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Legislative Update: Three Letters

By Parental Rights Foundation • February 4, 2025
Sometimes, the Parental Rights Foundation lets you know about legislation in the works in your state and urges you to contact your lawmakers to support (or, when necessary, to oppose) the bill in question. Other times, the proper approach is to send a letter of support (or opposition) to the appropriate lawmaker or committee. Already… The post Legislative Update: Three Letters appeared first on Parental Rights Foundation.

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Wyoming State Law

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We did it! Thanks in part to your support, as of July 1, 2017, Wyoming law provides:


14-2-206. Protection of parental rights.


(a) The liberty of a parent to the care, custody and control of their child is a fundamental right that resides first in the parent.

(b) The state, or any agency or political subdivision of the state, shall not infringe the parental right as provided under this section without demonstrating that the interest of the government as applied to the parent or child is a compelling state interest addressed by the least restrictive means.

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Wyoming Courts

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Wyoming courts have also affirmed parental rights as fundamental, recently (2022) including strict scrutiny.

Ailport v. Ailport, 507 P.3d 427, 441 (Wyo. 2022):

"[¶43] Parents have a fundamental due process right to guide the upbringing of their children, including determining the level of contact with their grandparents. To satisfy strict scrutiny, § 20-7-101 must be interpreted to protect parents' fundamental right by requiring grandparents to prove parents are unfit to make visitation decisions for their children or the parents' visitation decisions are or will be harmful to the children. Only after the grandparents make that threshold showing by clear and convincing evidence may the district court determine what visitation is in the best interests of the children."