ARTICLE 5 - REVIVOR AND NEW PARTIES
1-16-501. Proceeding against parties not summoned and persons whose liability unknown.
When judgment is rendered in this state on a joint instrument, parties to the action who were not summoned and persons whose liability was not known to the plaintiff at the rendition of the judgment may be made parties thereto by action in the same court if they can be summoned. When the judgment is rendered elsewhere, the plaintiff may bring suit upon the instrument against the parties not summoned or persons whose liability was unknown, in any county where any of the parties reside or may be summoned.
1-16-502. Revivor of dormant judgments; generally.
When a judgment, including judgments rendered by a circuit court, a transcript of which has been filed in the district court for execution, becomes dormant, it may be revived by the allowance of the court of a motion for revival or by a conditional order of the court that the action be revived. If the order of revival is made by consent of the parties, the action shall be revived. If the order is not made by consent, the order shall be served on the adverse party. When either party to the dormant judgment, his agent or attorney, makes affidavit showing that the adverse party is a nonresident of the state and that the judgment remains unsatisfied in whole or in part and the amount owing thereon, service may be made by publication as in other cases. If sufficient cause is not shown to the contrary, the judgment shall stand revived for the amount which the court finds to be due and unsatisfied thereon. The lien of the judgment for the amount due shall be revived and shall operate from the time of the entry of the conditional order or the filing of the motion.
1-16-503. Revivor of dormant judgments; limitations on time to revive.
(a) No action shall be brought to revive a judgment after ten (10) years after it becomes dormant, unless the party entitled to bring the action was:
(i) A minor or subject to any other legal disability at the time the judgment became dormant, in which case the action may be brought within fifteen (15) years after the disability has ceased; or
(ii) A party in a child support proceeding, in which case the action shall be brought within twenty-one (21) years.
1-16-504. Revivor when parties die after judgment.
If either or both parties die after judgment and before satisfaction thereof, their representatives may be made parties to the judgment in the same manner prescribed for the revival of actions as provided in W.S. 1-16-502. The judgment may be rendered and execution awarded against the representatives of the deceased parties.
1-16-505. Partners made parties to judgment.
The members of a partnership against which a judgment has been rendered in its firm name may by action be made parties to the judgment.
1-16-506. Sureties made parties to judgment.
Sureties to the bond of an executor, administrator, guardian or trustee may by action be made parties to a judgment thereon against the principal.