If you follow the "Sister Wives" clan, then you know that the Brown family didn't stay in Utah forever. In fact, after just one season on the air, Kody Brown, his then-four wives, and all their collective children moved out of the state, and it's not because they wanted a change of scenery. As it turns out, Kody, Meri Brown, Janelle Brown, Christine Brown, and Robyn Brown became the subjects of a state-led investigation, Brown v. Buhman, as their status as polygamists violated Utah state law.
"When the family became the subject of a TLC reality television show in 2010, the Lehi Police Department opened an investigation of the Browns for violating Utah's bigamy statute," the case brief reads, accessed via Lexis Nexis. "Under the aforementioned statute, a person is guilty of bigamy when, knowing he has a husband or wife or knowing the other person has a husband or wife, the person purports to marry another person or cohabits with another person."
So it was goodbye to the Utah house and hello to a new frontier, Nevada. Of their departure from the state, Meri simply said they were "basically ... kicked out," per InTouch Weekly.