2012 Wyoming Statutes
TITLE 20 - DOMESTIC RELATIONS
CHAPTER 4 - UNIFORM INTERSTATE FAMILY SUPPORT ACT
20-4-155. Duties and power of responding tribunal.

(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) Issue or enforce a support order, modify a child support order, determine the controlling child support order or determine parentage;

(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, 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 court 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(xii) Repealed By Laws 1998, ch. 97, 3.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 the Uniform Interstate Family Support 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 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.