and manner of compliance;
(iii) Order income withholding;
(iv) Determine the amount of any arrearages, and
specify a method of payment;
(v) Enforce orders by civil or criminal contempt, or
both;
(vi) Set aside property for satisfaction of the
support order;
(vii) Place liens and order execution on the
obligor's property;
(viii) Order an obligor to keep the tribunal informed
of the obligor's current residential address, electronic mail
address, telephone number, employer, address of employment and
telephone number at the place of employment;
(ix) Issue a bench warrant for an obligor who has
failed after proper notice to appear at a hearing ordered by the
tribunal and enter the warrant in any local and state computer
system for criminal warrants;
(x) Order the obligor to seek appropriate employment
by specified methods;
(xi) Award reasonable attorney's fees and other fees
and costs;
(xii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 97, § 3.
(xiii) Grant any other available remedy.
(c) A responding tribunal of this state shall include in a
support order issued under this act, or in the documents
accompanying the order, the calculations on which the support
order is based.
(d) A responding tribunal of this state may not condition
the payment of a support order issued under this act upon
compliance by a party with provisions for visitation.
(e) If a responding tribunal of this state issues an order
under this act, the tribunal shall send a copy of the order to
the petitioner and the respondent and to the initiating
tribunal, if any.
(f) If requested to enforce a support order, arrearages or
judgment, or modify a support order stated in a foreign
currency, a responding tribunal of this state shall convert the
amount stated in the foreign currency to the equivalent amount
in dollars under the applicable official or market exchange rate
as publicly reported.