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WY Stat § 2-6-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 2 - Procedure for Probate|Section 2-6-202 - Failure of Executor to Petition; Appointment of Administrator.

2-6-202. Failure of executor to petition; appointment of administrator.| If the person named in a will as executor, for thirty (30) days after he has knowledge of the death of the testator and that he is named as executor, fails to petition the proper court for probate of the will and that letters testamentary be issued to him, he may be held to have renounced his right to letters and the court may appoint any other competent person administrator unless good cause for delay is shown.
WY Stat § 2-6-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 2 - Procedure for Probate|Section 2-6-203 - Hearing Upon Petition; Notice Not Required.

2-6-203. Hearing upon petition; notice not required.| (a) Upon the filing of a petition for probate of a will, the court or the clerk may hear it forthwith or at such time and place as the court or clerk may direct, with or without requiring notice, and upon proof of due execution of the will, admit the same to probate.  (b) Notice is not required and there shall be no delay in the hearing, unless good cause appears.
WY Stat § 2-6-204 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 2 - Procedure for Probate|Section 2-6-204 - Proof; Self-Proving Will.

2-6-204. Proof; self-proving will.| A will executed in compliance with W.S. 2-6-114 shall be probated without further proof.
WY Stat § 2-6-205 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 2 - Procedure for Probate|Section 2-6-205 - Proof; Wills Not Self-Proving.

2-6-205. Proof; wills not self-proving.| (a) If the will is not self-proving, proof of a will may be made by the oral or written testimony of one or more of the subscribing witnesses to the will. If the testimony is in writing, it shall be substantially in the following form, executed and sworn to contemporaneously with the execution of the will or at any time thereafter, whether before or after the date of death of the testator:  In the District Court of Wyoming  In and for .................... County  In the Matter of the Estate of) Probate No. ....  .... Deceased ) Testimony of Subscribing  State of )ss Witness on Probate of Will  .... County )  I, ...., being first duly sworn, state:  I reside in the County of ...., State of ....; I knew the testator on the ... day of ..., (year), the date of the instrument, the original or exact reproduction of which is attached hereto, now shown to me, and purporting to be the last will and testament of the said ....; I am one of the subscribing witnesses to said instrument; and on the said date of said instrument, I knew ...., the other subscribing witness; and said instrument was exhibited to me and to the other subscribing witness by the testator, who declared the same to be his last will and testament, and was signed by the testator at ...., in the County of ...., State of ...., on the date shown in said instrument, in the presence of myself and the other subscribing witness; and the other subscribing witness and I then and there, at the request of the testator, in the presence of said testator and in the presence of each other, subscribed our names thereto as witnesses.  Name of witness ....  Address ....  Subscribed and sworn to before me this .... day of...., (year).  Notary Public in and for ....  County of ....  State of ....  (SEAL)  (b) If it is desired to prove the execution of the will by deposition rather than by use of the affidavit form provided in subsection (a) of this section, upon application the clerk shall issue a commission to some officer authorized by the law of this state to take depositions, with the will annexed, and the officer taking the deposition shall exhibit it to the witness for identification, and, when identified by him, shall mark it as "Exhibit ...." and cause the witness to connect his identification with it as such exhibit. Before sending out the commission the clerk shall make and retain in his office a true copy of the will.  (c) If all of the witnesses are deceased or otherwise not available, it is permissible to prove the will by the sworn testimony of two (2) credible disinterested witnesses that the signature to the will is in the handwriting of the person whose will it purports to be, and that the signatures of the witnesses are in the handwriting of the witnesses, or it may be proved by other sufficient evidence of the execution of the will.
WY Stat § 2-6-206 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 2 - Procedure for Probate|Section 2-6-206 - Proof; Holographic Wills.

2-6-206. Proof; holographic wills.| An holographic will may be proved the same as any other private writing.
WY Stat § 2-6-207 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 2 - Procedure for Probate|Section 2-6-207 - Proof; Lost or Destroyed Will; Court May Restrain Personal Representatives Pending Disposition.

