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WY Stat § 2-2-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-2-106 - Powers and Duties of Court Commissioners; Generally.

2-2-106. Powers and duties of court commissioners; generally.| The court commissioner of each district court shall, upon a general order made for that purpose, examine the bonds filed by the personal representatives, with a view to ascertaining their sufficiency, and may approve the same. He may examine any inventory, sale bill, account current, except final accounts and vouchers filed therewith, or examine into the condition of an estate generally. Upon a specific order of the court, the commissioner may make orders for the sale of personal property at public or private auction, for the compounding of debts, for the settlement of an estate as insolvent, for the approval of bonds and all other orders of an ex parte nature as may facilitate the settlement of estates. The orders shall be in writing, signed by the judge or commissioner issuing the same, and shall be filed and recorded.
WY Stat § 2-2-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-2-107 - Powers and Duties of Court Commissioners; Compelling Attendance of Witnesses; Process.

2-2-107. Powers and duties of court commissioners; compelling attendance of witnesses; process.| In order to make such examination, the court commissioner is entitled to process to compel the personal representative and other witnesses to appear and testify before him on the hearing, and for the production of books, papers, monies or other things pertinent to the matter to be heard.
WY Stat § 2-2-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-2-108 - Powers and Duties of Court Commissioners; Compelling Attendance of Witnesses; Failure to Appear or Testify.

2-2-108. Powers and duties of court commissioners; compelling attendance of witnesses; failure to appear or testify.| Any person refusing to appear or testify before a commissioner may be cited for contempt and held to bail to answer to the alleged contempt as soon as reasonably possible. The commissioner shall report his findings upon the matter in writing, to the court for its action. Exception may be filed to the report which shall be heard and determined as in other cases.
WY Stat § 2-2-109 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-2-109 - Authority of Other Judges to Act When District Judge Sick.

2-2-109. Authority of other judges to act when district judge sick.| Whenever any judge of the district court is absent from the state, sick or otherwise unable to attend to the duties of his office, any other district judge shall have the same powers as the original judge, including the power to examine into all matters, make all orders and direct the affairs of the administration of estates.
WY Stat § 2-2-110 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-2-110 - When Judge Disqualified; Exception.

2-2-110. When judge disqualified; exception.| When the judge before whom probate matters are brought is interested as next of kin to the decedent, or as the legatee or devisee under the will, or has any other interest in the outcome of, or concerning the matters brought before him, he shall call in some other district judge to hear and determine all such matters. Being a witness to a will does not itself disqualify a district judge, after the will has been probated, from hearing any matters concerning the will or the estate being probated except matters relating to the admission of the will to probate and contests thereon, and the granting of letters testamentary or of administration thereunder.
WY Stat § 2-2-111 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-2-111 - Presumption After Ten Years Notices Properly Given.

2-2-111. Presumption after ten years notices properly given.| In any estate, wherein a decree of final settlement and distribution is or has been entered by any court of this state it shall, after ten (10) years from the date of the decree, be conclusively presumed that all notices required by law have been made and for the times and in the manner required by law.
WY Stat § 2-2-201 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 2 - Clerk|Section 2-2-201 - Records Required to Be Kept; Probate Docket; Reports to Be Made by Commissioner.

2-2-201. Records required to be kept; probate docket; reports to be made by commissioner.| (a) The clerk of district court in each county shall maintain a system for the recording of wills and probate including:  (i) Proceedings of the guardianship of infants and incompetent persons;  (ii) All letters testamentary and of administration;  (iii) All inventories and records of sales of personal estate;  (iv) A general entry, claim and allowance docket.  (b) The clerk of district court shall maintain a system for the recording of each decedent's estate including all proceedings concerning the probate of each will, the entry of the inventory appraisement, all claims allowed, including costs of the final distribution of the estate, and the final settlement of the estate.  (c) The clerk of court shall prepare for the use of the court a probate docket containing:  (i) All appointments made;  (ii) All pending petitions for the sale of real estate, including the parties thereto;  (iii) All pending petitions for the release of sureties;  (iv) All pending petitions for the removal of personal representatives.  (d) The court commissioner is bound to furnish:  (i) The record of all reports and accounts filed;  (ii) All claims against the estate pending for trial;  (iii) All delinquencies of personal representatives to discharge any duty in the manner or within the time required by law or order of the court.
WY Stat § 2-2-202 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 2 - Clerk|Section 2-2-202 - Preparation and Contents of Probate Docket; Distribution of Copies; Call of Docket.

