Wyoming Quitclaim Deed (Trustee Grantee)

Write a trustee's name on a Wyoming deed and the statute reads the words that come after it. Wyoming Statutes 34-2-122 asks any conveyance naming a grantee as trustee, agent, or other representative, or naming a trust itself, to define the trust or agreement the grantee acts under, and it states plainly what happens when that definition is missing. This Wyoming quitclaim deed is configured for that grantee side: one individual grantor conveys and quitclaims to a grantee taking title in a representative capacity, and numbered blanks carry the trustee names, the trust name, and the trust date on the face of the instrument.

The sentence that keeps a capacity in the record

The statute supplies two sufficient routes. A deed may name the trustee or trustees with the trust name and the trust date, or it may point by book and page or document number to a writing already of public record in that county carrying the same facts. Leave both out and the section supplies the result: the description of a grantee in a representative capacity becomes a description of the grantee alone, it stops being notice of any trust or agency, and that person is held vested with power to convey, encumber, or release the land. Wyoming Statutes 34-2-123 applies the same treatment to instruments already filed and opens a curative route, an affidavit supplying the missing facts, recorded separately and not part of this package. Running the other direction, a deed that names a trust as the grantee is deemed to vest title in the trustee or trustees of that trust.

What the quitclaim verbs measure

Wyoming Statutes 34-2-104 supplies the operative words, conveys and quitclaims, and 34-2-105 fixes the measure: the legal and equitable rights the grantor holds at delivery, with title acquired later left outside unless wording extending it is added. No covenant of title travels along and Wyoming Statutes 34-1-135 implies none, so a lender's mortgage, a recorded easement, and a severed mineral estate all survive the transfer to the trustee.

One grantor, a trustee grantee, a conditional homestead line

Section 1 recites the individual grantor. Section 2 names the trustee or trustees and takes the grantee mailing address that Wyoming Statutes 34-1-119(a) makes a condition of recording. Section 3 carries the trust name, the trust date, and the alternative recorded reference. The operative section performs the conveyance in the statutory words, prints the homestead release and waiver wording Wyoming Statutes 34-2-121 requires in substance, and states the trustee capacity and the vesting rule. Section 10 holds two labeled signature blocks: the grantor, and a spouse of the grantor joining in the homestead release, who conveys no ownership interest by signing. Each block is paired with its own certificate in the short form of Wyoming Statutes 32-3-115, so the signers may appear before different notarial officers on different days, four days apart in the completed example. An owner moving property held in that owner's own name into a trust already signed, and a conveyance to a successor trustee replacing one who resigned or died, present the pattern this deed recites, searched as a deed into trust or a quit claim deed to a trustee. It is not set up as a deed with two record owners on the grantor side, an entity or attorney in fact grantor, or a designation that operates at death.

Filing it in Wyoming

The deed goes to the county clerk where the land is situated, priced by the statewide schedule of Wyoming Statutes 18-3-402(a)(xvi), twelve dollars for a first page and three for each one after, with no Wyoming transfer tax or stamp. The sworn Statement of Consideration on the State Board of Equalization form still travels with it, since Wyoming Statutes 34-1-142(b) bars acceptance without one, and subsection (c) lists the categories where the price and terms may be left off; a conveyance to a trustee appears in none of them by name. Recording is also where the trust identification does its work, because the recorded face of the instrument is what gives the record notice of the capacity in which the grantee holds.

The package delivers the blank fillable deed drawn to the format standards Wyoming's largest counties publish, a completed example filled in for an Albany County conveyance into a family trust, and a guide covering the sections, the trust identification, the homestead rule, notarization, and recording. The materials are informational and are not legal advice.