Wyoming Statutes
Wyo. Stat. § 14-2-504 (2026)
Presumption of paternity in context of marriage.
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(a) A man is presumed to be the father of a child if:
(i) He and the mother of the child are married to
each other and the child is born during the marriage;
(ii) He and the mother of the child were married to
each other and the child is born within three hundred (300) days
after the marriage is terminated by death, annulment,
declaration of invalidity, divorce or after the entry of a
decree of separation;
(iii) Before the birth of the child, he and the
mother of the child married each other in apparent compliance
with law, even if the attempted marriage is or could be declared
invalid, and the child is born during the invalid marriage or
within three hundred (300) days after its termination by death,
annulment, declaration of invalidity, divorce or after the entry
of a decree of separation;
(iv) After the birth of the child, he and the mother
of the child married each other in apparent compliance with law,
whether or not the marriage is or could be declared invalid, and
he voluntarily asserted his paternity of the child, and:
(A) The assertion is in a record filed with the
state office of vital records;
(B) He agreed to be and is named as the child's
father on the child's birth certificate; or
(C) He promised in a record to support the child
as his own.
(v) For the first two (2) years of the child's life,
he resided in the same household with the child and openly held
out the child as his own.
(b) A presumption of paternity established under this
section may be rebutted only by an adjudication under article 8
of this act.Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases (1 in the last 5 years), 2013–2021 · leading case: Heather Martin Gartner & Melissa Gartner, Individually & as Next Friends of Mackenzie Jean Gartner, a Minor Child v. Iowa Dep't of Pub. Health, 830 N.W.2d 335 (Iowa 2013).
Heather Martin Gartner & Melissa Gartner, Individually & as Next Friends of Mackenzie Jean Gartner, a Minor Child v. Iowa Dep't of Pub. Health, 830 N.W.2d 335 (Iowa 2013). “”); Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 14-2-504 (a)(i) (2011) (“A man is presumed to be the father of a child if .”
Bj v. Km & Cm, 2021 WY 37 (Wyo. 2021). “3 Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 14-2-504 establishes who qualifies as a presumed father.”
FH v. State (In re Interest of ECH), 423 P.3d 295 (Wyo. 2018). “But this reading of the statute disregards the plain and unambiguous *304 definition of "parent," which the Act defines as "either a natural or adoptive parent of the child, a person adjudged the parent of the child in judicial proceedings or a man presumed to be the father…”
Lp v. Lf, 2014 WY 152 (Wyo. 2014). “At no time during the hearing did Appellant claim that he was a parent by estoppel or a de facto parent under ALI Principles He argued instead that he had entered into a common law marriage with Mother in Colorado, or that alternatively the district court had the equitable power…”
— Wyo. Stat. § 14-2-504(a)(v) — 1 case
Lp v. Lf, 2014 WY 152 (Wyo. 2014). “At no time during the hearing did Appellant claim that he was a parent by estoppel or a de facto parent under ALI Principles He argued instead that he had entered into a common law marriage with Mother in Colorado, or that alternatively the district court had the equitable power…”
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