20-4-213;

20-4-213;

(xxiii) "IV-D agency" means the department of family services;

(xxiv) "Law" includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law;

(xxv) "Person" means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality or any other legal or commercial entity;

(xxvi) "Record" means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form;

(xxvii) "Convention" means the convention on the international recovery of child support and other forms of family maintenance, concluded at the Hague on November 23, 2007;

(xxviii) "Foreign country" means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and:

(A) Which has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign reciprocating country;

(B) Which has established a reciprocal arrangement for child support with this state as provided in W.S. 20-4-158;

(C) Which has enacted a law or established procedures for the issuance and enforcement of support orders which are substantially similar to the procedures under this act; or

(D) In which the convention is in force with respect to the United States.

(xxix) "Foreign support order" means a support order of a foreign tribunal;

(xxx) "Foreign tribunal" means a court, administrative agency or quasi-judicial entity of a foreign country which is authorized to establish, enforce or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. The term includes a competent authority under the convention;

(xxxi) "Issuing foreign country" means the foreign country in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child;

(xxxii) "Outside this state" means a location in another state or a country other than the United States, whether or not the country is a foreign country.  20-4-141. Remedies cumulative; application of act to resident of foreign country and foreign support proceeding.

(a) Remedies provided by this act are cumulative and do not affect the availability of remedies under other law or the recognition of a foreign support order on the basis of comity.

(b) This act does not:

(i) Provide the exclusive method of establishing or enforcing a support order under the law of this state; or

(ii) Grant a tribunal of this state jurisdiction to render judgment or issue an order relating to child custody or visitation in a proceeding under this act.

(c) A tribunal of this state shall apply article 1 of this act and, as applicable, article 2 of this act, to a support proceeding involving:

(i) A foreign support order;

(ii) A foreign tribunal; or

(iii) An obligee, obligor or child residing in a foreign country.

(d) A tribunal of this state that is requested to recognize and enforce a support order on the basis of comity may apply the procedural and substantive provisions of article 1 of this act.

(e) Article 2 of this act applies only to a support proceeding under the convention. In such a proceeding, if a provision of article 2 of this act is inconsistent with article 1 of this act, article 2 of this act controls.

20-4-142. Basis for jurisdiction over nonresident.

(a) In a proceeding to establish or enforce a support order or to determine parentage of a child, a tribunal of this state may exercise personal jurisdiction over a nonresident individual or the individual's guardian or conservator if:

(i) The individual is personally served with notice within the state;  (ii) The individual submits to the jurisdiction of this state by consent in a record, by entering a general appearance, or by filing a responsive document having the effect of waiving any contest to personal jurisdiction;

(iii) The individual resided with the child in this state;

(iv) The individual resided in this state and provided prenatal expenses or support for the child;

(v) The child resides in this state as a result of the acts or directives of the individual;

(vi) The individual engaged in sexual intercourse in this state and the child may have been conceived by that act of intercourse;

(vii) The individual asserted parentage of a child in this state pursuant to the putative father registry created by W.S. 1-22-117 and maintained in this state by the department of family services; or

(viii) There is any other basis consistent with the constitutions of this state and the United States for the exercise of personal jurisdiction.

(b) The bases of personal jurisdiction set forth in subsection (a) of this section or in any other law of this state may not be used to acquire personal jurisdiction for a tribunal of this state to modify a child support order of another state unless the requirements of W.S. 20-4-183 are met, or, in the case of a foreign support order, unless the requirements of W.S.