Wyoming Advance Directive Kit — One Form, Every Signature Done Right

Your Signature Should Protect You — Not Just Sit in a Drawer

You know you should have an advance directive. Your doctor has mentioned it. Maybe you watched a parent's medical crisis turn into a family standoff, or a neighbor's estate disappear into probate, and told yourself you'd get around to it.

Here's what "getting around to it" actually looks like in Wyoming: you download the free form from the state website, stare at four parts of dense statutory language, guess at the witness rules, and either give up or sign something a hospital legal team could challenge at the worst possible moment. Meanwhile, Wyoming law quietly decides for you — a default surrogate hierarchy that hands your medical decisions to a rigid family pecking order, and a majority-vote rule that can turn your hospital room into a sibling referendum.

The Wyoming Directive Execution System

The Wyoming Advance Directive & Living Will Kit isn't another blank form. It's a complete Directive Execution System — a 48-page guide decoding the statutory Wyoming Advance Health Care Directive, plus 7 printable worksheets that walk you through choosing your agent, recording your wishes, screening witnesses, signing correctly, and getting the gold-paper WyoPOLST that actually follows you home. Free forms give you paper. This kit gives you paper that works: correctly signed, correctly witnessed, stored where responders will find it.

What's Inside

• The Complete Statutory Form, Decoded — All four parts of Wyoming's unified Advance Health Care Directive (healthcare power of attorney, treatment instructions, organ donation, primary physician), with a plain-English walkthrough of every section so the "who" and the "what" never contradict each other.
• Witness & Notary Screening Checklists — Wyoming's witness exclusions are strict: no agent, no treating provider, no provider employees, no care-facility staff. One disqualified signature can unravel the whole document. A printable screening sheet converts every statutory disqualification into yes-or-no questions for each witness, and maps the cleaner notary path under House Bill 48 if you'd rather skip witness hunting.
• Agent Selection & Conversation Worksheet — Candidate screening criteria, first-choice and alternate records, and the six conversation topics that make the signed document actually work — each with a date column so nothing gets skipped.
• Treatment Preferences Worksheet — Decide every Part 2 choice on paper first: life-sustaining treatment, CPR, tube feeding, pain relief, dementia provisions, trial periods, organ donation, and your primary physician — then transfer your answers into the official form without guessing.
• Signing-Day Checklist — Every item that must be true before, during, and within one week after the signing session, so the directive is valid the day you need it.
• The WyoPOLST Transition Protocol — Your hospital DNR does not follow you home; paramedics answering a 911 call won't honor it. A fillable tracker for translating your directive into a gold-paper WyoPOLST signed by a Wyoming MD, PA, or APRN — including the Section E one-way-door initial, refrigerator posting, and medical-bracelet backup Wyoming EMTs actually look for.
• The Default Surrogate Escape Plan — A clear breakdown of Wyoming's statutory decision-maker hierarchy (W.S. § 35-22-406) and its majority-vote trap, so you understand exactly what you're protecting your family from by naming your own agent.
• Revocation & Update Workflows — The rules differ by section: treatment instructions can be revoked any way (even orally), but the power of attorney requires a signed, dated writing — and divorce automatically revokes your ex-spouse's agent authority. A printable Review & Revocation Tracker logs every life-event trigger (divorce, diagnosis, a move into assisted living) and every revocation.
• The Medicaid Recovery Blind Spot Briefing — Wyoming raised its small-estate threshold to $400,000 in July 2025, and many families assume their planning is done. But the state's expanded Medicaid estate recovery program reaches non-probate assets — joint tenancies, living trusts, even Transfer on Death deeds. The kit shows how healthcare planning, asset transfers, and the mandatory Medicaid clearance certificate fit together so a long care stay doesn't become a lien on the family ranch.
• Dementia & Pregnancy Provisions Guide — Two Wyoming-specific rules almost nobody mentions: your directive must be executed while you still have capacity (critical after a dementia diagnosis), and the directive is legally suspended during pregnancy. The kit shows you how to plan around both.
• Storage & Distribution Log — The original doesn't belong in a safe deposit box. A fillable log of exactly who gets copies — agent, doctors, hospital registration — where the original lives, and where the WyoPOLST goes so responders find it in seconds.

Who This Is For

• Wyoming adults who want their medical wishes documented properly the first time — without a $500–$2,000 attorney package
• Ranch and farm families coordinating healthcare directives with land, mineral rights, and Transfer on Death deeds
• Adult children managing an aging parent's care who need legal authority at the bedside, not just verbal instructions a hospital can ignore
• Recent transplants who need a Wyoming-specific directive their new hospital network will honor without a verification delay
• Parents of University of Wyoming students who've discovered HIPAA locks them out of their adult child's medical decisions
• Anyone facing a diagnosis — or a surgery — who wants this handled before it becomes urgent

Why Not Just Use the Free State Forms?

The free forms are legally valid blanks — and that's all they are. They won't tell you that a care-facility employee can't witness your signature, that your directive suspends during pregnancy, that your hospital DNR is meaningless to paramedics at your front door, or that your Transfer on Death Deed doesn't shield assets from Medicaid recovery. The state gives you paper scattered across a dozen agency pages with no unified sequence. Attorneys charge $150–$350 an hour to connect those dots. This kit connects them for you — every signature block, every witness rule, every coordination step, in one guided system you can finish in an evening.

— Less Than One Hour of a Lawyer's Time

An attorney-drafted directive package in Cheyenne or Casper runs $500 to $2,000. A single probate proceeding on a modest estate can cost tens of thousands in statutory fees. The kit costs a fraction of either — and it's yours tonight, no consultation, no waitlist.

Start with the free Wyoming Advance Directive Quick-Start — a one-page overview of the statutory form, the witness rules, and the execution sequence. If you want the complete system, the full kit is ready when you are.

Your voice, documented. Your family, spared the guessing. That's what this kit is for.