Big Horn County Gift Deed (Individual) Form

One person giving Wyoming real property away signs this deed alone, and the only other signature it can carry belongs to a spouse releasing the homestead. This form prepares a Wyoming gift deed for a single grantor, a natural person conveying in the grantor's own right, married or unmarried, to one or two grantees, with the statement of gift, the absence of any covenant, and the homestead release of Wyoming Statutes 34-2-121 written into it.

One grantor, signing in the grantor's own right

Section 1 fixes the configuration as deed text: the grantor is one natural person conveying in the grantor's individual capacity, and not as a trustee, personal representative, agent, attorney-in-fact, or officer of an entity. One grantor block, one signature block, and one acknowledgment certificate follow. The grantor's marital status is not fixed; the grantor block takes the name with the recital Wyoming practice places after it, a married person or an unmarried person. The deed conveys whatever estate the grantor holds, a co-owner's undivided half as readily as a sole owner's whole.

A gift stated on the face of the deed

Wyoming prints no statutory gift deed form, so a gift deed is an ordinary conveyance under Wyoming Statutes 34-1-106 that names a gift as its consideration. Section 3 does that in one sentence: the conveyance is a gift, made for love and affection and for no monetary consideration, intended as a present and irrevocable gift. Section 7 then gives, grants, and conveys all of the grantor's estate in the property, the full estate Wyoming Statutes 34-2-101 passes unless a lesser one is expressed.

The spouse's signature the homestead rule demands

The release Wyoming Statutes 34-2-121 places in an instrument conveying a homestead, hereby releasing and waiving all rights under and by virtue of the homestead exemption laws of this state, is printed in the granting sentence of Section 7, and the same section has the owner and the owner's spouse sign and acknowledge the instrument, treating a conveyance that lacks those elements as void. On a one-grantor deed the person the statute brings onto the instrument is a spouse whose name is nowhere in the title, and Section 9 is that spouse's section: the joinder sentence, a signature block headed SPOUSE OF GRANTOR, and a separate acknowledgment certificate, so the spouse may acknowledge on a different date or before a different officer. A married homeowner giving the family residence to an adult child fills that section; an unmarried grantor, or a gift of land that is no one's home, leaves it blank. The form is not set up as a conveyance by two co-owners, by a corporation, trustee, or attorney-in-fact, or to a trust.

Title as the grantor holds it, with no covenant attached

Wyoming Statutes 34-1-135 provides that no covenant is implied in a conveyance of real estate other than minerals, and a deed that omits the statutory words conveys and warrants carries none. The granting section states that result: the conveyance is made without covenants of warranty of title, and no covenant is implied in it. The grantee takes the title as it stands, listed encumbrances and unlisted ones alike. A gift to two grantees takes its form from the words after their names, including the 2023 rule of Wyoming Statutes 34-1-140(b) under which a designation of the grantees as husband and wife establishes a tenancy by the entirety unless the deed says otherwise.

At the county clerk's counter

The deed is acknowledged before a notarial officer, without witnesses, and recorded with the county clerk where the land lies. Wyoming collects no transfer tax on a deed; the statewide recording fee is twelve dollars for the first page and three dollars for each page after it. A sworn Statement of Consideration accompanies the deed under Wyoming Statutes 34-1-142; for a gift of more than half the property's value, or a parent-to-child transfer for nominal consideration, the price and terms may be left off it.

This purchase delivers the Wyoming gift deed for an individual grantor as a fillable PDF, a completed example filled in for a Natrona County gift of a Casper home by a married grantor to her son and daughter-in-law, her husband joining in the homestead release, and a guide covering the statutory framework, each section of the form, the ways grantees may hold title, the signing and homestead rules, and the recording steps. The form and guide describe Wyoming law in general terms and are not legal advice.