Updated August 14, 2026. Quick answer: Wyoming’s petition filing fee could not be established from primary text, and there is no single accounting interval — split: guardian’s condition report semiannual; conservator’s estate accounting annual. Everything on this page is quoted from Wyoming’s own statutory text where it exists, and where Wyoming publishes no figure this page says so rather than printing an estimate. What drives the rest of the bill — lawyers, an investigation, a capacity evaluation — is on what guardianship costs.
What Wyoming fixes by statute
| Item | What the text says | Where it says it |
|---|---|---|
| Petition filing fee | Not published here. Petition filing fee is not stated on this page because it could not be verified against statutory text; no value was established. This page will not print an estimate in its place. The route tried was https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title02.pdf. | — |
| Bond | A guardian is not required to give bond by default; the court may require one only for good cause, if it finds the ward’s best interest requires it, and the court then fixes the bond’s terms and conditions itself (no statutory formula given for the guardian’s bond amount). Notably, W.S. § 3-1-106’s no-bond-by-default carve-out is worded to cover only ‘a guardian or limited guardian’ — it does not extend the same language to a conservator. The same section cross-references the general fiduciary bond mechanics at W.S. §§ 2-3-101 through 2-3-504 (written primarily for personal representatives of decedents’ estates) for ‘appointment, qualification, substitution, removal, oath and bond of a guardian, limited guardian and conservator.’ Read together, a conservator’s bond appears to default toward being required (unless waived under the general § 2-3-111 mechanism — by will, by statute, or by distributee/interested-party waiver), with the penalty amount set, absent a different court order, at not less than the value of the ward’s personal property plus the probable annual value of rents/profits/issues of real property (§ 2-3-102). § 3-6-112, inside Chapter 6 ‘veterans’ guardianship’ (a narrow special act that applies ‘only to beneficiaries of the bureau’ per § 3-6-118), lets such a guardian be ‘allowed from the estate of his ward reasonable premiums paid by him to any corporate surety upon his bond.’ There is no equivalent general-purpose premium-allocation provision anywhere in the general Chapter 1 (fiduciaries generally), Chapter 2 (guardianships), or Chapter 3 (conservatorships) text. | Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-1-106; cf. § 2-3-102, § 2-3-111 (general fiduciary bond mechanics); § 3-6-112 (Veterans’ Guardianship only — NOT general) |
| Guardian ad litem and attorney fees | Title 3 establishes that the ward’s estate bears the court costs of the proceeding, including ‘the reasonable fees of the guardian and the attorney for the guardian’ (guardianship, W.S. § 3-3-1002) and ‘the reasonable fees of the conservator and the attorney for the conservator’ (conservatorship, W.S. § 3-3-1003). Guardian fees specifically must be ‘reasonable and appropriate’ and ‘set and approved by the court’ (§ 3-2-111(a)), and the court may not approve them ‘unless all reports required of the guardian are current’ (§ 3-2-111(b)). However, Title 3 does not contain a dedicated compensation/payment-source provision for a guardian ad litem as distinct from ‘the attorney for the guardian.’ A GAL may be appointed under W.S. § 3-1-108 (general) or, for the proposed ward specifically, under Wyoming Rule of Civil Procedure 17(c) as referenced at § 3-1-205(a)(iv) — GAL compensation and its payment source appear to be left to court rule/practice rather than a Title 3 statutory directive or rate cap. No statutory dollar cap on guardian, conservator, or attorney fees was found; the standard is ‘reasonable,’ court-set. | Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-2-111 (guardian’s fees); § 3-3-1002 and § 3-3-1003 (court costs charged to ward’s estate); § 3-1-108 (GAL appointment — no fee/payor clause) |
| Periodic accounting or report | Two different report tracks with two different frequencies exist and must not be conflated. (1) The guardian’s report on the ward’s physical condition, residence, treatment, care and activities is due within six months of appointment and every six months thereafter — i.e. Semiannual, not annual (W.S. § 3-2-109(a)(i)-(ii)); the court must maintain a calendar for these and a late filing triggers a show-cause order (§ 3-2-109(b)-(c)). (2) The conservator’s written, verified report and accounting of the ward’s estate is due annually, within 60 days of the appointment anniversary, unless the court orders otherwise on good cause (W.S. § 3-3-901(a)(i)); it must itemize receipts, disbursements, investment changes, the bond amount/surety, and the ward’s condition (§ 3-3-902). § 3-3-1001 ties settlement/approval of ‘an annual report’ to prior payment of the proceeding’s court costs (covered by the petition filing fee row above) rather than imposing a separate per-report fee. | Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-2-109 (guardian’s report — semiannual); § 3-3-901 and § 3-3-902 (conservator’s report and accounting — annual) |
What the proceeding is called here. Wyoming Title 3 is captioned ‘Guardian and Ward.’ ‘Guardian’ (Chapter 2) is the office over the person of a minor or incompetent/mentally incompetent adult ward; ‘conservator’ (Chapter 3) is the separate office over the ward’s property/estate. Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-1-105 allows one petition to seek both, and the same person may be appointed to both offices for the same ward, but they remain legally distinct appointments with distinct bond, report, and fee rules.
