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Is a self-written will legal in Wyoming?
Yes. Wyoming recognizes wills you write yourself, as long as they meet the state's signing requirements. The governing statute is Wyo. Stat. §2-6-101 et seq.
Your will needs to be in writing, signed by you, and witnessed by 2 adults. You don't need a notary for the will itself to be valid, but adding a notarized "self-proving" affidavit makes the probate process faster later (this tool generates that for you automatically). Wyoming also recognizes handwritten ("holographic") wills, written entirely in your own handwriting and signed.
You must be at least 18 years old and of sound mind. Choose witnesses who don't inherit under your will: some states void or reduce a gift to a witness, and the exact Wyoming rule is covered below. This tool walks you through the rules so you don't trip over them.
What it costs to make a will in Wyoming
A Wyoming estate-planning attorney typically charges $300 to $600 for a simple will, and $1,000 to $1,500 for a will-plus-revocable-trust package. Rates run higher in dense metros and lower in rural areas. Most attorneys bill at $250 to $400 per hour and need one or two meetings to draft a basic will.
You can also write a will entirely from scratch with a sheet of paper and a pen, with no software at all. Wyoming requires the same 2-witness signing process regardless of who drafts the document. The risk with a from-scratch will is technical: a missing self-proving affidavit, a witness who's also a beneficiary, or wording that creates ambiguity for the probate court. That's what this tool prevents.
Will.com is free at the document level. The $29/year subscription adds cloud-stored, zero-knowledge-encrypted access so you can edit and update your plan as life changes.
Wyoming will requirements at a glance
How it works
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Answer a few questions
About you, your family, and what you own.
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Download your will
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Sign with witnesses
Print and sign in front of 2 adult witnesses. Keep the signed copy somewhere safe.
When you might want an attorney instead
A will says who inherits your property, who serves as your executor, and who you name to care for your minor children.
Situations in which people commonly hire an attorney:
- Your estate is large enough to trigger federal estate tax (over $15 million in 2026) or Wyoming estate or inheritance tax.
- You own a business, complex investments, or assets in multiple states or countries.
- You're in a blended family, especially if you want to leave assets to a current spouse while protecting children from a prior relationship.
- You have a child or beneficiary with special needs and want a supplemental-needs trust that won't disqualify them from public benefits.
- You expect someone to contest the will, or you're disinheriting a close family member.
- You have substantial retirement accounts and want sophisticated beneficiary planning.
Self-proving affidavit in Wyoming
Wyoming recognizes self-proving affidavits. Will.com attaches one to your will: a short statement your witnesses sign in front of a notary, swearing to what they saw when you signed. See Wyo. Stat. §2-6-114.
A self-proven will skips the requirement to track down witnesses years later for the probate court. It's optional, but adding the affidavit at signing time saves your executor work. Will.com generates the affidavit alongside the will.
Who can witness your will in Wyoming
Wyo. Stat. §2-6-112(a). A subscribing witness who is also a beneficiary takes nothing under the will unless two other disinterested and competent witnesses also signed; the gift to the interested witness is purged in excess of any intestate share they would have received.
Family changes after you sign
A child born or adopted after the will. A child who arrives after you sign, and who isn't named or accounted for in the will, is covered by Wyoming law rather than by your wishes. The safest practice is to update your will when your family changes.
Wyoming has no pretermitted-heir or omitted-child statute. Title 2 chapter 6, the wills chapter, runs from Wyo. Stat. §2-6-101 to §2-6-125 and contains no section giving a child born or adopted after the will a share of the estate; §2-6-107, headed 'Failure of a testamentary provision', is a lapse rule that sends a failed devise to the residue, not an omitted-child rule. Nor does a later child revoke the will: §2-6-117 revokes a will only by a subsequent will or by burning, tearing, cancelling, obliterating or destroying it with intent to revoke, and §2-6-125, the only other revocation section, is triggered by divorce or annulment. A child born or adopted after the will therefore takes only what the will itself gives that child. What Wyoming does provide for a minor child is not a share of the estate but the family protections in chapter 7: possession of the homestead and a reasonable provision for support during administration (§2-7-501), an extra allowance for maintenance of the family where what is set apart is insufficient (§2-7-502), payment of those allowances in preference to all charges except funeral expenses and cost of administration (§2-7-503), and the exempt property including the homestead set over as absolute property, which goes to the surviving spouse and reaches the minor children only where there is no surviving spouse or where the survivor is not their parent (§2-7-504). None of those depends on when the child was born, and none of them is a substitute for naming the child in a new will.
A spouse you married after signing. Updating the will after marriage avoids relying on whatever Wyoming law provides by default.
Wyo. Stat. §2-6-125(f): Wyoming answers this in terms. A will is revoked only by a subsequent will or by the physical act §2-6-117 describes, §2-6-125 revokes the provisions in favor of a former spouse on divorce or annulment, and subsection (f) of that section provides that no change of circumstances other than the one it describes revokes a will. Marrying after signing therefore neither revokes the will nor gives the new spouse a share under it, and Title 2 chapter 6 carries no section entitling a spouse married after the will to any part of the estate. What protects that spouse is the elective share: under Wyo. Stat. §2-5-101 a surviving spouse may elect to take against the will and receive the statutory portion instead. Update the will after a marriage rather than relying on the election.
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