2-2-202. Preparation and contents of probate docket; distribution of copies; call of docket.| (a) At least once every six (6) months, the clerk of the district court in each county of the state shall make a docket of all estates of deceased persons pending in his county which shall include:  (i) Title of the estate;  (ii) Date of letters testamentary or letters of administration;  (iii) Name or names of the executors or administrators; and  (iv) The names of the attorneys of record.  (b) As soon as the docket is made, one (1) copy shall be furnished to the judge of the district court of his county and one (1) copy shall be furnished upon request to each attorney of record in the estates.  (c) The judge of the district court in each county shall, at least once every six (6) months, read the probate docket in open court and shall make an order in each estate as he deems necessary to expedite the progress and closing thereof.
WY Stat § 2-2-203 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 2 - Clerk|Section 2-2-203 - Authority to Approve Bonds.

2-2-203. Authority to approve bonds.| All bonds required by this act may be approved by the clerk of the district court wherein they are required to be filed.
WY Stat § 2-2-301 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-301 - Contents of Orders and Decrees; Recording.

2-2-301. Contents of orders and decrees; recording.| Orders and decrees of the court in probate proceedings need not recite the existence of facts or the performance of acts upon which the jurisdiction of the court or judge may depend, but need only contain the matters ordered or adjudged, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. All orders, judgments and decrees of the court shall be entered at length in the proper journal of the court. When a judgment or decree is made setting apart a homestead, confirming a sale, making a distribution of real property, or determining any other matter affecting the title to real property, a certified copy shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk of the county in which the property is situated.
WY Stat § 2-2-302 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-302 - Notice Imparted From Date of Recording.

2-2-302. Notice imparted from date of recording.| When it is provided in this chapter that any order or decree of the court shall be recorded in the office of the county clerk, notice is imparted to all persons from the time of recording.
WY Stat § 2-2-303 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-303 - Citations; Requirements Generally; Contents.

2-2-303. Citations; requirements generally; contents.| (a) Citations shall be directed to the person to be cited, signed by the clerk, and issued under the seal of the court, and shall contain:  (i) The title of the proceeding;  (ii) A brief statement of the nature of the proceeding; and  (iii) A direction that the person cited appear at a time and place specified.
WY Stat § 2-2-304 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-304 - Citations; Issuance.

2-2-304. Citations; issuance.| The citation may be issued by the clerk upon the application of any party, without an order of the judge or commissioner, except in cases in which an order is expressly required by the provisions of this chapter.
WY Stat § 2-2-305 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-305 - Citations; Service.

2-2-305. Citations; service.| The citation shall be served in the same manner as a summons in a civil action.
WY Stat § 2-2-306 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-306 - Citations; Used to Give Personal Notice.

2-2-306. Citations; used to give personal notice.| When a personal notice is required, and no mode of giving it is prescribed in this chapter, it shall be given by citation.
WY Stat § 2-2-307 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-307 - Citations; When to Be Served.

2-2-307. Citations; when to be served.| When no other time is specially prescribed in this chapter, citations shall be served at least five (5) days before the return day thereof.
WY Stat § 2-2-308 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-308 - Provisions of Rules of Civil Procedure Applicable; Parties.

2-2-308. Provisions of Rules of Civil Procedure applicable; parties.| Except as otherwise provided in the Probate Code, the provisions of the Wyoming Rules of Civil Procedure are applicable to and constitute the rules of practice for all proceedings, new trials or appeals. In all proceedings the party affirming is contestant and the one denying or avoiding is contestee.
WY Stat § 2-2-309 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-309 - Trial by Court or Jury.

2-2-309. Trial by court or jury.| If no jury is demanded, the court shall try the issues joined. If, on written demand, a jury is called for by either party in a matter triable under W.S. 2-2-308, one shall be had as in other civil cases.
WY Stat § 2-2-310 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-310 - Appointment of Attorney for Minors or Nonresidents; Compensation; Failure to Appoint of No Effect.

