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Wyoming probate: rules, process, costs, executor fees and deadlines

Small-estate limit: $400,000

This guide explains probate in Wyoming: Wyoming’s District Court may summarily distribute both personal and real property, including mineral interests, under a $400,000 net-of-liens ceiling.

Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.

Answer first

Wyoming simplified probate route

Up to $400,000; usable 30 days after death. Source: Wyo. Stat. § 2-1-205.

Summary procedure for distribution of personal or real property

Screen a specific Wyoming estate with the calculators on the small-estate page and the executor-fee page, or compare states in the full estate navigator.

What the reviewed rules establish

Simplified route

$400,000

Summary procedure for distribution of personal or real property; usable 30 days after death.

Eligibility and caveats

Executor compensation

Statutory schedule

A statutory percentage schedule applies. Source: Wyo. Stat. § 2-7-803.

Compensation detail

Wyoming decision map

The four facts that change the Wyoming route

Each Wyoming answer below links to the page that sets out its source.

QuestionRecorded Wyoming answer
What route is being screened?Summary procedure for distribution of personal or real property
What property and basis count?probate property within the rule's stated scope; net of enforceable liens and encumbrances.
What is the amount screen?$400,000
What is the time or deadline record?30 days after death; creditor deadlines: separate clocks by triggering event
What does the cost record establish?$160 is the recorded statewide amount.
What does compensation use?Statutory percentage schedule, measured on the estate accounting.

Limits and unresolved costs

  • No official judiciary resource URL passed the required HTTP 200 check.
  • Outer creditor nonclaim limit was not located.

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What Wyoming courts publish

Every link is probed before each release.

No Wyoming court document is linked here. The notes below state why, rather than leaving the absence unexplained.

Limits on court material

  • Wyoming Judicial Branch probate-help and court-locator URLs returned HTTP 403 during verification, so no nonresolving resource is published.
  • Wyoming's summary-distribution route under Wyo. Stat. 2-1-205 is started by an application the applicant drafts, so there is no official statewide small-estate form to download. The Wyoming Judicial Branch probate-help and court-locator pages returned HTTP 403 to automated requests during this review, so no court link is published here rather than one this site could not prove reachable. Ask the District Court clerk in the county of residence for local requirements.

Wyoming primary sources

Every quotation, edition label and machine check is on the Wyoming source record.

Wyoming record: 4/4 verified, 12 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction