Wyoming § 2-11-301 Naming of executors and trustees; generally;
appointment of agents for service; bond when executor sole
legatee; applicability of provisions

Wyoming Statutes

§ 2-11-301 — Naming of executors and trustees; generally; appointment of agents for service; bond when executor sole legatee; applicability of provisions

Wyoming § 2-11-301

Title 02Wills, Decedents' Estates and Probate Code

Ch. 11FOREIGN WILLS

Art. 3FOREIGN PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVES

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Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 2-11-301 (2026).

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The testator may name in his will as executor or trustee any
person or persons who are residents and citizens of the United
States, or any bank or trust company organized under the laws of
this state or of the United States and doing business in this
state. When it appears to the court having jurisdiction that any
individual named as an executor or trustee in any will is not a
resident of this state or that any bank or trust company named
as executor or trustee is not authorized to do business in this
state, the court shall require the executor or trustee to
designate a resident, bank or trust company of this state as
agent or attorney upon whom any order, notice or process issued
out of the courts of this state may be served. Service on the
agent or attorney has the same effect as if serv

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The testator may name in his will as executor or trustee any
person or persons who are residents and citizens of the United
States, or any bank or trust company organized under the laws of
this state or of the United States and doing business in this
state. When it appears to the court having jurisdiction that any
individual named as an executor or trustee in any will is not a
resident of this state or that any bank or trust company named
as executor or trustee is not authorized to do business in this
state, the court shall require the executor or trustee to
designate a resident, bank or trust company of this state as
agent or attorney upon whom any order, notice or process issued
out of the courts of this state may be served. Service on the
agent or attorney has the same effect as if served upon the
nonresident executor or trustee in person. If any nonresident
executor or trustee fails to appoint an agent or attorney, the
court shall revoke his authority to act. When the person named
as executor is also the sole legatee, instead of the bond
required by other provisions herein of an executor, he may give
a bond to the state in a sum and with sureties the court
requires, conditioned only to pay within the time fixed by the
court all the debts of the testator which are filed or exhibited
within the time fixed by the notice to creditors. He shall
return an inventory and appraisement as in other cases. Upon
execution and approval of the bond, the filing of the inventory
and appraisement and the publication of notice to creditors, the
estate of the testator vests absolutely in the sole legatee and
the debts of the testator so filed or exhibited become charges
against the legatee. Upon breach of the condition of the bond,
suit may be instituted on the bond by any creditor in the name
of the state for the use of the creditor. The provisions hereof
apply to all wills hereafter admitted to probate.