2-6-207. Proof; lost or destroyed will; court may restrain personal representatives pending disposition.| (a) Whenever any will is lost or destroyed, the district court shall take proof of the execution and validity thereof to establish the same. All the testimony shall be reduced to writing and signed by the witnesses.  (b) No will shall be proved as a lost or destroyed will unless it is proved to have been in existence at the time of death of the testator, or is shown to have been fraudulently destroyed in the lifetime of the testator, nor unless its provisions are clearly and distinctly proved by at least two (2) credible witnesses.  (c) When a lost will is established, the provisions thereof shall be distinctly stated and certified by the judge, under his hand and the seal of the court, and the certificate shall be filed and recorded as other wills are filed and recorded, and letters testamentary or of administration with the will annexed, shall be issued thereon in the same manner as upon wills produced and duly proved.  (d) If before or during the pendency of an application to prove a lost or destroyed will, letters of administration are granted on the estate of the testator or letters testamentary of any previous will of the testator are granted, the court may restrain the personal representatives so appointed from any acts or proceedings which would be injurious to the legatees or devisees claiming under the lost or destroyed will.
WY Stat § 2-6-208 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 2 - Procedure for Probate|Section 2-6-208 - Order of Preference for Appointment of Executor.

2-6-208. Order of preference for appointment of executor.| (a) Letters testamentary may be granted to one or more persons found to be qualified. Preference for appointment shall be in the following order:  (i) The person designated in the will;  (ii) Any beneficiary named in the will, or a person nominated by the beneficiaries;  (iii) Any creditor of the decedent, or a person nominated by such creditor;  (iv) Such other person as the court may find to be qualified.
WY Stat § 2-6-209 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 2 - Procedure for Probate|Section 2-6-209 - Order Admitting or Disallowing Probate; Mailing of Copies.

2-6-209. Order admitting or disallowing probate; mailing of copies.| The court or the clerk shall enter an order either admitting the will to probate or disallowing probate because of insufficient proof. An order admitting a will to probate shall include the appointment of an executor. The clerk, personal representative or attorney shall transmit by certified mail a copy of the order admitting the will to probate, together with a copy of the will, to each named beneficiary and to each heir of the decedent.
WY Stat § 2-6-210 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 2 - Procedure for Probate|Section 2-6-210 - Form of Letters Testamentary.

2-6-210. Form of letters testamentary.| Letters testamentary must be substantially in the following form:  State of Wyoming )  )ss  County of .... )  The last will of A. B., deceased, a copy of which is hereto attached, having been proved and recorded in the district court within and for the county of ...., C. D. is hereby appointed executor. Witness, G. H., clerk of the district court of the .... district within and for the county of .... with the seal of the court affixed, the .... day of .... A.D. ....  .............................Clerk.
WY Stat § 2-6-211 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 2 - Procedure for Probate|Section 2-6-211 - Authority of Executor Not Designated in Will.

2-6-211. Authority of executor not designated in will.| Executors who are not designated in the will have the same authority over the estates which executors named in the will have.
WY Stat § 2-6-301 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 3 - Actions to Set Aside or Contest|Section 2-6-301 - Filing and Contents of Petition to Revoke.

2-6-301. Filing and contents of petition to revoke.| After a will has been admitted to probate, any person interested may, within the time designated in the notice provided for in W.S. 2-6-122 or 2-7-201, contest the will or the validity of the will. For that purpose he shall file in the court in which the will was proved a petition in writing containing his allegations against the validity of the will or against the sufficiency of the proof, and praying that the probate be revoked.
WY Stat § 2-6-302 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 3 - Actions to Set Aside or Contest|Section 2-6-302 - Summons and Notification; Proceedings Governed by Civil Rules.

2-6-302. Summons and notification; proceedings governed by civil rules.| Upon filing the petition, a summons shall be served upon the executors of the will and the clerk shall send notice by certified mail, with copy of petition attached, to all the legatees and devisees mentioned in the will and all the heirs, so far as known to the petitioner, or to their guardians if any of them are minors, or to their personal representatives if any of them are dead. The summons, service and proceedings shall be governed by the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure.
WY Stat § 2-6-303 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 3 - Actions to Set Aside or Contest|Section 2-6-303 - Annulment and Revocation.

2-6-303. Annulment and revocation.| If upon trial, the jury, or if no jury, the court decides the will is invalid or that it is not sufficiently proved to be the last will of the testator, the probate shall be annulled and revoked.
WY Stat § 2-6-304 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 3 - Actions to Set Aside or Contest|Section 2-6-304 - Cessation of Executor's Powers; Immunity.

