This tool provides general cost estimates for informational purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Costs vary significantly based on individual circumstances. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for specific guidance.
2026 cost estimates for divorce in Wyoming, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a divorce in Wyoming costs on average $8,250, typically $4,600-$13,800 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $185 to $365 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 3-6 months to resolve. Common related costs include court filing fee ($100-$400) and service of process ($50-$100).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $1,250 | $2,500 | $4,200 | 1-3 months |
| Moderate | $4,600 | $8,250 | $13,800 | 3-6 months |
| Complex | $14,950 | $21,950 | $34,900 | 6-18 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$185 – $365/ hour
Median: $275/hr
3-6 months
For moderate complexity cases
New to how attorney fees work? Read the legal fees guide — hourly, flat, and contingency billing explained.
Researching costs in another area? These free tools from our network may help.
Add this calculator to your own site with a copy-paste snippet — includes an attribution link back to this page.
<iframe
id="legalcostcalc-embed"
src="https://legalcostcalc.co/embed/wyoming/divorce-cost"
title="Wyoming Divorce Cost Calculator"
width="100%"
height="720"
style="border:1px solid #e2e8f0;border-radius:8px;max-width:768px;"
loading="lazy"
></iframe>
<p style="font-size:12px;text-align:center;">
<a href="https://legalcostcalc.co/wyoming/divorce-cost?utm_source=embed&utm_medium=widget&utm_campaign=embed_snippet" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow ugc">
Powered by LegalCostCalc
</a>
</p>
<script>
window.addEventListener("message", function (event) {
if (!event.data || event.data.type !== "legalcostcalc:embed-resize") return;
var frame = document.getElementById("legalcostcalc-embed");
if (frame && typeof event.data.height === "number") {
frame.style.height = event.data.height + "px";
}
});
</script>Divorce costs form around two variables that compound each other: how much the spouses disagree on, and how many separate issues (property division, child custody, child support, alimony) are in dispute. An uncontested divorce with no minor children and no real estate can resolve with a single court filing fee and a document-preparation charge. Once custody or asset division is contested, cost accumulates from discovery (formal document exchange), mediation sessions billed hourly, and — in the most complex cases — expert witnesses such as forensic accountants (business or investment valuation) and custody evaluators.
Attorney billing in divorce is typically hourly rather than flat-fee, because the number of court appearances and negotiation rounds is not knowable in advance. A retainer is paid upfront and drawn down as the attorney bills time; complex cases often require replenishing the retainer more than once. Court filing fees and mediation fees are set by the state or county and apply regardless of which attorney is hired.
Take a moderate-complexity divorce matter in Wyoming. The recorded median total is $8,250, with reported quotes clustering between $4,600 and $13,800. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $700–$2,600, which leaves roughly $5,650–$7,550 of the Wyoming median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes. One further recorded fee is not itemised above and is not in that total.
At $8,250, the median divorce cost in Wyoming runs 6% below the $8,798 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Wyoming carries 3 rows — simple, $1,250–$4,200 at $135–$275/hr over 1-3 months; moderate, $4,600–$13,800 at $185–$365/hr over 3-6 months; complex, $14,950–$34,900 at $250–$455/hr over 6-18 months — on 4 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$8,250 is a median, not the middle of the band — $3,650 above the $4,600 floor, $5,550 under the $13,800 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 51.
Wyoming occupies the 29th row of 51 for a divorce. Its $8,250 median trails the $8,550 table midpoint by $300, which is 4% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
Wisconsin ($8,300) and Missouri ($8,100) bracket Wyoming inside a $200 window — narrow enough that 29th is close to arbitrary.
Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Missouri record medians within three percent of Wyoming's $8,250. A divorce quote anywhere in that group is describing effectively the same market.
Rate and total sit 2 places apart — 31st of 51 at $275 an hour against 29th on the divorce total — which is close enough to read as the same signal.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Wyoming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23 | Nevada | $8,950 | +$700 |
| 24 | Texas | $8,900 | +$650 |
| 25 | Oregon | $8,850 | +$600 |
| 26 | Arizona | $8,550 | +$300 |
| 27 | Pennsylvania | $8,400 | +$150 |
| 28 | Wisconsin | $8,300 | +$50 |
| 29 | Wyoming | $8,250 | — |
| 30 | Missouri | $8,100 | −$150 |
| 31 | Florida | $8,000 | −$250 |
| 32 | Ohio | $8,000 | −$250 |
| 33 | Iowa | $7,950 | −$300 |
| 34 | Mississippi | $7,950 | −$300 |
| 35 | Nebraska | $7,750 | −$500 |
The rows within ten percent are lopsided: 11 below Wyoming against 7 above. $50 up or $150 down moves Wyoming a row, so a downward revision would cost the state far more places than an equivalent upward one would gain — the 29th position is propped up by a thin divorce field above it and a crowded one beneath.
Climbing five places would mean passing Texas, Oregon, Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and adding $650 to the $8,250 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Missouri, Florida, Ohio, Iowa, Mississippi: $300.
$4,650 short of Hawaii ($12,900), $2,200 clear of Alabama ($6,050).
The $8,250 median divided by the $275 median rate implies roughly 30 billable hours. That rounds to the same 30 hours as the peer median, so on workload Wyoming is indistinguishable from the middle of the table at this precision.
Moving from a simple to a complex divorce multiplies the Wyoming total by 8.8, and almost all of that is hours rather than price: 12 hours at $205 becomes 65 hours at $340, so the workload grows 5.4x while the rate grows only 1.66x. Complexity here buys attorney time, not a premium hourly rate.
From $4,600 to $13,800 the moderate band is $9,200 wide, close to the $9,550 peer median. End to end that is 33 hours at $275.
