Child Support Calculations in Wyoming.

How Does a Parent Change Custody or Visitation?

When a Wyoming decree or order grants custody and visitation rights, a question often arises whether there is a process by which the court may later modify those rights. In answering the question, Wyoming Statute § 20–2–204(c) broadly sets a standard of “material change in circumstances since the entry of the [decree or order].” Wyoming…

Visitation in Wyoming.

How Does the “Best Interests of the Children” Affect Visitation?

The law gives wide discretion to the Judge in a Wyoming Divorce Court to fashion custody and visitation provisions that serve the best interests of the children. The goal is to strike a reasonable balance of the rights and affections of each of the parents, with paramount consideration being given to the welfare and needs…

What Visitation Rights Do Grandparents Have in Wyoming?

In June of 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down, as unconstitutional, a Washington state law that allowed the a Washington state court to order visitation for any person petitioning the court when visitation would serve the best interests of the child. Following the death of their son, the paternal grandparents sought visitation under this…