Title 1, Title 1 — Code Of Civil Procedure

Application for final decree. (a) If an interlocutory decree has been entered petitioners may apply for a final decree of adoption after the child has resided in the home of the petitioners for six (6) months and a hearing on the petition may be required. (b) If an interlocutory …

Petition for adoption of an adult; consent required. When a petition to adopt an adult is filed a copy of the petition together with a summons issued as in other civil actions shall be served on the adult. If the adult objects to adoption by the petitioner the petition shall be d…

Effect of adoption. (a) Upon the entry of a final decree of adoption the former parent, guardian or putative father of the child shall have no right to the control or custody of the child. The adopting persons shall have all of the rights and obligations respecting the child as i…

Subsidization of adoption; qualification for payments; authority to adopt rules and regulations. (a) The department of family services may grant subsidy payments to the adoptive parent of a child or to another person on behalf of the child, if, at the time the child is placed for…

Medical history of natural parents and adoptive child. To the extent available, the medical history of a child subject to adoption and his natural parents, with information identifying the natural parents eliminated, shall be provided by an authorized agency or may be provided by…

Putative father registry. (a) The department of family services shall establish a putative father registry which shall record the names and addresses of: (i) Any person adjudicated by a court of this state to be the father of a child born out-of-wedlock; (ii) Any person who has f…

Definitions. (a) As used in this act: (i) "Adoptee" means a person who, as a minor, was adopted pursuant to a final decree of adoption entered by a court; (ii) "Adoptive parent" means an adult who has become a parent of a minor through the legal process of adoption; (iii) "Adult"…

Commission created; powers; duties. (a) There is hereby created within the department of family services, an adoption intermediary commission of five (5) members. Representation and appointment of the members shall be as follows: (i) One (1) member shall represent the judicial br…

Confidential intermediaries; confidential intermediary services. (a) Any person who has completed a confidential intermediary training program which meets the standards set forth by the commission shall be responsible for notifying the commission that his name should be included …

Right of actions abolished. The rights of action to recover money as damage for the alienation of affections, criminal conversation, seduction or breach of contract to marry are abolished. No act done in this state shall give rise, either in or out of this state, to any of the ri…

Contracts or instruments based on right of action declared void; execution of instruments, settling claims or bringing action prohibited. All instruments executed within this state in payment, satisfaction, settlement or compromise of any claim or cause of action abolished or bar…

Filing pleading or service of process prohibited. It is unlawful for a person either as a party, attorney or an agent of either, to file or serve or threaten to cause to be filed or served, any process or pleading in any court of the state, setting forth or seeking to recover mon…

Penalty for violation of provisions. Any person who violates any of the provisions of W.S. 1-23-102 or 1-23-103, is guilty of a felony punishable by a fine of not less than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) nor more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or by imprisonment for a …

Agreements void unless in writing. (a) In the following cases every agreement shall be void unless such agreement, or some note or memorandum thereof be in writing, and subscribed by the party to be charged therewith: (i) Every agreement that by its terms is not to be performed w…

Gambling contracts void. All contracts, promises, agreements, conveyances, securities, and notes, made, given, granted, executed, drawn or entered into, where the whole or any part of the consideration thereof shall be for any money, property or other valuable thing won by any ga…

Individual liability of members of governmental agencies. (a) Notwithstanding any provision of the Wyoming Governmental Claims Act, the members of any governmental board, agency, council, commission or governing body are not individually liable for any actions, inactions or omiss…

Contractual provisions in restraint of trade generally void; exceptions; unlawful intimidation. (a) Any covenant not to compete that restricts the right of any person to receive compensation for performance of skilled or unskilled labor shall be void. This subsection shall not ap…

Causes for amercement. (a) On motion in court and notice in writing as provided in W.S. 1-24-102, an officer shall be amerced in the amount of the judgment including costs, and ten percent (10%) thereon for the plaintiff or defendant when: (i) An execution or order of sale is dir…

Notice of motion for amercement. If the officer resides in the county in which the motion is made, the notice shall be served upon him at least two (2) days before the motion is heard. If he is an officer of another county, the notice shall be served upon him or left at his offic…

Amercement for failure to serve or return process. If an officer fails to execute any summons or other process directed to him, or to return the same as required by law, unless he is prevented by unavoidable accident from doing so, he shall be amerced, upon motion and notice in w…

Amercement of clerks of court. If a clerk of court neglects or refuses on demand to pay to the person entitled thereto any money received by him in his official capacity for the use of that person, he may be amerced, on motion and notice as provided by law.

Amount of amercement for not paying over money. When the cause of amercement is the refusal to pay over money collected, the officer shall not be amerced in a greater sum than the amount withheld, with ten percent (10%) thereon.

