Wyoming Estate Planning Kit — Wills, TOD Deeds & the $400K Shortcut

Your Home Passes Without Probate. Your Ranch Stays Intact. Your Out-of-State Kids Can Actually Serve as Executor.

You've built a life in Wyoming — a home, maybe ranch land or mineral interests, savings, a family. But if your documents aren't set up under Wyoming's specific statutes, state law decides what happens to all of it: formal probate that drags on for a year and costs thousands, a spouse's share capped by intestacy defaults, an out-of-state child rejected as executor, and royalty interests split into smaller and smaller fractions with every generation.

Here's what most Wyoming families don't know: in July 2025, the state raised its small estate threshold from $200,000 to $400,000. Most Wyoming estates now qualify to skip formal probate entirely — but only if you structure things correctly before death. And Wyoming is a "no-form" state: the courts and legal aid provide educational pamphlets, but they are not allowed to give you the actual Will templates, deeds, and designation forms you need.

The Wyoming Probate Bypass System

This is not a generic national will template. The Wyoming Basic Estate Planning Kit is built around the exact statutes, signing ceremonies, and county recording procedures that govern Wyoming estates — including the 2025 threshold change that national platforms like LegalZoom still haven't updated for, the out-of-state executor trap in W.S. § 2-11-301 that generic kits ignore completely, and Wyoming's expanded Medicaid estate recovery rule that reaches assets most people assume are safe.

Every template comes with plain-English instructions: exactly what to sign, who can (and can't) witness, where to notarize, and which county office to record with.

What You Get

• Wyoming Last Will and Testament Template — Formatted for strict compliance with W.S. § 2-6-112, with clauses for guardianship nominations, executor appointments, and specific bequests. Because a Will that fails on a technicality is worse than no Will at all — it gives your family false confidence.
• Statutory Self-Proving Affidavit — The notarized affidavit under W.S. § 2-6-114 that lets the probate court accept your Will automatically. Without it, your executor may be hunting down your witnesses years later to testify in court. With it, that problem disappears.
• Transfer-on-Death Deed Template — Pass your home, cabin, or ranch land outside probate under W.S. § 2-18-103, with county recording instructions. You keep full control — sell, lease, mortgage — while you're alive. And because Wyoming's Medicaid recovery can still reach TOD property, the kit tells you plainly when this deed fits your situation and when it doesn't.
• Vehicle Transfer-on-Death Guide (Form MV-308) — The overlooked Wyoming shortcut that moves cars, trucks, and trailers to your heirs without probate paperwork or court involvement.
• Out-of-State Executor Toolkit — If your child in Colorado, Utah, or Montana will serve as executor, Wyoming law (W.S. § 2-11-301) requires them to designate an in-state resident process agent — miss it and the court can reject the appointment. The kit includes the designation form and filing instructions. No national template includes this.
• Small Estate Shortcut Worksheet — A step-by-step calculation under W.S. § 2-1-201 that tells you whether your estate qualifies for the $400,000 summary distribution shortcut, what counts toward the threshold, and which path your heirs will actually walk.
• 12-Chapter Guide + 90-Day Action Plan — Will requirements, intestacy defaults, the spousal elective share and the Briggs loophole, Medicaid estate recovery (including the TEFRA lien and Certificate of Clearance gates), ranch and mineral rights succession, digital assets under RUFADAA, powers of attorney, probate fee schedules, and the post-death administration timeline.
• 20-Item Estate Planning Checklist — A structured audit of your entire estate designed to catch the silent killers: beneficiary designations that override your Will, outdated documents written before the 2025 law change, and mineral interests with no succession plan.

Who This Kit Is Built For

• Homeowners and retirees under the $400,000 threshold — If your estate qualifies for summary distribution, a $3,000 attorney-drafted trust is probably overkill. A Will plus the right TOD designations gets you the same probate avoidance for a fraction of the cost.
• Ranch and farm families with mineral rights — Wyoming's split estates mean surface and subsurface rights often part ways, and royalty interests fragment with every generation. The succession chapter shows you how to consolidate and direct these assets before they scatter across a dozen heirs.
• Parents whose kids have moved out of state — Your executor will be managing your Wyoming estate from hundreds of miles away. The kit makes that legally seamless instead of an administrative rejection.
• Anyone with a pre-2025 estate plan — Documents written before the threshold change may be built on assumptions that no longer hold. The checklist tells you in 30 minutes whether yours still works.

Why Not Free Resources or National Platforms?

Wyoming's courts and Equal Justice Wyoming provide excellent self-help materials — for divorce and family law. For estate planning, Wyoming is a "no-form" state: they can educate you, but they cannot legally hand you a customizable Will or deed template. The free resources tell you what the law says; they cannot give you the documents.

National platforms charge $99–$399 for document assembly built on generic templates — and their Wyoming materials still reference the old $200,000 small estate threshold, say nothing about the resident process agent requirement for out-of-state executors, and don't address how Wyoming's expanded Medicaid estate recovery definition (W.S. § 42-4-206) reaches into TOD deeds, joint accounts, and living trusts.

And this kit is honest where others oversell: a simple Will does not shield assets from Medicaid recovery in Wyoming, and the kit says so plainly — then shows you exactly what the state can and cannot reach, so you know whether your situation fits a DIY plan or genuinely needs a specialist.

What You Get — At a Glance

• Will template + Self-Proving Affidavit, compliant with W.S. § 2-6-112 and § 2-6-114
• Transfer-on-Death deed template with county recording instructions
• Resident Process Agent Designation form for out-of-state executors
• Small estate qualification worksheet for the $400,000 shortcut
• Durable financial POA template + digital asset inventory (RUFADAA-compliant)
• 12-chapter guide + 2 appendices with a 90-day action plan
• 20-item estate audit checklist
• Instant PDF download — no subscription, no recurring fees

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If the kit doesn't deliver what you need, email us and we'll refund your purchase. No questions, no time limit.

— Less Than One Hour of Attorney Time

A Wyoming estate planning attorney runs $200–$400 an hour, and a full attorney-drafted plan starts around $1,500–$3,000. This kit gives you the documents most Wyoming families need — formatted for current Wyoming law, including the 2025 changes — for a fraction of one billable hour.

Start with the free checklist to audit your estate and see whether you qualify for the $400,000 shortcut. When you're ready for the templates and step-by-step guide, the complete kit is waiting.