Wyoming

JURISDICTIONAL END OF MARRIAGE DATE: Date of Complaint of Divorce. If there is no Complaint Date use current date.

STATE TYPE FOR PENSION EVALUATION: Wyoming is an "equitable distribution" state. Equitable distribution means that the marital property of the parties will be distributed among the parties in a manner the court determines to be equitable and just, not necessarily equally among the parties.

[Wyoming Statutes Annotated; Title 20, Chapter 20-2-114].

Wyo. Stat. Ann. '20-2-114

Disposition of property to be equitable; factors; alimony generally.

In granting a divorce, the court shall make such disposition of the property of the parties as appears just and equitable, having regard for the respective merits of the parties and the condition in which they will be left by the divorce, the party through whom the property was acquired and the burdens imposed upon the property for the benefit of either party and children. The court may decree to either party reasonable alimony out of the estate of the other having regard for the other's ability to pay and may order so much of the other's real estate or the rents and profits thereof as is necessary be assigned and set out to either party for life, or may decree a specific sum be paid by either party.

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