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What is the legal definition of domestic abuse in Wyoming?

For the purposes of getting a domestic violence order of protection, “domestic abuse” is when a “household member” does any of the following things to you:

  • physically abuses or threatens to physically abuse you;
  • attempts to cause or causes physical harm or acts that unreasonably restrain your personal freedom, such as forcibly holding you down;
  • puts you in fear of immediate physical harm; or
  • makes you have sex or engage in sexual activity by force, threat of force, or coercion (“duress”).1

1 Wyo. Stat. § 35-21-102(a)(iii)

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