Surety of officer may be made party to judgment. A surety of an officer may be made party to a judgment of amercement against the officer, but the goods, chattels, lands and tenements of the surety are not liable to execution when sufficient goods, chattels, lands and tenements o…

Officer may have execution on original judgment. If an officer who is amerced has not collected the amount of the original judgment, he may sue out an execution and collect for his own use the amount of the judgment, in the name of the original plaintiff.

Verified petition to be presented; information to be shown in petition; order of court making change; record to be made. Every person desiring to change his name may petition the district court of the county of the petitioner's residence for the desired change. The petition shall…

Residence requirement. A person petitioning for a change of name shall have been a bona fide resident of Wyoming for at least six (6) months immediately preceding filing the petition.

Notice to be given by publication. Except in a proceeding in which the court has issued a confidentiality order pursuant to W.S. 35-21-112 or any other court order allowing a party to maintain confidentiality of addresses, city or state of residence or other information identifyi…

Change of name in adoption proceedings. In all cases of the adoption of children in the manner provided by law, the court before which such adoption proceeding is held, may change the name of any child so adopted and make an order to that effect, which shall be recorded in the re…

Short title. (a) This act shall be cited as the "Wyoming Eminent Domain Act". (b) Except as otherwise specifically provided by statute, the power of eminent domain may be exercised only as provided by this act and the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure to the extent the Rules of Ci…

Definitions. (a) As used in this act: (i) "Condemn" means to take property under the power of eminent domain; (ii) "Condemnee" means a person who has or claims an interest in property that is the subject of a prospective or pending condemnation action; (iii) "Condemnor" means a p…

Public use required; other acquisitions. (a) Nothing in this act requires that the power of eminent domain be exercised to acquire property. Whether property necessary for public use is to be acquired by purchase, other means or by eminent domain is a decision left to the discret…

Requirements to exercise eminent domain. (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, the power of eminent domain may be exercised to acquire property for a proposed use only if all of the following are established: (i) The public interest and necessity require the project or the use…

Condemnation of property devoted to a public use. (a) If a proposed use cannot be obtained under W.S. 1-26-813, any condemnor may exercise the power of eminent domain to acquire property appropriated to public use if the proposed use will not unreasonably interfere with or impair…

Entry prior to condemnation action. (a) A condemnor and its agents and employees may enter upon real property and make surveys, examinations, photographs, tests, soundings, borings and samplings, or engage in other activities for the purpose of appraising the property or determin…

Entry prior to condemnation action; court orders. (a) If reasonable efforts to accomplish a lawful entry or to perform authorized activities upon real property under W.S. 1-26-506 have been obstructed or denied the condemnor may apply to the district court for an order permitting…

Entry prior to condemnation action; damages. (a) A condemnor is liable for physical injury to, and for substantial interference with possession or use of, property caused by his entry and activities upon the property. This liability may be enforced in a civil action against the c…

Negotiations; scope of efforts to purchase. (a) A condemnor shall make reasonable and diligent efforts to acquire property by good faith negotiation. (b) In attempting to acquire the property by purchase under W.S. 1-26-510, the condemnor, acting within the scope of its powers an…

Preliminary efforts to purchase. (a) Except as provided in W.S. 1-26-511, an action to condemn property may not be maintained over timely objection by the condemnee unless the condemnor made a good faith effort to acquire the property by purchase before commencing the action. A c…

Purchase efforts waived or excused. (a) A condemnor's failure or inability substantially to comply with W.S. 1-26-509 and 1-26-510 does not bar the maintenance of a condemnation action, notwithstanding timely objection, if: (i) Compliance is waived by written agreement between th…

Contents of authorization. (a) A public entity may not commence a condemnation action until it has first adopted a written resolution in substantial conformity with this section, authorizing commencement and prosecution of the action. The authorization may be amended or rescinded…

Deposit at commencement of action. (a) At the time of commencing an eminent domain proceeding the condemnor shall deposit in court an amount equal to the condemnor's last offer of settlement prior to the action. Upon motion of the condemnee and following a hearing if the amount o…

Interest taken; due compensation. (a) In the case of public entities the court may grant an easement or fee simple title to the public entity if necessary for the purpose for which the land was condemned. In cases not involving public entities, following determination of due comp…

Abandonment, nonuse or new use. Upon abandonment, nonuse for a period of ten (10) years, or transfer or attempted transfer to a use where the transferee could not have condemned for the new use, or where the new use is not identical to the original use and new damages to the land…

Action for inverse condemnation. When a person possessing the power of condemnation takes possession of or damages land in which he has no interest, or substantially diminishes the use or value of land, due to activities on adjoining land without the authorization of the owner of…

Informal claims procedure authorized. This article applies whenever only the amount of compensation is in dispute and the total compensation demanded by any condemnee is less than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00), excluding interest and costs, or the difference between the la…

Request for informal procedure. A party may file with the court a written request that the issue of the amount of compensation be determined under this article, identifying the property and setting forth the amount of the condemnor's latest offer and the condemnee's latest demand…