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 estate planning / probate in Wyoming, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a estate planning / probate in Wyoming costs on average $1,900, typically $950-$2,900 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $160 to $320 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 2-6 weeks to resolve. Common related costs include notarization fees ($10-$25) and trust registration fee ($50-$200).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $300 | $600 | $1,000 | 1-2 weeks |
| Moderate | $950 | $1,900 | $2,900 | 2-6 weeks |
| Complex | $2,850 | $5,700 | $9,500 | 1-3 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$160 – $320/ hour
Median: $250/hr
2-6 weeks
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/estate-planning-cost"
title="Wyoming Estate Planning / Probate 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/estate-planning-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>Estate planning and probate cost formation depends on which side of death the work happens on. Planning documents drafted while someone is alive — a will, a revocable living trust, powers of attorney — are usually flat-fee, priced by document complexity and whether a trust (which avoids probate but requires more drafting) is involved rather than a simple will alone. Probate, which happens after death when an estate moves through court, is billed differently: often hourly or as a percentage of the estate's value, and its cost tracks estate size and how many beneficiaries or disputes are involved.
The biggest cost driver in probate specifically is whether the estate is contested. An estate with a clear will, cooperative beneficiaries, and no significant debts moves through simple probate with predictable court filing fees, executor fees, and appraisal costs. A contested estate — disputed will validity, disagreements among heirs, or complex assets like a business — adds litigation-style hourly billing on top of the base probate costs, which is why complex-case figures on this page run substantially above the simple-case median.
Take a moderate-complexity estate planning / probate matter in Wyoming. The recorded median total is $1,900, with reported quotes clustering between $950 and $2,900. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $310–$925, which leaves roughly $975–$1,590 of the Wyoming median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes.
At $1,900, the median estate planning / probate cost in Wyoming runs 3% below the $1,954 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Wyoming carries 3 rows — simple, $300–$1,000 at $135–$250/hr over 1-2 weeks; moderate, $950–$2,900 at $160–$320/hr over 2-6 weeks; complex, $2,850–$9,500 at $230–$435/hr over 1-3 months — on 4 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$1,900 is a median, not the middle of the band — $950 above the $950 floor, $1,000 under the $2,900 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 46.
Wyoming occupies the 30th row of 46 for a estate planning / probate. Its $1,900 median trails the $2,075 table midpoint by $175, which is 8% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
In the estate planning / probate table Wyoming falls between Florida at $1,850 and Oregon at $1,950, $50 above the first and $50 below the second.
5 tracked states — Indiana, Oregon, Florida, Michigan among them — record a median within three percent of Wyoming's $1,900. The figure sits in the densest part of the estate planning / probate distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
Rate and total sit 1 place apart — 31st of 46 at $250 an hour against 30th on the estate planning / probate total — which is close enough to read as the same signal.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Wyoming |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | Georgia | $2,050 | +$150 |
| 25 | Ohio | $2,050 | +$150 |
| 26 | Minnesota | $2,000 | +$100 |
| 27 | Pennsylvania | $2,000 | +$100 |
| 28 | Indiana | $1,950 | +$50 |
| 29 | Oregon | $1,950 | +$50 |
| 30 | Wyoming | $1,900 | — |
| 31 | Florida | $1,850 | −$50 |
| 32 | Michigan | $1,850 | −$50 |
| 33 | Tennessee | $1,850 | −$50 |
| 34 | Iowa | $1,750 | −$150 |
| 35 | New Mexico | $1,750 | −$150 |
| 36 | Nebraska | $1,650 | −$250 |
$50 up or $50 down moves Wyoming a row. A ten percent revision to the underlying figure would cross 11 rows in total — 6 up, 5 down — so the rank reads better as a band than as a precise place.
Climbing five places would mean passing Ohio, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Oregon and adding $150 to the $1,900 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Florida, Michigan, Tennessee, Iowa, New Mexico: $150.
$700 short of Hawaii ($2,600), $550 clear of Alabama ($1,350).
The $1,900 median covers only about 8 hours at the $250 median rate, which is short enough that flat-fee and limited-scope arrangements, rather than an hourly meter, tend to describe how the work is actually billed. The peer median is 7 hours, so 1 more hours of work sit behind the Wyoming figure than behind the typical state's.