2-2-310. Appointment of attorney for minors or nonresidents; compensation; failure to appoint of no effect.| At or before the hearing of petitions and contests for the probate of wills, for letters testamentary or of administration, for sales of real estate and confirmation thereof, settlements, partitions, and distribution of estates, setting apart homesteads, and all other proceedings where all the parties interested in the estate are required to be notified, the court may appoint an attorney-at-law to represent the devisees, legatees, heirs or creditors of the decedent who are minors and have no general guardian in the county, or who are nonresidents of the state, and those interested who, though they are neither minors or nonresidents, are unrepresented. The order shall specify the names of the parties, so far as known, for whom the attorney is appointed. The attorney may receive a fee, to be fixed by the court, for his services, which shall be paid out of the funds of the estate as necessary expenses of administration, and upon distribution may be charged to the party represented by the attorney. If, for any cause, it becomes necessary, the court may substitute another attorney for the one first appointed, in which case the fee shall be proportionately divided. The failure to appoint an attorney will not affect the validity of any of the proceedings.
WY Stat § 2-2-311 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-311 - Payment of Costs.

2-2-311. Payment of costs.| When it is not otherwise prescribed in this chapter, the district court, or the supreme court on appeal, may order costs to be paid by any party to the proceedings, or out of the assets of the estate. Execution for the costs may issue out of the court.
WY Stat § 2-2-312 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 3 - Procedure|Section 2-2-312 - Service of Process on Guardian; Right of Guardian to Waive.

2-2-312. Service of process on guardian; right of guardian to waive.| Whenever an infant or incompetent person has a guardian of his estate residing in this state, personal service upon the guardian of any process, notice or order of the court concerning the estate of a deceased person in which the ward is interested is equivalent to service upon the ward, and it is the duty of the guardian to attend to the interests of the ward in the matter. The guardian may also appear for his ward and waive any process, notice or order to show cause which an adult or a person of sound mind might waive.
WY Stat § 2-2-401 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 4 - Fees|Section 2-2-401 - Schedule; Additional Charges.

2-2-401. Schedule; additional charges.| (a) For probate matters filed or commenced, the clerk of the district court shall collect fees as follows:  (i) Original filing fee $110.00  (ii) When an inventory or appraisement is filed showing an estate or guardianship valued at five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) or more, additional fees based upon value shall be collected as follows:  (A) Value five thousand dollars ($5,000.00) to ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) $5.00  (B) Each additional ten thousand dollars ($10,000.00) of value or portion thereof $5.00  (iii) In addition to the original filing fee under paragraph (a)(i) of this subsection, a court automation fee in the amount of forty dollars ($40.00) which shall be deposited into the judicial systems automation account established by W.S. 5-2-120;  (iv) In addition to the original filing fee under paragraph (a)(i) of this subsection, an indigent civil legal services fee in the amount of ten dollars ($10.00), which shall be deposited into the indigent civil legal services account established by W.S. 5-2-121.  (b) The original filing fee shall cover the general filing activity of the clerk's office and a certification of one (1) copy of any order, decree or judgment at the time of its filing for each party. Other copy charges and certification fees shall be assessed at the same amount as established for other business of the court.  (c) Additional fees or charges may be assessed for particular matters as ordered by the court.
WY Stat § 2-2-402 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 4 - Fees|Section 2-2-402 - Responsibility of Clerk for Collection; Distribution.

2-2-402. Responsibility of clerk for collection; distribution.| The clerk of the district court of each county is responsible upon his bond for the collection or payment of any fees in probate matters which are to be collected by him or when the court orders fees to be paid to the clerk for fees not specially provided for in W.S. 2-2-401. All of the fees shall be paid to the county treasurer at the end of each month.
WY Stat § 2-2-403 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 4 - Fees|Section 2-2-403 - Allowance Where Not Specially Provided.

2-2-403. Allowance where not specially provided.| When there are no fees specially provided for the performance of any duty under the Probate Code, reasonable fees may be ordered and allowed as the court may deem best.
WY Stat § 2-2-404 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 2 - Probate Court|Article 4 - Fees|Section 2-2-404 - Payment of Court Commissioner.

