Wyoming Gift Deed (Married Grantor with Non-Owner Spouse Joinder)

The second signature on this Wyoming gift deed belongs to a person who owns nothing of record. This form prepares a deed of gift by one married grantor who holds Wyoming real property in the grantor's own name, conveying it for love and affection to one or two grantees, with the grantor's spouse, a person absent from the chain of title, joining in the deed and in the homestead release Wyoming law places inside a conveyance of a homestead.

A signature from someone who owns nothing of record

Wyoming Statutes 34-2-121 names the signers of a homestead conveyance by relationship, not by their place in the title: the owner, and the spouse of the owner. The statute asks for the release wording in substance and for the free and voluntary signature and acknowledgment of both people, treats a homestead conveyance made without them as void, and writes one exception, a conveyance directly from husband to wife.

What the deed fixes in its own text

This configuration is printed, not selected. Section 1 states that the grantor is a married person who holds the conveyed interest in the grantor's own name and conveys in the grantor's individual capacity, and that the grantor's spouse holds no interest of record in the property. Section 9 is the spouse's own section: a sentence by which the spouse joins in the execution of the deed as the spouse of the owner and in the release and waiver of homestead rights, repeated there in the statute's words, over a blank for the spouse's name. Section 10 carries a signature line headed GRANTOR and a second headed SPOUSE OF GRANTOR, and two acknowledgment certificates follow on the short form of Wyoming Statutes 32-3-115. The spouse's certificate is this form's layout, not a Wyoming requirement.

A gift that passes the whole estate and no promise

Wyoming prints statutory deed forms that warrant, specially warrant, or quitclaim, and none for a gift, so a gift deed is an ordinary conveyance under Wyoming Statutes 34-1-106 that names love and affection as its consideration. Section 3 says exactly that, with no blanks, and Section 8 gives, grants, and conveys all of the grantor's estate, right, title, and interest. Because Wyoming Statutes 34-1-135 implies no covenant in a conveyance of real estate other than minerals, the granting sentence states that the conveyance is made without covenants of warranty of title.

Patterns that present this configuration

The form recites one grantor who is married and one spouse who holds no record interest. A residence acquired by one spouse before the marriage, land inherited by one spouse during it, and a lot titled in one spouse's name alone, each given to a relative or friend, present the pattern this deed recites. The grantee entry takes one or two natural persons; two grantees take the form the words after their names designate, including a tenancy by the entirety where the deed calls them husband and wife or spouses under Wyoming Statutes 34-1-140(b). An unmarried grantor, two owners of record conveying together, a trustee, personal representative, attorney-in-fact, or entity grantor, a conveyance to a trust, and a deed to three or more grantees each follow a pattern this form is not set up as.

At the county clerk's counter

The deed is acknowledged before a notarial officer and recorded with the county clerk where the land lies. It arrives with the sworn Statement of Consideration that Wyoming Statutes 34-1-142 attaches to every transfer; for a gift of more than half the property's value, subsection (c)(iv) lets the grantee omit the price and terms. No transfer tax applies, and the clerk does not record until the grantee's mailing address is furnished, which Section 2 supplies.

Three items make up the package: the fillable deed; a completed example, a Campbell County gift of a Gillette residence by a married grantor to her niece, the grantor's husband joining in the homestead release; and a guide that walks the statutory framework, every section of the deed, the forms in which two grantees can hold, the homestead and signing rules, and the recording steps. Guide and form describe Wyoming law in general terms, and neither is legal advice.