How long is squatters' rights in Wyoming?
Ten years, under Wyoming Statutes section 1-3-103. And since July 2025 an owner can apply to law enforcement to remove a person who has no right to be in a residence, without first going to court.
If someone is living in your home now, the clock matters far less than getting them out lawfully, and that is where we can help.
- Statutory period
- 10 years
- What's different here
- a flat 10 years, and a 2025 police removal process for unlawful occupants
- Statute
- Wyo. Stat. § 1-3-103; SF 6 (2025)
Someone living in your home in Wyoming? Dardaris helps you get them out.
Changing the locks or cutting the power turns the law against you. We hand it to people who remove squatters lawfully, for a living.
If they are moving in right now, call the police first. Once they have settled in, it takes a formal process, and that is where we come in.
Your contact at Dardaris
Dardaris is not a law firm and removes nobody itself. If you hire the specialist we introduce, they pay us a referral fee, and you deal with them under their own terms. We pass your details on only once you agree.
- Tell us what is happening, by email or on a call. Talking to us costs nothing.
- We put you in touch with a removal specialist who works through the court and the sheriff, never around them.
- Once the home is free, Dardaris manages the letting for you.
Wyoming sets a flat ten-year limit: an action to recover title or possession of land can only be brought within ten years after the cause of action accrues (section 1-3-103(a)). Hostile, actual, open, notorious, exclusive and continuous possession for that long ends the owner's claim. Section 1-3-103 has no shorter route for paid taxes or a defective deed.
A bill in the 2025 session, House Bill 123, would have stopped the clock for as long as the owner paid the property taxes on the land. It passed the House 40 to 21 and died in a Senate committee in March 2025, so the ten years run as before.
What did pass is Senate File 6, Enrolled Act 20 (2025, chapter 41), in effect from July 1, 2025. It lets an owner or the owner's agent apply to law enforcement to remove a person who is not authorized to be in the owner's residential property. The owner has to assert, among other things, that the person is not there under a lease or other agreement and is not closely related to the owner, and law enforcement must confirm ownership and the other conditions before removing the person immediately. The act gives a cause of action for wrongful removal and immunity to officers who act under it, creates offenses for false documents and advertising used to lease or sell real property that is not the person's, and makes defacing or destroying property while unlawfully occupying a home a felony whatever the property is worth.
Where Wyoming sits against the rest of the United States, in years
Of 50 places in the United States on these pages, 17 have a shorter clock and 18 a longer one or none at all.
From the day someone moves in to the day a claim is possible
The same three stages in most places. The exact rule, and whether the last stage exists at all, is on each place's own page.
- Day oneMoving inCaught in the act, it is usually a matter for the police: a trespass, not a tenancy.
- Weeks to yearsSettled inOnce someone lives there, removing them usually takes a court order, the same route as for a tenant.
- After 10 yearsA claim becomes possibleOnly if every test held, without a break, for the whole period. Where the law allows no such claim, this stage never comes.
Not yours to do, once they have moved inChanging the locks, cutting the water or power, or removing belongings yourself. It is illegal in every US state and most places on these pages forbid it too. Each page says how removal works there.
The record a court asks for, kept as you go
Wherever your property stands, removing an occupant usually comes down to showing who had the right to be there, and since when. Dardaris files every lease, message and document for a building by date, so that record already exists on the day you need it.
- Every lease, with who signed it and when
- Every message with a tenant, on the thread it was sent in
- Every document, filed against the building it concerns
Frequently asked questions
What are the squatting laws in Wyoming?
Wyoming's squatter law comes down to Wyo. Stat. § 1-3-103: 10 years before a squatter can claim ownership. What sets Wyoming apart: since July 1, 2025, Senate File 6 lets an owner apply to law enforcement to remove an unauthorized occupant from a residence. Squatting itself is trespassing, and an owner never changes the locks or cuts the utilities on a person who has settled in; the lawful routes are the police process under the 2025 act or the courts.
How long is squatters' rights in Wyoming?
Ten years, under Wyo. Stat. § 1-3-103(a): an action to recover title or possession of land can only be brought within ten years after the cause of action accrues.
What applies to an ordinary squatter with no deed in Wyoming?
The same ten years. Section 1-3-103 does not shorten the period for paid taxes or a deed, so a squatter with no paperwork is on the same clock as anyone else.
Does Wyoming require property tax payment for adverse possession?
Not in the statute. House Bill 123 (2025), which would have stopped the clock for an owner who paid the property taxes, passed the House and died in a Senate committee in March 2025, so section 1-3-103 stays a flat ten years.
What is Wyoming's 2025 squatter law?
Senate File 6, Enrolled Act 20 (chapter 41), in effect since July 1, 2025. An owner or agent applies to law enforcement and makes assertions, including that the person is not there under a lease or agreement and is not closely related to the owner. Officers confirm ownership and the other conditions and then remove the person immediately. A wrongly removed person has a cause of action, and officers acting under the act are immune.
Can a Wyoming owner remove a squatter without a court order?
For a residence, yes, through the police process in Senate File 6 when its conditions are met: the person has no lease or agreement and is not closely related to the owner. Outside that process, changing the locks or cutting the utilities on someone who has settled in is illegal, and removal goes through the courts. Call the police at once if you find someone moving in.
Can someone help me get squatters out of my home in Wyoming?
Yes. Removal specialists do it through the court and the sheriff. Changing the locks or cutting the power would put you in the wrong. Dardaris can put you in touch with one, and once the home is free, manage the letting for you.
Elsewhere in the United States
The same question, on a different clock. Every place sets its own period and its own shortcuts.
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Arkansas
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Florida
- Georgia
- Hawaii
- Idaho
- Illinois
- Indiana
- Iowa
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Louisiana
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Mississippi
- Missouri
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- North Carolina
- North Dakota
- Ohio
- Oklahoma
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- South Dakota
- Tennessee
- Texas
- Utah
- Vermont
- Virginia
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
- See every place
This is general information, not legal advice.Laws change, and a county or a city can add its own wrinkle on top of the state rule, the way New York City does. Confirm the current rule for your address before acting on it, and talk to a local attorney before relying on any of it in a real dispute.