2-2-404. Payment of court commissioner.| (a) The court commissioner, in performing the duties prescribed by the Probate Code, shall receive the following fees in full payment for all services, which shall be taxed as costs against the estate:  (i) For attending any matter, five dollars ($5.00) per day for the time actually employed in hearing the matter;  (ii) For each order made by him, three dollars ($3.00);  (iii) For all other services he shall receive the same fees which clerks of courts receive for similar services.
WY Stat § 2-3-101 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 3 - Fiduciaries|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-3-101 - Oath.

2-3-101. Oath.| Before letters testamentary or of administration are issued, the personal representative shall take and subscribe an oath before some officer authorized to administer oaths, that he will perform according to law the duties of executor or administrator, which oath shall be attached to the letters.
WY Stat § 2-3-102 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 3 - Fiduciaries|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-3-102 - Bond Required; Sureties; Form; Amount; Ascertaining Value of Property.

2-3-102. Bond required; sureties; form; amount; ascertaining value of property.| Except as provided by W.S. 2-3-111, every person to whom letters testamentary or of administration are issued shall, before receiving them, execute a bond to the state of Wyoming with two (2) or more sufficient individual sureties or one (1) sufficient corporate surety approved by the district court or the commissioner or clerk. The bond shall be joint and several and the penalty shall not be less than the value of the personal property, and the probable value of the annual rents, profits and issues of real property belonging to the estate. The value shall be ascertained by the district court or the above named officers by examining on oath the party applying and any other person. The sureties shall justify on written oath attached to the bond in an amount equal in the aggregate to the penalty thereof.
WY Stat § 2-3-103 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 3 - Fiduciaries|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-3-103 - Letters and Bonds to Be Recorded.

2-3-103. Letters and bonds to be recorded.| All letters testamentary or of administration issued to, and all bonds executed by personal representatives, with the affidavits and certificates thereon, shall be recorded by the clerk of the court.
WY Stat § 2-3-104 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 3 - Fiduciaries|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-3-104 - Appointment Orders to State Qualification Time; Lapses.

2-3-104. Appointment orders to state qualification time; lapses.| Whenever an order appointing a personal representative is made by any district court or officer having authority to make the appointment, the order shall state the time within which the personal representative shall qualify by giving the bond and taking the oath required by law. Upon failure of any personal representative to qualify within the time fixed, his appointment shall lapse and another appointment shall be made.
WY Stat § 2-3-105 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 3 - Fiduciaries|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-3-105 - Additional Bond Required Upon Sale of Real Estate; When Required.

2-3-105. Additional bond required upon sale of real estate; when required.| The district court may require an additional bond whenever the sale of any real estate belonging to the estate is ordered, unless it satisfactorily appears that the penalty of the bond given before receiving letters or any bond given in place thereof is equal to the value of the personal property remaining with or that will come into the possession of the personal representative, including the annual rents, profits and issues of real estate, and the probable amount to be realized on the sale of real estate ordered sold.
WY Stat § 2-3-106 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 3 - Fiduciaries|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-3-106 - Additional Bond Required Upon Sale of Real Estate; Conditions.

2-3-106. Additional bond required upon sale of real estate; conditions.| The additional bond shall be conditioned that the personal representative shall faithfully execute the duties of the trust according to law, and the sureties shall justify as provided in W.S. 2-3-102.
WY Stat § 2-3-107 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 3 - Fiduciaries|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-3-107 - Separate Bond Required From Each Personal Representative.

2-3-107. Separate bond required from each personal representative.| When two (2) or more persons are appointed personal representatives, a separate bond is required from each of them in the same amount as would be required from one.
WY Stat § 2-3-108 (2021)
2021 Wyoming Statutes|Title 2 - Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code|Chapter 3 - Fiduciaries|Article 1 - In General|Section 2-3-108 - Several Recoveries on Same Bond Allowed.

2-3-108. Several recoveries on same bond allowed.| The bond shall not be void upon the first recovery. It may be used and recovered upon from time to time by any person aggrieved, in his own name, until the whole penalty is exhausted.