§ 20-4-163 — Costs and fees

Wyoming § 20-4-163

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

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(a) The petitioner may not be required to pay a filing fee
or other costs.
(b) If an obligee prevails, a responding tribunal of this
state may assess against an obligor filing fees, reasonable
attorney's fees, other costs and necessary travel and other
reasonable expenses incurred by the obligee and the obligee's
witnesses. The tribunal may not assess fees, costs or expenses
against the obligee or the support enforcement agency of either
the initiating or the responding state or foreign country,
except as provided by other law. Attorney's fees may be taxed
as costs, and may be ordered paid directly to the attorney, who
may enforce the order in the attorney's own name. Payment of
support owed to the obligee has priority over fees, costs and
expenses.
(c) The tribunal shall order the payment of costs and
reasonable attorney's fees if it determines that a hearing was
requested primarily for delay. In a proceeding under W.S.
20-4-173 through 20-4-184, 20-4-193, 20-4-194 and 20-4-197, a
hearing is presumed to have been requested primarily for delay
if a registered support order is confirmed or enforced without
change.