Signing checklist for Wyoming

The signing steps in Wyoming law, step by step. Pick your documents to see them.

Checked against official sources: October 31, 2026.

Short answer

This checklist lists the signing rules in Wyoming law. It does not check whether your document is valid.

Financial power of attorney: Signed by you; the law requires no notary or witnesses
Health care directive: Notarized or signed by two adult witnesses

Choose your form State of Wyoming Statutory Form Power of Attorney, with Agent's Certification. You do not have to use it. Covers property only, not health care. Includes a notary block. The court page says the statutory form 'meets the requirements for granting a power of attorney in Wyoming'. Official text
Law: Wyo. Stat. §§ 3-9-301, 3-9-302
Sign it Signed by you, or in your conscious presence by another person you direct to sign your name.
Law: Wyo. Stat. §§ 3-9-105, 3-9-119, 3-9-120
Notary or witnesses The Act requires only your signature. If you acknowledge your signature before a notary, it is presumed genuine, and banks and others must follow the acceptance rules for an 'acknowledged' power of attorney. The statutory form includes a notary block.
Law: Wyo. Stat. §§ 3-9-105, 3-9-119, 3-9-120
The agent signs too No agent signature is required. A person accepts appointment by acting as agent or by other conduct showing acceptance, unless the document says otherwise.
Law: Wyo. Stat. §§ 3-9-105, 3-9-119, 3-9-120

Sign it In writing and signed by you, or by another person in your presence and at your express direction.
Law: Wyo. Stat. § 35-22-403(a)-(c)
Notary or witnesses Sign your power of attorney for health care and either have it notarized or have two qualified witnesses sign the required declaration. Individual instructions may be oral or written.
Law: Wyo. Stat. § 35-22-403(a)-(c)
Who cannot witness Either acknowledge it before a notarial officer, or have at least two witnesses sign; each witness must have seen you sign or acknowledge it and must declare under penalty of perjury that you are known to them and signed or acknowledged it in their presence. None of these may witness: your treating health care provider or the provider's employee; the attorney-in-fact you name; the operator or an employee of a community care facility or a residential care facility (or of its operator).
Law: Wyo. Stat. § 35-22-403(a)-(c)
If you live in a nursing facility Operators and employees of community care and residential care facilities may not be witnesses, and, unless related to you by blood, marriage or adoption, an owner, operator or employee of a residential or community care facility where you receive care may not be your agent.
Law: Wyo. Stat. § 35-22-403(a)-(c)

Give copies to the right people Keep the signed documents in a safe place and give copies to your health care proxy and your doctors. Some states have registries that store an advance directive for doctors and your proxy.

This checklist lists the signing rules in Wyoming law. It does not check whether your document is valid.