Wyoming Quitclaim Deed (Corrective)

Once a Wyoming county clerk endorses a deed with the hour of its reception, nothing takes that page back out of the books. The Wyoming Quitclaim Deed (Corrective) works the other way around. It records alongside the earlier instrument, names that instrument by date, recording date, book and page or document number, and county, sets what the record says beside what it is corrected to say, and quitclaims the same property to the same grantee.

A record that only ever grows

Wyoming Statutes 18-3-402 has the county clerk endorse every instrument with the day, hour, and minute it arrived and index it by grantor and grantee. Nothing there removes an entry. A correction takes its own reception time and its own place in the sequence Wyoming Statutes 34-1-120 and 34-1-121 build, where an unrecorded conveyance is void against a later good faith purchaser who records first. No Wyoming statute gives a correcting instrument the earlier deed's priority date, and this deed claims none.

Where Wyoming law names this instrument

No Wyoming statute creates a correction deed or prescribes its contents. The category is written into Wyoming law in one place, the Statement of Consideration statute, whose omission categories include an instrument which confirms, corrects, modifies or supplements a previously recorded instrument without added consideration, at Wyoming Statutes 34-1-142(c)(i). The sworn statement still reaches the counter, since Wyoming Statutes 34-1-142(b) keeps a transfer instrument off the record without it, but price and terms may be left off.

What the two quitclaim verbs measure

The operative words are the statutory pair at Wyoming Statutes 34-2-104, conveys and quitclaims, and Wyoming Statutes 34-2-105 fixes their reach at the rights the grantor holds at delivery, with later acquired title outside the deed unless wording extends it. Wyoming Statutes 34-1-135 implies no covenant, so a mortgage, an easement, or a severed mineral estate survives the correction, and an interest recorded in the interval between the two deeds is not cut off by it. Correcting the record is one thing; rewriting a bargain is another, and that second job belongs to a reformation action tried on clear and convincing evidence (Sanders v. Sanders, 2010 WY 77; Crompton v. Bruce, 669 P.2d 930).

One grantor, a side-by-side correction, a conditional spouse line

Section 4 takes the four identifiers of the corrected deed and the county holding it. Section 5 is the heart of the form, two blanks setting the statement as it appears in the recorded deed next to the corrected statement, so an examiner finds the same words in both. Section 3 carries the form of ownership, a blank that earns its keep when the vesting words are what went wrong: co-ownership by itself raises no survivorship in Wyoming, and spouse wording sets up a tenancy by the entirety under Wyoming Statutes 34-1-140(b) unless the deed says otherwise. The operative clause then conveys, prints the homestead release and waiver Wyoming Statutes 34-2-121 asks for in substance, and states that the earlier deed and its record stay of record. Two signature blocks follow, the grantor's and a conditional one for a spouse joining in that release, each with its own certificate in the short form of Wyoming Statutes 32-3-115. A grantee surname carried onto the record with one letter wrong, and a description recorded without the plat reference that completes it, present the pattern this deed recites, searched as a correction deed, a corrective quit claim deed, or a scrivener's error deed. The form recites one individual grantor conveying in that grantor's own right; it is not set up for two record owners, an entity or trustee grantor, an agent under a power of attorney, or a designation operating at death.

At the Wyoming counter

Filing happens with the clerk of the county where the land sits, priced by the statewide schedule of Wyoming Statutes 18-3-402(a)(xvi), and Wyoming imposes no deed transfer tax. That schedule also charges by the count: a dollar for each surname past five, a dollar for each described tract past ten, and two dollars for each real estate description past two that is given by book and page or document number. The grantee's mailing address is a condition of recording under Wyoming Statutes 34-1-119(a).

The download delivers the blank fillable deed drawn to the format standards Wyoming's largest counties publish, a completed example filled in for a Converse County correction, and a guide covering the sections, the correction statutes, homestead, notarization, and recording. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.