Per month of elapsed time the two tiers are close: about $1,833 a month across the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate matter, and $1,829 a month across the 6-18 months recorded for a complex one.
A third ordering: by implied hours Wyoming is 24th of 51 at 30 hours, 5 places above its cost rank of 29th on cost — more work behind the same divorce money.
43% up the $4,600–$13,800 band sits the $8,550 table midpoint, buying 31 hours at $275 against the 30 the local divorce median implies — 1 hour apart.
| Measure | Wyoming | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $8,250 | 29th |
| Hourly median | $275 | 31st |
| Implied hours | 30 | 24th |
| Simple median | $2,500 | 43rd |
| Complex median | $21,950 | 24th |
$275 an hour puts Wyoming between Ohio ($280) and Idaho ($265) — not the divorce cost pairing.
No other tracked state records $275 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Wyoming on its own within this dataset.
$8,250 buys 40 hours at $205, 30 at $275, 24 at $340.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Georgia | $285 |
| 30 | Ohio | $280 |
| 31 | Wyoming | $275 |
| 32 | Idaho | $265 |
| 33 | Indiana | $265 |
Rank is not stable across the tiers, and the direction matters. Wyoming runs 43rd at the simple tier, 29th at moderate, 24th at complex of 51 — it climbs 19 places as the matter gets harder. Straightforward divorce work is recorded at ordinary prices here; contested work is not.
$2,500 is 43rd of 51 on a straightforward divorce, under South Carolina ($2,500) and over Mississippi ($2,450), $400 under the $2,900 tier midpoint.
$21,950 is 24th of 51 once contested, between Illinois ($22,050) and Arizona ($21,800), $150 off the $21,800 tier midpoint.
Neither pair of adjacent bands touches: $400 of clear space between the simple and moderate tiers, and $1,150 between the moderate and complex tiers. Every recorded divorce figure in Wyoming maps to exactly one tier, which makes the tier label unusually informative here.
| Tier | Wyoming | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $2,500 | 43rd | $2,900 | 12 |
| moderate | $8,250 | 29th | $8,550 | 30 |
| complex | $21,950 | 24th | $21,800 | 65 |
$2,500 drops Wyoming to 43rd of 51 on straightforward matters, 14 below its moderate position and $400 (14%) under the $2,900 tier midpoint.
12 implied hours at $205: 40% of the moderate tier's 30, over 1-3 months.
South Carolina ($2,500) and Mississippi ($2,450) bracket it — a $50 window.
7 states record a simple-tier median within three percent of $2,500, denser than the 3 around the moderate row.
$21,950 puts Wyoming 24th of 51 on contested matters, 5 up on its moderate position, and $150 (1%) over the $21,800 tier midpoint.
65 implied hours at $340: 217% of the moderate tier's 30, over 6-18 months.
Illinois ($22,050) and Arizona ($21,800) bracket it — a $250 window.
6 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $21,950, denser than the 3 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 41 | North Carolina | $2,500 |
| 42 | South Carolina | $2,500 |
| 43 | Wyoming | $2,500 |
| 44 | Mississippi | $2,450 |
| 45 | West Virginia | $2,450 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 22 | Pennsylvania | $22,600 |
| 23 | Illinois | $22,050 |
| 24 | Wyoming | $21,950 |
| 25 | Arizona | $21,800 |
| 26 | Minnesota | $21,800 |
$8,250 ranks a divorce 2nd of 8 in Wyoming, under Criminal Defense, over DUI / DWI. At 87% of Criminal Defense ($9,450).
The state does not rank uniformly. Wyoming is 19th of 51 for Personal Injury but 37th for Bankruptcy, a 18-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 29th on divorce says little about what the other lines cost.
Wyoming is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, DUI / DWI sits on its own midpoint while Bankruptcy runs 17% below its own midpoint — a 17-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Wyoming is 5x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
0 of 8 matter types rank Wyoming in the upper third, 1 in the lower, 7 between; divorce is 29th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 44th percentile of the 51 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,450 | $9,450 | $29,100 | 34 | 29th | −7% | Nevada |
| Divorce | $2,500 | $8,250 | $21,950 | 30 | 29th | −4% | Wisconsin |
| DUI / DWI | $3,150 | $7,450 | $14,800 | 30 | 27th | level | Wisconsin |
| Personal Injury | $1,500 | $4,850 | $14,150 | — | 19th | −7% | Utah |
| Immigration | $1,900 | $4,400 | $10,750 | 18 | 32nd | −7% | Ohio |
| Bankruptcy | $1,350 | $3,000 | $4,600 | 13 | 37th | −17% | South Carolina |
| Real Estate Closing | $850 | $2,150 | $3,800 | 9 | 26th | −3% | Indiana |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $600 | $1,900 | $5,700 | 8 | 30th | −8% | Oregon |
Simple tier. $2,500 ÷ $205 = about 12 hours, spread over 1-3 months at roughly $1,250 a month. The $5,750 step to the moderate tier is 18 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $8,250 to $21,950 is a $13,700 step, mostly work: 35 more hours at $275 is $9,625, while moving to $340 across 65 hours adds $4,225. Work carries 69%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Budgeting from Missouri ($8,100) lands $150 under Wyoming; from Wisconsin ($8,300), $50 over; from the $8,550 table midpoint, $300 out.
Both ends, in time. $4,600 is 17 hours at $275; $13,800 is 50. Over the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate divorce, that is 4 to 11 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Wyoming's own recorded figures, $21,950 buys 8.8 matters at the $2,500 simple median — or, counted in time, 65 implied hours against 12, a factor of 5.4 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Wyomingcourt's own schedule; billing models are covered in the legal fees guide.
This tool provides general cost estimates for informational purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Costs vary significantly based on individual circumstances. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for specific guidance.