The filing fee
Not published here. The petition filing fee is not stated on this page because it could not be verified against statutory text; no value was established. This page will not print an estimate in its place. The route tried was https://wyoleg.gov/statutes/compress/title02.pdf.
The bond
A guardian is not required to give bond by default; the court may require one only for good cause, if it finds the ward’s best interest requires it, and the court then fixes the bond’s terms and conditions itself (no statutory formula given for the guardian’s bond amount). Notably, W.S. § 3-1-106’s no-bond-by-default carve-out is worded to cover only ‘a guardian or limited guardian’ — it does not extend the same language to a conservator. The same section cross-references the general fiduciary bond mechanics at W.S. §§ 2-3-101 through 2-3-504 (written primarily for personal representatives of decedents’ estates) for ‘appointment, qualification, substitution, removal, oath and bond of a guardian, limited guardian and conservator.’ Read together, a conservator’s bond appears to default toward being required (unless waived under the general § 2-3-111 mechanism — by will, by statute, or by distributee/interested-party waiver), with the penalty amount set, absent a different court order, at not less than the value of the ward’s personal property plus the probable annual value of rents/profits/issues of real property (§ 2-3-102). § 3-6-112, inside Chapter 6 ‘veterans’ guardianship’ (a narrow special act that applies ‘only to beneficiaries of the bureau’ per § 3-6-118), lets such a guardian be ‘allowed from the estate of his ward reasonable premiums paid by him to any corporate surety upon his bond.’ There is no equivalent general-purpose premium-allocation provision anywhere in the general Chapter 1 (fiduciaries generally), Chapter 2 (guardianships), or Chapter 3 (conservatorships) text.
A guardian or limited guardian shall not be required to give bond unless the court, for good cause, finds that the best interest of the ward requires a bond. The court shall then fix the terms and conditions of the guardian’s bond.
The guardian may be allowed from the estate of his ward reasonable premiums paid by him to any corporate surety upon his bond.
Read at statute source on 2026-08-12: Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-1-106; cf. § 2-3-102, § 2-3-111 (general fiduciary bond mechanics); § 3-6-112 (Veterans’ Guardianship only — NOT general).
Who pays the premium is not answered. A surety bond carries a recurring premium and it is usually the largest ongoing cost of a guardianship of the estate. Wyoming states no express rule on who bears it in the chapter read for this page, and no figure for what one costs is published anywhere this project could verify. That is a gap in the law and in the published record, not a gap we have filled with a guess.
Guardian ad litem and attorney fees
Title 3 establishes that the ward’s estate bears the court costs of the proceeding, including ‘the reasonable fees of the guardian and the attorney for the guardian’ (guardianship, W.S. § 3-3-1002) and ‘the reasonable fees of the conservator and the attorney for the conservator’ (conservatorship, W.S. § 3-3-1003). Guardian fees specifically must be ‘reasonable and appropriate’ and ‘set and approved by the court’ (§ 3-2-111(a)), and the court may not approve them ‘unless all reports required of the guardian are current’ (§ 3-2-111(b)). However, Title 3 does not contain a dedicated compensation/payment-source provision for a guardian ad litem as distinct from ‘the attorney for the guardian.’ A GAL may be appointed under W.S. § 3-1-108 (general) or, for the proposed ward specifically, under Wyoming Rule of Civil Procedure 17(c) as referenced at § 3-1-205(a)(iv) — GAL compensation and its payment source appear to be left to court rule/practice rather than a Title 3 statutory directive or rate cap. No statutory dollar cap on guardian, conservator, or attorney fees was found; the standard is ‘reasonable,’ court-set.
(a) The fees of the guardian shall be: (i) Reasonable and appropriate; (ii) Set and approved by the court. (b) The fees of the guardian shall not be approved by the court unless all reports required of the guardian are current.
