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

This Wyoming special power of attorney for the sale of property lets one principal name one agent to sell a single, described parcel of Wyoming real estate and nothing else. The instrument is drawn under the Wyoming Uniform Power of Attorney Act, W.S. 3-9-101 through 3-9-403, with the agent's authority tied to the one legal description written into it, so a closing agent or county clerk reading the recorded power sees at once which property it reaches and that it reaches no other.

One parcel, one sale, nothing else

A general power of attorney under the Wyoming act grants authority subject by subject, with real property as one of thirteen subjects a principal can initial on the statutory form. This limited power of attorney for real estate takes the opposite shape. Section 4 of the instrument carries the county, the legal description copied from the vesting deed, and the street address of one parcel, and Section 5 grants the agent authority with respect to real property, as W.S. 3-9-204 describes that subject, limited to the Property described in Section 4. The authority then covers the acts a sale takes: signing a contract of sale, executing and delivering the deed with or without covenants or warranties, signing the closing statement, affidavits, and the Statement of Consideration the county clerk requires with a deed, receiving the price, and paying liens, taxes, commissions, and closing costs from the proceeds. The same section states what the agent may not do: act on any other property, exercise any of the powers W.S. 3-9-201(a) reserves to an express grant such as making a gift or changing a beneficiary designation, or make a health care decision.

How a special power borrows the statute's words and then narrows them

Wyoming's act supplies the mechanism that makes a short special power of attorney work. Under W.S. 3-9-202, a power of attorney that cites the section describing a subject incorporates that entire section as if it were set out in full, and the principal may modify the authority so incorporated. This form cites W.S. 3-9-204, which lists everything an agent with general real property authority may do, from selling and conveying to releasing a mortgage, and then modifies that authority by confining it to one parcel and one transaction. W.S. 3-9-203 adds the incidental authority every incorporated subject carries, such as executing, acknowledging, and recording the instruments a transaction calls for, and the form invokes it within the same limit. The result is an instrument whose grant runs a few paragraphs yet rests on the full statutory definition of the agent's authority.

Durable, effective on signing, and over when the purpose is accomplished

Under W.S. 3-9-104(a), a Wyoming power of attorney created on or after January 1, 2018 is durable unless it expressly says otherwise, and under W.S. 3-9-109(a) it is effective when executed unless the principal names a future date or event. This form states both rules expressly: it is effective when executed, and the principal's later incapacity does not end it, which matters when a sale is scheduled months out or a principal is leaving the state for an extended period. Termination follows W.S. 3-9-110: the power ends at the principal's death, on revocation, or when its purpose is accomplished, which for a power confined to one sale means the closing of that sale. A third party who acts in good faith without actual knowledge of a termination remains protected under W.S. 3-9-110(d) and W.S. 3-9-119, and the form carries the reliance sentence from the statutory form so that a title company or buyer may rely on the power or a copy of it.

The deed the agent signs, and the homestead rule that reaches it

The power of attorney itself conveys nothing. The agent later signs a deed in the principal's name, acknowledges it in the representative-capacity short form of W.S. 32-3-115(a)(ii) as attorney-in-fact for the principal, and records it with the Statement of Consideration under W.S. 34-1-142. Where the parcel is the principal's homestead, W.S. 34-2-121 requires that deed to carry the homestead release words and to be signed and acknowledged by the owner and the owner's spouse. The power of attorney does not change that rule and does not sign for a spouse; the deed is the instrument where the spouse's own signature appears. W.S. 34-1-129 separately permits a husband or wife to name the other as attorney-in-fact, so a spouse may be the agent this form names.

Recorded beside the deed

The instrument is prepared for recording with the county clerk of the county where the property lies, so that the recorded deed the agent signs rests on a recorded power. Wyoming sets its recording fee statewide under W.S. 18-3-402(a)(xvi), twelve dollars for the first page and three for each additional page. The form reserves the top two inches of its first page for the clerk's recording label, keeps one inch margins elsewhere, and prints twelve point body text, which sits inside the margin and type standards Natrona, Sweetwater, and Campbell counties publish.

The configuration this form carries

The form recites exactly one principal, a natural person acting in that person's own right, one agent identified by name, mailing address, and telephone number, and one optional successor agent under W.S. 3-9-111(b) who may act only after the original agent has resigned, died, become incapacitated, or declined to serve. It carries one principal signature block and one acknowledgment certificate in the Wyoming short form of W.S. 32-3-115(a)(i); the agent does not sign it, because under W.S. 3-9-113 an agent accepts by acting. No marital status is recited and no spouse signs, since the power conveys nothing. A parent selling a Casper residence through an adult child while living out of state, a co-owner authorizing a sibling to sign the deed for that co-owner's own interest at a closing the co-owner cannot attend, and an owner of a rural tract naming a local agent to complete a sale already under contract present the one principal, one parcel pattern this special power of attorney recites. A power meant to cover every subject the act lists, a power held by two principals on one instrument, a power with coagents, a springing power that takes effect only on incapacity, and a power granted by a trustee or an entity each follow a different pattern and are not what this form is set up as.

The package includes the fillable special power of attorney form, a completed example filled in for a realistic Natrona County fact pattern, and a guide that walks through each numbered section, the signing and acknowledgment rules under W.S. 3-9-105 and the Wyoming notarial statutes, 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.