Wyoming Correction Deed (Individual Grantor)

One person signed the Wyoming deed that went on record with a mistake in it, and one person signs the deed that fixes it. This Wyoming Correction Deed (Individual Grantor) is drawn for exactly that pattern: a single grantor, signing in the grantor's own name, re-executing the conveyance with the error removed. The form carries one signature block and one acknowledgment certificate, identifies the recorded deed being corrected by its book and page or document number, and states the correction in the grantor's own words.

The record keeps the mistake and the fix side by side

A Wyoming county clerk does not take a recorded page back out of the books. A deed recorded with a misspelled grantee surname, a transposed lot number, or a missing plat reference stays in the record exactly as it was received. The correction deed, sometimes searched for as a corrective deed or a scrivener's error deed, works with that fact rather than against it. It names the prior deed by title, date, recording date, and recording reference; quotes the item as the prior deed states it; states the item as corrected; and then conveys and quitclaims the grantor's interest in the property as corrected while confirming the prior deed in every other respect. The two instruments stand together in the record, the later one explaining the earlier one, and under Wyoming Statutes 34-1-121(a) the correction deed is notice from the time it is delivered to the clerk, with its own recording date.

Where Wyoming law names this instrument

No Wyoming statute creates a correction deed or prescribes its contents. The instrument rests on the general conveyancing statutes, and Wyoming law names it in one place: the Statement of Consideration statute. Wyoming Statutes 34-1-142(c)(i) lets the party presenting an instrument which confirms, corrects, modifies or supplements a previously recorded instrument without added consideration omit the amount paid, the terms of sale, and the nonreal-property estimate from the sworn statement that accompanies every deed at the counter. The deed is drafted to that category. Its operative section states that it is given for the consideration stated in the prior deed and for no added consideration, so the statement of consideration that goes with it is completed with the names, addresses, date, and legal description and without a price.

Conveys and quitclaims, and nothing more

The operative words are the pair the Wyoming quitclaim form at Wyoming Statutes 34-2-104 prints, conveys and quitclaims, and Wyoming Statutes 34-2-105 fixes their reach: all the then existing legal or equitable rights of the grantor in the described premises, and no title acquired later unless words are added. Wyoming Statutes 34-1-135 implies no covenant in a conveyance, and this deed states none of its own. What it does state is that it neither enlarges nor diminishes any covenant the prior deed contains, so a warranty deed corrected by this instrument keeps the warranty it already carries, and a quitclaim deed corrected by it stays a quitclaim. The deed also prints the homestead release and waiver that Wyoming Statutes 34-2-121 asks for in substance, in the statute's own words.

One grantor, one signature, one certificate

The form recites exactly one grantor: an individual who executed the prior deed in the grantor's own name and in no representative capacity. That sentence is fixed deed text, printed above the grantor's name and address, and the form carries nothing about marital status, a second grantor, or a representative capacity for the filler to resolve. Section 7 holds one signature block, with the printed-name line Sweetwater and Fremont Counties publish as a requirement under every signature, followed by one acknowledgment certificate carrying the Wyoming short form at Wyoming Statutes 32-3-115(a)(i), This record was acknowledged before me on. A grantee surname recorded with one letter wrong on a deed one owner signed alone, and a plat reference dropped from a description in a deed signed by a single seller, present the pattern this deed recites. A prior deed signed by two grantors, by a trustee or personal representative, or by an attorney-in-fact follows a different pattern, with a signature block and certificate for each signer or the capacity and authority stated, and the form is not set up as any of those. The grantee is the same grantee the prior deed names; where the error was in that name, the grantee section carries the corrected name and the correction section shows both spellings.

At the Wyoming counter

The deed is recorded with the county clerk of the county where the land lies, the office that holds the prior deed. The statewide fee under Wyoming Statutes 18-3-402(a)(xvi) is twelve dollars for the first page and three dollars for each page after it, and the deed is built to the format standards Wyoming's largest counties publish: letter size, a two-inch top margin on page one for the clerk's recording label, one-inch margins elsewhere, and twelve-point type. The grantee's mailing address, which Wyoming Statutes 34-1-119(a) requires before the clerk records, sits in the grantee section. The acknowledgment can be taken in Wyoming or in another state, since Wyoming Statutes 32-3-106(a) gives an out-of-state notarial act the same effect, and the venue lines stay blank for the officer to complete with the county where the act is actually performed.

What the download includes

The download delivers the fillable correction deed with its non-recorded instructions cover page, a completed example filled in for a Natrona County correction of a misspelled grantee surname, and a guide that walks through each section, the conveyancing and recording statutes, the homestead signature rule, and the statement of consideration. This description and the guide describe the form and the governing Wyoming statutes in general terms; they are not legal advice.