Wyoming Foreclosure Laws

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Wyoming Foreclosure Laws

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Wyoming Foreclosure is Judicial.
Wyoming foreclosure process is brought about with a complaint requestion foreclosure of the mortgage and a deficiency judgment on the note. The mortgagor has 20 days to respond to the letter of complaint. Judgment is entered and notice of sale is given along with the time, place, and location of sale. A notice of sale will be published in a local newspaper, after which time the sale will commence.

Sale on Foreclosure of Mortgage.
When a mortgage is foreclosed a sale of the premises shall be ordered. The decree directing the sale is sufficient warrant for the sheriff or other officer to proceed to advertise and conduct the sale. An order of sale issued by the clerk of court or an appraisement of the real property to be sold is not necessary. When the premises to be sold are in one (1) or more tracts, the court may direct the officer who makes the sale to subdivide and sell the same in parcels, or to sell any one (1) of the tracts as a whole.

Sale to be at public vendue
Wyoming foreclosure law states that no lands or tenements shall be sold by virtue of any execution or decree of foreclosure unless the sale is by public vendue between the hours of 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. of the same day, nor unless the time and place of holding the sale was previously advertised for four (4) consecutive weeks in the county newspaper in the county where the lands and tenements are situate. The notice shall state the names of the plaintiff and defendant in the action, and the time and place of sale. In all notices the lands or tenements to be sold shall be described with reasonable certainty by appropriate description. If any officer sells any lands or tenements by virtue of any execution or decree, otherwise than as provided, the officer so offending shall forfeit and pay fifty dollars ($50.00) for every offense, to be recovered with costs in any court of record in this state by the person whose lands were advertised and sold.

Certificate of Purchase after Wyoming Foreclosure Auction
When real property is sold by virtue of an execution, order of Wyoming foreclosure sale, decree of foreclosure or foreclosure by advertisement and sale, the sheriff or other officer, instead of executing a deed to the premises sold, shall give to the purchaser of the lands a certificate in writing describing the property purchased and the sum paid therefore, or if purchased by the plaintiff in execution or by the mortgagee, the amount of his bid. The certificate shall state that the purchaser is entitled to a deed for the property at the expiration of the period of redemption, unless the property is redeemed prior to that date as provided by law. The sheriff or other officer shall record in the office of the recorder of the county a duplicate of the certificate, signed and acknowledged by him, and the certificate or a certified copy thereof is admissible as evidence of the facts therein contained.

Wyoming Foreclosure Right of redemption
(a) Except as provided with respect to agricultural real estate, it is lawful for any person, his heirs, executors, administrators, assigns or guarantors whose real property has been sold by virtue of an execution, decree of foreclosure, or foreclosure by advertisement and sale within three (3) months from the date of sale, to redeem the real estate by paying to the purchaser, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, or to the sheriff or other officer who sold the property, for the benefit of the purchaser, the amount of the purchase price or the amount given or bid if purchased by the execution creditor or by the mortgagee under a mortgage, together with interest at the rate of ten percent (10%) per annum from the date of sale plus the amount of any assessments or taxes and the amount due on any prior lien which the purchaser paid after the purchase, with interest. On payment of this amount the sale and certificate granted are void.

(b) In the case of any mortgage upon one (1) or more parcels of real estate any or all of which were agricultural real estate on the date of execution of the mortgage as stated in the mortgage, the period within which the owner, his heirs, executors, administrators, assigns or guarantors may redeem the premises sold is twelve (12) months from the date of the Wyoming foreclosure sale.

(c) The term "agricultural real estate" means any parcel of land in excess of twenty (20) acres lying outside the exterior boundaries of any incorporated city, town or recorded subdivision. If the mortgage recites that the real estate involved is agricultural real estate, it is presumed the parties to the mortgage, their heirs, executors, administrators, assigns, guarantors or successors in interest have agreed to and are bound by all the provisions of law relative to the right of redemption.

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