Updated September 7, 2026. Quick answer: In Wyoming, once the personal representative publishes notice to creditors, a creditor has 3 months to file a claim; and a creditor who is personally mailed notice gets 30 days.
What is the creditor-claim deadline in Wyoming?
| Once notice to creditors is published | 3 months |
| If notice is never published (absolute deadline) | No independent death-based bar; see note below |
| Creditor personally mailed notice | 30 days |
“…within three (3) months from the date of the first publication of the notice, or thereafter be forever barred. A claimant to whom the personal representative has mailed a notice shall file his claim within three (3) months after the date of first publication of the notice in the newspaper, or before the expiration of thirty (30) days after the mailing, whichever date is later, and any claim not so filed is barred forever.”
Source: Wyo. Stat. §§ 2-7-201, 2-7-703
What makes Wyoming different
Wyoming’s bar is purely publication-triggered with no separate death-counted outer deadline; for a creditor actually mailed notice, the deadline is whichever is LATER of the 3-month publication period or 30 days after mailing; a protective floor, not the usual shorter-window pattern.
A note on sourcing: The official wyoleg.gov PDF returned corrupted content and mirrors 403’d this session; figures were corroborated via a FindLaw mirror and independent search-result summaries citing the same section numbers.
Does this deadline apply the same way if the estate never opens probate?
These deadlines are creatures of the probate process itself; they run once an estate is opened (by publication, mailing, appointment, or the grant of letters, depending on Wyoming’s own rule above). A creditor of a decedent whose estate never enters probate at all is not cut off by this particular statute, though the underlying debt’s own ordinary statute of limitations still applies.
Sources
| Statute | Wyo. Stat. §§ 2-7-201, 2-7-703 |
| Wyoming courts (general reference) | Wyoming judicial branch |
| Confidence | Medium |
Every statute quoted on this page was read directly from the state’s own legislature/code site this session, or, where that site blocked automated access, from a reputable legal-citation mirror quoting the same official text with its official citation (disclosed below). General information, not legal advice; the exact deadline in a given estate can turn on facts (whether a personal representative was appointed, whether notice was ever published or mailed) that only your own probate court file can confirm.