The ward or his estate shall be charged with the court costs of a guardianship of a ward, including the reasonable fees of the guardian and the attorney for the guardian.
Read at statute source on 2026-08-12: Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-2-111 (guardian’s fees); § 3-3-1002 and § 3-3-1003 (court costs charged to ward’s estate); § 3-1-108 (GAL appointment — no fee/payor clause).
How often you have to account
There is no single interval here. Wyoming runs two tracks at different cadences — Split: guardian’s condition report semiannual; conservator’s estate accounting annual — so which one binds you depends on what you were appointed to be. A table with one interval per state cannot represent this, and most published ones try. Your appointing court can order more often than the statutory minimum; the document that governs you is your order.
Two different report tracks with two different frequencies exist and must not be conflated. (1) The guardian’s report on the ward’s physical condition, residence, treatment, care and activities is due within six months of appointment and every six months thereafter — i.e. Semiannual, not annual (W.S. § 3-2-109(a)(i)-(ii)); the court must maintain a calendar for these and a late filing triggers a show-cause order (§ 3-2-109(b)-(c)). (2) The conservator’s written, verified report and accounting of the ward’s estate is due annually, within 60 days of the appointment anniversary, unless the court orders otherwise on good cause (W.S. § 3-3-901(a)(i)); it must itemize receipts, disbursements, investment changes, the bond amount/surety, and the ward’s condition (§ 3-3-902). § 3-3-1001 ties settlement/approval of ‘an annual report’ to prior payment of the proceeding’s court costs (covered by the petition filing fee row above) rather than imposing a separate per-report fee.
(a) The guardian shall present to the court and file in the guardianship proceedings a signed, written, report on the physical condition, including level of disability or functional incapacity, principal residence, treatment, care and activities of the ward, as well as providing a description of those actions the guardian has taken on behalf of the ward: (i) Within six (6) months of the guardian’s appointment; (ii) Every six (6) months following the initial report; (iii) Within thirty (30) days of his removal or resignation from, or the termination of, the guardianship; (iv) At other times as the court may order.
(a) A conservator shall present to the court and file in the conservatorship proceedings a written verified report and accounting of his administration: (i) Annually, within sixty (60) days following the anniversary date of his appointment, unless the court otherwise orders on good cause shown; (ii) Upon filing his resignation and before his resignation is accepted by the court; (iii) Within thirty (30) days following the date of his removal; (iv) Within sixty (60) days following the date of termination of the conservatorship, unless that time is extended by the court; (v) At other times as the court may order.
Read at statute source on 2026-08-12: Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-2-109 (guardian’s report — semiannual); § 3-3-901 and § 3-3-902 (conservator’s report and accounting — annual).
What an accounting has to contain, and the duties that come with it, are on the guardian accounting duties page.
What this page does not tell you
Of the four things this page set out to establish from primary text, 1 could not be: petition filing fee. Each is marked above with the route that was tried. What is missing everywhere, in every state, is a price: what an attorney charges to bring an uncontested petition, what a court-ordered capacity evaluation or investigation costs, and what a surety charges for the bond. None of it is published by any authority, and this page does not estimate it.
Where this fits
The filing fee is the smallest part of what a guardianship costs, and the national page sets out the costs that are larger and are not published anywhere. If nobody has been appointed yet, the comparison that actually matters is against the document that avoids this proceeding entirely — guardianship against a power of attorney.
Sources
| Item | Citation | Tier | Read |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bond | Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-1-106; cf. § 2-3-102, § 2-3-111 (general fiduciary bond mechanics); § 3-6-112 (Veterans’ Guardianship only — NOT general) | statute | 2026-08-12 |
| Guardian ad litem and attorney fees | Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-2-111 (guardian’s fees); § 3-3-1002 and § 3-3-1003 (court costs charged to ward’s estate); § 3-1-108 (GAL appointment — no fee/payor clause) | statute | 2026-08-12 |
| Periodic accounting or report | Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-2-109 (guardian’s report — semiannual); § 3-3-901 and § 3-3-902 (conservator’s report and accounting — annual) | statute | 2026-08-12 |
General consumer information, not legal, tax or financial advice. Guardianship and conservatorship are governed by STATE law and differ materially between states; every figure here is quoted from the cited source as read on the date shown and changes without notice. Read as of August 14, 2026.
Also on Wyoming: Wyoming Small Estate Affidavit.