Wyoming Asset Search Services

County Clerk and State Records

1. County clerks, all 23 counties: Deeds and mortgages are recorded with the county clerk where the land lies (W.S. 34-1-118), and the same office records judgments in its real estate records (1-17-302) and takes notices of pendency (1-6-108). Each clerk’s index is searched under the subject, the spouse and every known entity.
2. Vehicle liens at the county: A security interest in a motor vehicle is perfected by filing with the county clerk, not the Secretary of State (W.S. 34.1-9-501(a)), so vehicle collateral shows up in county records.
3. Secretary of State: LLCs, corporations and partnerships with their registered agents, officers and managers, plus most UCC financing statements. Articles of organization need only the company name and registered agent (17-29-201(b)), so tying an LLC to a person usually takes deeds, UCC filings and agent records together.
4. District court dockets: Civil judgments, transcripts of judgments from other counties (1-17-304), divorce cases and probate files under the Wyoming Probate Code (2-1-101) are checked for existing creditor exposure.
5. Federal court: One federal district covering the state and the Montana and Idaho parts of Yellowstone, with court held at Casper, Cheyenne, Evanston, Lander, Jackson and Sheridan (28 U.S.C. 131). PACER shows federal suits, bankruptcies and judgments.
6. Vehicle titles: Requested under a DPPA permissible purpose.
7. Vessels, aircraft and other states: Coast Guard documentation and the FAA aircraft registry, then property, entity and court records nationwide.

Equitable Disposition in Divorce

This is not a community property state. The court makes a just and equitable disposition of the property of the parties, weighing their respective merits, the condition each will be left in, the party through whom the property was acquired, and burdens on it (W.S. 20-2-114(a)). Federal service-connected disability benefits of a veteran are off the table (20-2-114(b)).

Because the party through whom property came is a factor, the report gives the grantor and recording date of every deed and the formation and officer record of every entity, under both spouses’ names. A notice of pendency in an action between spouses is filed with the county clerk (1-6-108), so those filings are read too. Division is for counsel and the court.

The Two-Year Transfer Window

The state still uses the Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act, W.S. 34-14-201 to 34-14-212. A transfer is fraudulent if made with actual intent to hinder, delay or defraud, or without reasonably equivalent value when the debtor was left with unreasonably small assets or expected debts it could not pay (34-14-205(a)), or while insolvent as to existing creditors (34-14-206). The time limits are short.

• Time limits (W.S. 34-14-210(a)): An actual-intent claim must be brought within 2 years of the transfer or, if later, 6 months after it was or could reasonably have been discovered. A constructive-fraud claim has 2 years; an insider-preference claim under 34-14-206(b), 6 months.
• Trust transfers (34-14-210(b)): For a transfer to a qualified spendthrift trust, the claim ends 120 days after notice of the transfer is mailed to a known creditor or published, unless the creditor had asserted a specific claim before the transfer, in which case the 2-year and 6-month limits apply.
• Intent factors (34-14-205(b)): Eleven listed factors, including a transfer to an insider, retained possession or control, and a transfer after the debtor was sued or threatened with suit. Each is a factor, not a presumption.
• Insiders (34-14-202): For an individual debtor, insiders include relatives, a term that covers a spouse, and organizations the debtor controls or helps run.
• Transferees (34-14-209): Judgment may run against the first transferee or a later one, but not a good-faith transferee who took for value.
• In bankruptcy: A trustee can avoid transfers made within 2 years before the petition under 11 U.S.C. 548, the same span as the state limit.

Search Method

The subject, any spouse and every entity they control are run through each county clerk’s real estate, judgment and vehicle lien records, Secretary of State entity and UCC filings, district and federal court dockets, and vehicle, vessel and aircraft registries, then through property and court records in other states.

An analyst reviews each hit and writes it up with its record reference, such as the county clerk’s book and page or document number, the entity filing or the case number, so every item can be pulled and certified. Recording dates are listed so counsel can measure them against the dormancy and transfer limits.