2-6-304. Cessation of executor's powers; immunity.| Upon the revocation being made, the powers of the executor cease, but the executor is not liable for any act done in good faith previous to the revocation.
WY Stat § 2-6-305 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 3 - Actions to Set Aside or Contest|Section 2-6-305 - Liability for Payment of Contest Costs.

2-6-305. Liability for payment of contest costs.| The fees and expenses shall be paid by the party contesting the validity or probate of the will if the will in probate is affirmed. If the probate is revoked, the costs shall be paid by the party who resisted the revocation, or out of the property of the decedent, as the court directs.
WY Stat § 2-6-306 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 6 - Wills|Article 3 - Actions to Set Aside or Contest|Section 2-6-306 - When Probate Deemed Conclusive.

2-6-306. When probate deemed conclusive.| If no person within the time designated in the notice provided for in W.S. 2-6-122 or 2-7-201 files a petition to contest the will or its validity, the probate of the will is conclusive.
WY Stat § 2-7-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-7-101 - Presumption of Death; How Estate Handled.

2-7-101. Presumption of death; how estate handled.| When any person leaves his usual place of abode and is not seen or heard from by his relatives or other persons reasonably expected to hear from him for a period of seven (7) years, the person is presumed to be dead. If the person owned real or personal property in Wyoming, administration of the estate of the person may be had in the manner provided by law.
WY Stat § 2-7-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-7-102 - Penalty for Administering Without Proving Will or Taking Letters of Administration.

2-7-102. Penalty for administering without proving will or taking letters of administration.| Any person, except one acting under the provisions of W.S. 2-1-201 and 2-1-202, who administers the personal estate of any person dying after the passage of this act, or any part thereof, without proving the will of the deceased or taking out letters of administration of such personal estate, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail not more than one (1) year or by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500.00) or both.
WY Stat § 2-7-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-7-103 - Personal Representative to Take Possession of Estate.

2-7-103. Personal representative to take possession of estate.| The personal representative shall take possession of all of the estate of the decedent, real and personal, and collect all debts due the decedent or the estate. For the purpose of bringing suit to quiet title or for partition of the estate, the possession of the personal representative is the possession of the distributees. Possession by the distributees is subject to the possession of the personal representative for the purposes of administration as applied to this chapter.
WY Stat § 2-7-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-7-104 - Actions Maintainable by or Against Personal Representatives; Right Generally.

2-7-104. Actions maintainable by or against personal representatives; right generally.| Actions for the recovery of any property, real or personal, or for the possession thereof, or for the destruction, wasting, conversion, injury, taking or carrying away thereof, or to quiet title thereto, or to determine any adverse claim thereon, and all actions founded upon contract, may be maintained by and against the personal representative in all cases in which the action might have been maintained by or against their respective testators or intestates.
WY Stat § 2-7-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-7-105 - Actions Maintainable by or Against Personal Representatives; Actions for Waste by Representatives.

2-7-105. Actions maintainable by or against personal representatives; actions for waste by representatives.| Personal representatives may maintain actions against any person who has wasted, destroyed, taken or carried away, or converted to his own use, the goods of their testator or intestate in his lifetime. They may also maintain actions for trespass committed on the real estate of the decedent in his lifetime.
WY Stat § 2-7-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-7-106 - Actions Maintainable by or Against Personal Representatives; Actions for Waste by Representatives; Against Representatives.

2-7-106. Actions maintainable by or against personal representatives; actions for waste by representatives; against representatives.| Any person or his personal representative may maintain an action against the personal representative of any testator or intestate who in his lifetime has wasted, destroyed, taken or carried away, or converted to his own use, the goods or chattels of any person, or committed any trespass on the real estate of the person, provided the person claiming to be damaged by the tortious acts of the decedent files a claim for the amount of the damages within the time limited in the notice to creditors, and the claim is rejected.
WY Stat § 2-7-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-7-107 - Disposition of Partnership Business.

