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 (Wyoming’s own Wills, Decedents’ Estates and Probate Code, non-UPC) cold but still loses an afternoon a week hunting the current homestead number, the Wyoming Medicaid (Division of Healthcare Financing) slot posture, whether the latest Wyoming State Bar changes how you scope an engagement, or whether a recent Wyoming Supreme Court decision just moved the law on capacity, undue influence, or a trustee’s duties. What’s below is what mattered in Wyoming lately — the week’s developments and the recent rulings from the bench.
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 from the last seven days that I think actually matter to a Wyoming T&E solo. Each one has a read that lands on your practice specifically — and each one comes with the citation so you can verify the detail yourself before you use it with a client.
SF0097 (2025) amended the Wyoming Uniform Trust Code: it tightened the ‘qualified trustee’ definition, expanded trustee tax-election and grantor-reimbursement powers, and abolished the rule against perpetuities for noncharitable purpose trusts — reinforcing Wyoming’s no-income-tax, up-to-1,000-year dynasty-trust situs.
If you draft or administer Wyoming situs trusts, the qualified-trustee definition and the expanded trustee powers are the operative changes — check your trustee-appointment and tax-reimbursement language against the amended UTC. The enrolled-act text was JS-gated at the legislature’s site this pass, so confirm the exact section edits against the primary enrolled PDF before relying on a specific subsection.
Wyo. SF0097 (2025) · WYOLEG.GOV · eff. July 1, 2025
Effective July 1, 2025, the maximum estate value for distribution by affidavit (Wyo. Stat. § 2-1-201) and summary distribution (§ 2-1-205) rose from $200,000 to $400,000, so far more Wyoming estates now skip full probate.
Your intake screening, fee quotes, and the ‘will this go through probate?’ answer all need re-checking against the new threshold — and against the decedent’s date of death, since the $200,000 figure still governs deaths before July 1, 2025. A matter you would have quoted as full administration a year ago may now resolve by affidavit.
Wyo. Stat. §§ 2-1-201, 2-1-205 · Wyo. Judicial Branch · WYOCOURTS.GOV · eff. July 1, 2025
The Wyoming State Bar’s Estate Planning, Elder Law, Trust & Probate Section reported to the Joint Judiciary Committee (interim 2025) that its working group supports keeping Wyoming’s own probate code with targeted improvements rather than adopting the Uniform Probate Code.
Plan your forms and your CLE around the existing Title 2 code — the signal from the section is that Wyoming is not headed for a UPC overhaul, so the cites you rely on stay stable, with targeted fixes rather than a wholesale rewrite. Watch the interim-committee output for the specific provisions in play.
Wyo. State Bar EP/Elder Law/Trust & Probate Section · Joint Judiciary Comm. (interim 2025) · WYOLEG.GOV
Decisions that bind a Wyoming practitioner — Wyoming’s appellate courts and the federal courts covering Wyoming, including the U.S. 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.
On certified questions from the district court, the Wyoming Supreme Court addressed whether an action contesting the validity of a will under W.S. § 2-6-301 et seq. must be filed as a completely new and separate civil action — with its own case number and caption, apart from the probate matter. The Court answered no. Because the first question was answered in the negative, it did not reach the second question (whether failing to file separately would be a jurisdictional defect).
For Wyoming probate practice, a will-validity contest does not have to be spun off into a standalone civil action — it may be brought within the existing probate proceeding. That removes a procedural trap: a contestant who files the challenge inside the probate matter, rather than as a separate case, has not committed a fatal filing error. Confirm local practice on captioning, but the statute does not demand a separate action.
In re Estate of Haack, 2026 WY 17 (Wyo. Feb. 5, 2026) — Wyoming Supreme Court opinion.
This slot holds the next significant trusts-and-estates or estate-recovery decision from Wyoming’s appellate courts or the federal courts covering Wyoming. The lane reads each opinion before it lands here, and reads-and-discards matters that aren’t trusts-and-estates — criminal, family, commercial/LLC fiduciary, tax, and cases where an estate or trust is only a party. When the trailing window has no further ruling, this row says so plainly rather than inventing one.
Nothing further to re-paper from the bench this period; controlling authority is otherwise unchanged.
This week in Wyoming for the T&E solo with Wyoming Medicaid clients: the developments from the Wyoming State Bar and the Wyoming Department of Health (Medicaid) that actually moved your practice this period — each one primary-source verified.
Bar and Medicaid changes land on different schedules and aren’t indexed by practice focus. Every item here was checked against its primary source, with the link, so you can verify before relying on it.