Weston County Power of Attorney (Special Power of Attorney for the Purchase of Property) Form

A Wyoming special power of attorney for the purchase of property lets a buyer who cannot be at the closing table sign nothing at all, while an agent of the buyer's choosing signs everything the purchase requires in the buyer's name. This form prepares that instrument under the Wyoming Uniform Power of Attorney Act, W.S. 3-9-101 through 3-9-403: one principal, one agent, one described parcel of Wyoming real estate, and an authority that begins and ends with that purchase. It is a limited power of attorney for real estate, prepared as a recordable instrument for a Wyoming closing.

Authority that reaches one purchase and stops

The form identifies the Property by county, legal description, street address, and seller, then grants the agent authority to negotiate and sign the purchase agreement, accept the deed, sign the closing documents including the statement of consideration under W.S. 34-1-142, pay the price and closing charges from the principal's funds, borrow purchase money and sign the note and the mortgage or deed of trust of the Property, and arrange title insurance, surveys, and inspections. The grant incorporates the real property authority of W.S. 3-9-204 and the general authority of W.S. 3-9-203 by reference under W.S. 3-9-202, and then narrows them under W.S. 3-9-202(c) to the Property and its purchase. A separate limitations section states what is withheld: no sale, lease, or encumbrance of the Property beyond that financing, no authority over anything else the principal owns, and none of the acts W.S. 3-9-201(a) reserves to an express grant, gifts and rights of survivorship among them.

Durable, immediate, and finished when the deal is

Under W.S. 3-9-104(a) a Wyoming power of attorney created since January 1, 2018 is durable unless it says otherwise, and under W.S. 3-9-109(a) it takes effect when signed. The form states both outcomes in fixed text, so a principal who becomes incapacitated between signing and closing has not left the agent without authority. It also states its own end: the power terminates when the purchase is completed and its purpose accomplished, when the principal revokes it, or when W.S. 3-9-110 otherwise ends it, which includes the principal's death. Executing it revokes no earlier power of attorney (W.S. 3-9-110(f)).

Not a conveyance, yet built for the record

Wyoming keeps a power of attorney outside its definition of a conveyance (W.S. 34-1-103) and then opens the record to it: under W.S. 34-1-104 a letter of attorney containing a power to convey lands as agent for their owner, once acknowledged by the owner, may be recorded by the county clerk of any county where the land lies, and the record may be read in evidence with the effect of a recorded conveyance. The consequence of recording sits in W.S. 34-1-105: a recorded power is not deemed revoked by the principal's act unless the revocation is recorded in the same office. The form is laid out for that recording, with a 2-inch first-page reserve for the clerk's recording information, 1-inch margins elsewhere, and 12-point type, within the standards the larger Wyoming county clerks publish. Statewide recording fees under W.S. 18-3-402(a)(xvi) are $12 for the first page and $3 for each additional page, and Wyoming imposes no deed transfer tax or documentary stamp on any instrument.

One principal signs; the agent signs nothing

W.S. 3-9-105 asks for the principal's signature, or a signature made at the principal's direction in the principal's conscious presence, and makes the signature presumed genuine when acknowledged before a notary public. The form carries one signature block, for the principal, over one acknowledgment certificate in the Wyoming short form of W.S. 32-3-115(a)(i). That acknowledgment does double work: it supplies the presumption of genuineness on which W.S. 3-9-119 lets a seller, lender, or title company rely, and it is the condition on which W.S. 34-1-104 allows the clerk to record. The venue lines stay blank for the place of the act, since a buyer signing from another state acknowledges before that state's officer and Wyoming recognizes the act under W.S. 32-3-106; the completed example shows a Colorado acknowledgment for exactly that reason. The agent does not sign; under W.S. 3-9-113 an agent accepts by acting. No spouse signs either: the homestead joinder rule of W.S. 34-2-121 reaches a sale or mortgage of a homestead, and a power of attorney sells and mortgages nothing by itself.

The configuration this form recites

The form recites exactly one principal, a natural person signing in that person's own right, one agent, and one optional successor agent who acts only if the agent cannot or will not (W.S. 3-9-111(b)). It fixes the subject to one parcel and the purpose to its purchase in the principal's name, and it prints no marital status, no price limit, no date limit, and no special instructions. It is not set up as a general financial power, as a power to sell or manage property, as a power for two principals or coagents, as a power granted by an entity or trustee, or as a power to take title with another person in a survivorship form, which W.S. 3-9-201(a)(iii) places outside any grant that does not expressly include it. An out-of-state buyer closing on a Wyoming home, a parent purchasing ahead of a household move, and a buyer deployed or traveling on the closing date present the one-principal, one-purchase pattern this form recites.

The package includes the fillable power of attorney, a completed example filled in for a realistic Laramie County purchase, and a guide that walks through each section, the agent's authority and its limits, signing before a notarial officer in or outside Wyoming, and recording with the county clerk. This description and the guide describe the form and the governing Wyoming statutes in general terms; they are not legal advice.