Moving from a simple to a complex estate planning / probate multiplies the Wyoming total by 9.5, and almost all of that is hours rather than price: 3 hours at $185 becomes 18 hours at $320, so the workload grows 6x while the rate grows only 1.73x. Complexity here buys attorney time, not a premium hourly rate.
From $950 to $2,900 the moderate band is $1,950 wide, close to the $2,050 peer median. End to end that is 8 hours at $250.
A third ordering: by implied hours Wyoming is 13th of 46 at 8 hours, 17 places above its cost rank of 30th on cost — more work behind the same estate planning / probate money.
58% up the $950–$2,900 band sits the $2,075 table midpoint, buying 8 hours at $250 against the 8 the local estate planning / probate median implies — 0 hours apart.
| Measure | Wyoming | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $1,900 | 30th |
| Hourly median | $250 | 31st |
| Implied hours | 8 | 13th |
| Simple median | $600 | 28th |
| Complex median | $5,700 | 30th |
$250 an hour puts Wyoming between Ohio ($255) and Idaho ($245) — not the estate planning / probate cost pairing.
No other tracked state records $250 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Wyoming on its own within this dataset.
$1,900 buys 10 hours at $185, 8 at $250, 6 at $320.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 29 | Georgia | $260 |
| 30 | Ohio | $255 |
| 31 | Wyoming | $250 |
| 32 | Idaho | $245 |
| 33 | Indiana | $245 |
The ranking barely moves across tiers — 28th at the simple tier, 30th at moderate, 30th at complex of 46 — so Wyoming keeps roughly the same relative position whether the estate planning / probate is straightforward or contested.
$600 is 28th of 46 on a straightforward estate planning / probate, under Oregon ($600) and over Florida ($550), $25 under the $625 tier midpoint.
$5,700 is 30th of 46 once contested, between Wisconsin ($5,750) and Michigan ($5,650), $200 off the $5,900 tier midpoint.
The three bands are continuous in Wyoming: the simple tier reaches $1,000 where the moderate tier starts at $950, and the moderate tier reaches $2,900 where the complex tier starts at $2,850. A single quoted figure can therefore belong to two different tiers, and the tier label — not the number — is what identifies which.
| Tier | Wyoming | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $600 | 28th | $625 | 3 |
| moderate | $1,900 | 30th | $2,075 | 8 |
| complex | $5,700 | 30th | $5,900 | 18 |
$600 puts Wyoming 28th of 46 on straightforward matters, 2 up on its moderate position, and $25 (4%) under the $625 tier midpoint.
3 implied hours at $185: 38% of the moderate tier's 8, over 1-2 weeks.
Oregon ($600) and Florida ($550) bracket it — a $50 window.
4 states sit within three percent of the $600 here, against 5 at the moderate row.
$5,700 keeps Wyoming at 30th on contested matters, the same place it holds on the headline figure, $200 (3%) under the $5,900 tier midpoint.
18 implied hours at $320: 225% of the moderate tier's 8, over 1-3 months.
Wisconsin ($5,750) and Michigan ($5,650) bracket it — a $100 window.
8 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $5,700, denser than the 5 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | Indiana | $600 |
| 27 | Oregon | $600 |
| 28 | Wyoming | $600 |
| 29 | Florida | $550 |
| 30 | Nevada | $550 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 28 | Utah | $5,750 |
| 29 | Wisconsin | $5,750 |
| 30 | Wyoming | $5,700 |
| 31 | Michigan | $5,650 |
| 32 | Nevada | $5,600 |
Among the 8 matter types tracked in Wyoming, a estate planning / probate records the smallest median at $1,900, below Real Estate Closing on the line above.
The state does not rank uniformly. Wyoming is 19th of 46 for Personal Injury but 37th for Bankruptcy, a 18-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 30th on estate planning / probate 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; estate planning / probate is 30th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 36th percentile of the 46 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. $600 ÷ $185 = about 3 hours — 5 fewer than the moderate tier's 8, and $1,300 less.
Work against price. $1,900 to $5,700 is a $3,800 step, mostly work: 10 more hours at $250 is $2,500, while moving to $320 across 18 hours adds $1,260. Work carries 66%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Budgeting from Florida ($1,850) lands $50 under Wyoming; from Oregon ($1,950), $50 over; from the $2,075 table midpoint, $175 out.
Contested against simple. At Wyoming's own recorded figures, $5,700 buys 9.5 matters at the $600 simple median — or, counted in time, 18 implied hours against 3, a factor of 6 — 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.