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A Wyoming general financial power of attorney grants an agent money powers. Wyoming adults use it so a trusted person can handle banking, property, business and tax matters. This guide walks through each part of the form and how to sign it.
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A Wyoming general financial power of attorney is a signed document that names an agent to act on the principal's money and property matters. The principal is the person who grants the powers. The agent, also called the attorney-in-fact, is the person who acts.
The document is "general" because it can reach many kinds of transactions at once, from bank accounts to real estate and business affairs. A limited form covers a narrower task; see the other Wyoming power of attorney forms for those.
| Document Name | Wyoming General Power of Attorney Form |
| Other Name | Wyoming Financial Power of Attorney |
| Relevant Laws | Wyoming Statutes, Sections 3-9-101 to 3-9-403 |
| Avg. Time to Fill Out | 10 minutes |
| # of Fillable Fields | 41 |
| Available Formats | Adobe PDF |
The Wyoming general financial power of attorney lists powers labeled (A) through (M), and the principal initials the line in front of each power the agent receives. A blank line keeps that power with the principal.
Line (N) grants every listed power with a single set of initials. The Special Instructions below the list come already typed on the form.
A Wyoming power of attorney is effective when executed unless the principal provides in it that it becomes effective at a future date or upon a future event or contingency, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-109.
The form's EFFECTIVE DATE part puts that choice in the principal's hands. The principal initials the line for "effective immediately", or initials the other line and writes in a later date. Only one of the two lines carries initials.
A Wyoming power of attorney created on or after the effective date of the Wyoming act is durable unless it expressly provides that the principal's incapacity terminates it, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-104. Durable means it keeps working after the principal loses capacity.
The form's TERMINATION DATE part decides which applies. Its lines offer these endings:
Initialing the incapacity line makes the power of attorney not durable. A principal who wants the agent to keep acting through an illness leaves that line blank or uses the Wyoming durable power of attorney form.
Incapacity of the principal of a power of attorney that is not durable does not revoke or terminate the power of attorney as to an agent or other person that, without actual knowledge of the incapacity, acts in good faith under it, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-110.
The Wyoming general financial power of attorney form runs across five pages, and each step below matches one part of it. The screenshots show where each answer goes.
The screenshots under each step show the FormsPal Wyoming General Financial Power of Attorney template filled with sample entries in blue, so you can see where each answer goes. The names, addresses, dates and amounts are examples only.
Tip: Check that the names you enter match your photo ID and your agent's photo ID.
A Wyoming power of attorney shall be signed by the principal or in the principal's conscious presence by another person whom the principal directs to sign the principal's name, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-105. The section names no witnesses for this signature.
The same section ties the notary to proof: a signature on a power of attorney is presumed to be genuine if the principal acknowledges the signature before a notary public or other person authorized by law to take acknowledgments, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-105. The form's acknowledgment page is there for that step.
A photocopy or electronically transmitted copy of an original power of attorney has the same effect as the original, except as otherwise provided by law other than the act, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-106.
The Wyoming form names a successor attorney-in-fact on its fourth page, an alternate who takes over when the first agent cannot serve. A power of attorney terminates when the agent dies, becomes incapacitated or resigns and the power of attorney does not provide for another agent to act, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-110, so the successor line keeps the document working.
Except as otherwise provided in the power of attorney, a person accepts appointment as an agent by exercising authority or performing duties as an agent or by any other assertion or conduct indicating acceptance, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-113.
An agent's authority terminates on these events, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-110:
If, after a principal executes a power of attorney, a court appoints a conservator of the principal's estate or other fiduciary charged with managing the principal's property, the agent is accountable to the fiduciary as well as to the principal, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-108.
A Wyoming power of attorney terminates on any of these events, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-110:
Unless the power of attorney otherwise provides, an agent's authority is exercisable until it terminates, notwithstanding a lapse of time since execution, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-110.
The form's first termination line ends the power of attorney on a signed written revocation. A new power of attorney does not revoke an earlier one unless the new one provides that the previous power of attorney is revoked or that all other powers of attorney are revoked, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-110.
Termination of an agent's authority or of a power of attorney is not effective as to the agent or another person that, without actual knowledge of the termination, acts in good faith under the power of attorney, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-110. A principal who revokes the document tells the agent and each bank or office holding a copy.
The Wyoming power of attorney form uses a handful of terms of art that are easy to mix up. Each one means the following on this form.
The Wyoming general financial power of attorney covers money and property, not medical decisions made for the principal. A power of attorney for health care is a separate document with its own rules in Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-22-403(b).
| Point | Financial power of attorney (this form) | Health care power of attorney |
|---|---|---|
| What it covers | Money and property powers chosen from lines (A) to (M) | Any health care decision the principal could have made while having capacity, Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-22-403(b) |
| Who signs | The principal, or another person in the principal's conscious presence at the principal's direction, Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-105 | The principal, or another person in the principal's presence and at the principal's expressed direction, Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-22-403(b) |
| Notary or witnesses | A notary acknowledgment makes the signature presumed genuine, Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-105 | Acknowledged before a notarial officer, or signed by at least two witnesses, each of whom witnessed either the signing or the principal's acknowledgment, Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-22-403(b) |
| After incapacity | Durable unless it expressly provides that incapacity terminates it, Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-104 | Remains in effect notwithstanding the principal's later incapacity, Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 35-22-403(b) |
Other Wyoming forms cover narrower jobs: the Wyoming limited power of attorney form, the Wyoming motor vehicle power of attorney form and the Wyoming minor child power of attorney form. All of them sit among the POA forms by type.
The principal fills out the form, picks an agent and the powers, then signs it; the signature is presumed genuine if the principal acknowledges it before a notary public, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-105. The signing steps above cover the notary acknowledgment and the copies.
Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-105 requires only the principal's signature, or the signature of another person whom the principal directs to sign in the principal's conscious presence; that section does not make a notary a condition of signing. Under the same section, acknowledging the signature before a notary public or other person authorized by law to take acknowledgments makes the signature presumed to be genuine. A bank, a county clerk or another office that will rely on the document may set its own practice, so ask that office before using a copy without the acknowledgment page completed.
No, a Wyoming power of attorney terminates when the principal dies, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-110. The agent's authority under the form ends with it.
No, not by itself: a later power of attorney revokes an earlier one only if it provides that the previous power of attorney or all other powers of attorney are revoked, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-110.
No, unless the power of attorney otherwise provides, the agent's authority is exercisable until it terminates, notwithstanding a lapse of time since execution, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-110. The form's termination date line lets the principal set an end date.
The meaning and effect of a power of attorney is determined by the law of the jurisdiction indicated in it and, in the absence of an indication of jurisdiction, by the law of the jurisdiction in which it was executed, under Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 3-9-107.
The form asks for the full names and addresses of the principal, the agent and any successor agent. The principal also decides beforehand which powers to grant, when the document starts and when it ends.
General information, not legal or tax advice.
