Cheyenne, WY
Family Lawyer at Cheyenne, WY
Practice Areas: Family, Divorce & Separation ... +3 more
OUTCOME: Affirmed
The issue of documentary evidence versus oral testimony is one of weight, not of admissibility and the district court did not err by considering the wife‘s oral testimony.
OUTCOME: Injunction issued
Wyoming statute limiting marriage to "between a male and a female person" violates the due process and equal protection guarantees of the United States Constitution. The State was prevented from enforc ... ing or applying Wyoming Statute § 20-1-101, or any other state law, policy, or practice, as a basis to deny marriage to same-sex couples or to deny recognition of otherwise valid same-sex marriages entered into elsewhere. Marriage licenses may not be denied on the basis that the applicants are a same-sex couple.
OUTCOME: Reversed and remanded
Two Wyoming residents sought a legal remedy to dissolve their same-sex marriage created under the laws of Canada. Wyoming statute specifically recognizes that marriages, if valid in the country in whi ... ch they were married, are also recognized as valid in Wyoming. There is nothing in Wyoming statutes or policy that closes the doors of the district courts to them. The district court has subject-matter jurisdiction to entertain their complaint for divorce.
OUTCOME: Affirmed
Generally speaking the separating of siblings through custody awards to different parents is not preferred. Keeping siblings together in the same household is considered the better practice. However, t ... his court clarified that the effect of separating siblings from each other is just one of several factors courts consider in determining the primary issue-the best interests of the children.
OUTCOME: Affirmed
A 1904 deed created an easement appurtenant, and not merely a license, on the disputed strip of land. The 1904 deed created an easement appurtenant and not merely a license.
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