2-7-107. Disposition of partnership business.| When a partnership exists between the decedent at the time of his death and any other person or persons, the surviving partner or partners may continue in possession of the partnership and settle its business, but the interest of the decedent in the partnership shall be included in the inventory and appraised as other property. The surviving partner or partners shall settle the affairs of the partnership without delay, account to the personal representative and pay the funds as from time to time are payable to him, in the right of the decedent.
WY Stat § 2-7-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-7-108 - Actions on Bond of Former Representatives.

2-7-108. Actions on bond of former representatives.| A personal representative may, in his own name, for the use and benefit of all parties interested in the estate, maintain actions on the bond of any former personal representative or special order for the same estate.
WY Stat § 2-7-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-7-109 - Compromise of Claims; Owed to Estate.

2-7-109. Compromise of claims; owed to estate.| When it appears for the best interest of the estate, the fiduciary may, subject to approval of the court, effect a compromise with any debtor or other obligor, or extend, renew or in any other manner modify the terms of any obligation owing to the estate. If the fiduciary holds a mortgage, pledge or other lien upon property of another person, he may, in lieu of foreclosure, accept a conveyance or transfer of the encumbered assets from the owner thereof in satisfaction of the indebtedness secured by the lien, if it appears for the best interests of the estate and if the court so orders.
WY Stat § 2-7-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-7-110 - Compromise of Claims; Against Estate.

2-7-110. Compromise of claims; against estate.| When a claim against an estate has been filed, or suit thereon is pending, the creditor and the fiduciary may, if it appears for the best interests of the estate, subject to approval of the court, compromise the claim, whether it is due or not due, absolute or contingent, liquidated or unliquidated.
WY Stat § 2-7-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 2 - Notices|Section 2-7-201 - Admission of Will or Estate to Probate and Appointment of Personal Representative; Contents; Form.

2-7-201. Admission of will or estate to probate and appointment of personal representative; contents; form.| Upon admission of a will or an estate of an intestate decedent to probate and issuance of letters, the personal representative shall cause to be published once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks in a daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the probate is pending, a notice of admission of the will or estate to probate and of the appointment of the personal representative. The notice shall state that any action to set aside the probate of the will shall be brought within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of the notice or thereafter be barred. The publication shall include a notice to debtors to make payment and to creditors having claims against the decedent to file them with the necessary vouchers in the office of the clerk of court from which the letters were issued within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of the notice, or thereafter be forever barred. The notice required by this section shall be substantially in the following form:  State of Wyoming ) In the District Court  )ss ....Judicial District  County of .... ) Probate No. ....  In the Matter of the Estate )  )  of ) Notice of Probate  )  ...., Deceased. )  TO ALL PERSONS INTERESTED IN SAID ESTATE:  You are hereby notified that on the .... day of ...., (year), the estate of the above named decedent was admitted to probate by the above named court, and that .... was appointed personal representative thereof.  or-  You are hereby notified that on the .... day of ...., (year), the Last Will and Testament of decedent was admitted to probate by the above named court, and .... was appointed personal representative thereof. Any action to set aside the Will shall be filed in the Court within three months from the date of the first publication of this notice, or thereafter be forever barred.  Notice is further given that all persons indebted to the decedent or to his Estate are requested to make immediate payment to the undersigned at ...., Wyoming.  Creditors having claims against the decedent or the estate are required to file them in duplicate with the necessary vouchers, in the office of the Clerk of said Court, on or before three months after the date of the first publication of this notice, and if such claims are not so filed, unless otherwise allowed or paid, they will be forever barred.  Dated ...., (year). Personal Representative ....  PUBLISH: (once a week for 3 successive weeks).
WY Stat § 2-7-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 7 - Administration of Estates|Article 2 - Notices|Section 2-7-202 - Public Auction of Real or Personal Property; Contents.

2-7-202. Public auction of real or personal property; contents.| (a) When a sale of real or personal property of a decedent is ordered and is to be made at public auction, notice of the time and place of sale shall be published in a daily or weekly newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the probate is pending and in the county in which such property is situate once a week for three (3) consecutive weeks next before the sale, except in the case of perishable and other personal property likely to depreciate in value or which will incur loss by being kept, and as much other personal property as may be necessary to pay the allowance made to the family of the decedent.  (b) Notice shall set forth the time and place of sale and a description of the property offered for sale, and may provide that any and all bids may be rejected by the personal representative.  (c) A copy of the notice shall also be mailed as provided in W.S. 2-7-205.