Wright v. Wright
Annotate this CaseThe year after Mother and Father were married, Mother filed a complaint for divorce. The next year, the district court entered an order enforcing the parties’ settlement agreement. Thereafter, Father filed a motion asking the district court to enter a divorce decree and attached a proposed decree. Mother submitted her own proposed decree. The district court approved and entered Father’s proposed decree, finding that that decree followed more closely the terms of the settlement. The decree awarded Father primary residential custody of the parties’ minor daughter and calculated child support. The Supreme Court affirmed the divorce decree in all respects except the provision requiring Mother to pay retroactive child support, holding (1) Father was not estopped from claiming the settlement agreement was binding when he previously took the position that it was not; (2) the district court did not err in enforcing the settlement agreement where the court concluded that the parties’ agreement was in the child’s best interest; (3) the district court did not err in failing to apply the joint presumptive child support found in Wyo. Stat. Ann. 20-2-304(c); and (4) district court erred in ordering Mother to both reimburse Father for travel costs and to pay retroactive child support.
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