Your state's pack. New issues arrive periodically on Mondays. Bookmark it. I built this for the Wyoming T&E solo who knows Title 2 cold but still loses an afternoon a week tracking the moving Wyoming Medicaid pieces.
For licensed attorneys. This pack is general legal information and professional commentary for practicing attorneys — it is not legal advice, does not apply to any specific matter, and creates no attorney-client relationship. Verify every authority against the cited primary source before relying on it with a client. Published by Mike Moss, a Utah-admitted attorney, as an AI-enablement information product; it is not an offer of legal services and is not a representation that the author is admitted to practice in your jurisdiction.
Three developments I think actually matter to a Wyoming T&E solo. Each has a read that lands on your practice specifically — and each comes with a reachable citation so you can verify it yourself before you use it with a client.
WDH recovers from the estate of a recipient age 55+, and Wyoming defines the recoverable estate to include assets conveyed through joint tenancy, tenancy in common, survivorship life estate, living trust, or other arrangement (W.S. § 42-4-206).
This is the structural fact a Wyoming Medicaid plan is built around — a TOD deed, joint tenancy, or living trust alone does not defeat recovery. Plan for the expanded reach, not just probate avoidance.
W.S. § 42-4-206 · health.wyo.gov
Since 2013, Wyoming has allowed transfer-on-death deeds for real estate under the Uniform Real Property TOD Act (W.S. § 2-18-101 et seq.).
The TOD deed is a clean probate-avoidance tool, but because Wyoming's recovery is expanded, a TOD-deeded home is still within the recoverable estate — don't sell the deed to a client as a Medicaid shield. Use it for probate efficiency and plan recovery separately.
W.S. § 2-18-101 et seq. · wyoleg.gov
Maximum CSRA is $162,660 (minimum $32,532); Wyoming applies the $752,000 home-equity floor; MMNA range $2,643.75–$4,066.50.
Two places this lands: community-spouse protection math and high-value-home clients. Flag the 2028 OBBBA flat $1,000,000 home-equity cap now.
42 U.S.C. § 1396p · CMS 2026 Standards (medicaid.gov)
Decisions that bind a Wyoming practitioner — the Wyoming Supreme Court, the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming, and the Tenth Circuit — read for what actually changes how you draft, advise, and plan. Trusts and estates broadly, not Medicaid alone: wills and capacity, undue influence, fiduciary duty, trust construction, and estate recovery. One read, the holding, and the official cite.
A married couple quieted title to a lot in 2012, the decree’s caption styling them “Husband and Wife.” After the husband died, his biological daughter sued to declare that her parents held as tenants in common, so her father’s half passed to his estate (and to her) rather than to her mother by survivorship. The Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed dismissal. A quiet-title judgment is a “conveyance” under Wyo. Stat. § 34-1-102, and a court must “give effect to every word stated therein” — including the caption, which is not “merely a procedural identifier.” Under the common law in force in 2012, the words “husband and wife” “manifested an intent to create a tenancy by the entirety.” And § 34-1-140(b) — deeming such language to establish a tenancy by the entirety unless the deed says otherwise — merely “codified an already existing presumption,” so even applying the earlier common law the result was the same, and the daughter was not prejudiced.
Police how marital real property is captioned and designated: in Wyoming, “husband and wife” on a conveyance — even buried in the caption of a quiet-title decree — defaults to a survivorship-bearing tenancy by the entirety, which controls who takes at the first death and can defeat a non-marital child’s claim against the estate. Counsel blended-family clients that entireties property bypasses the probate estate entirely, and if co-tenants intend something other than survivorship, say so expressly in the instrument.
Lewis v. Wolfe, 2026 WY 63 (Wyo. June 8, 2026) · official opinion — Wyoming Supreme Court
This week in Wyoming for the T&E solo with Wyoming Medicaid clients: what the Wyoming State Bar, the probate/elder-law bar, and WDH bulletins put in front of you.
The Wyoming State Bar CLE calendar, the probate and elder-law feeds, and the WDH Medicaid estate-recovery updates all publish on different schedules. This is that sift, already done, with the link on each item.