The personal representative shall take possession of all of the estate of the decedent, real and personal, and collect all debts due the decedent or the estate. For the purpose of bringing suit to quiet title or for partition of the estate, the possession of the personal representative is the possession of the distributees. Possession by the distributees is subject to the possession of the personal representative for the purposes of administration as applied to this chapter.
Wyo. Stat. Ann. § 2-7-103
Personal representative to take possession of estate
Applied in 1 court decision — leading case In the Matter of the Estate of Mary Mae Fisher, Deceased: Dwight Lyman and Betty L. Lyman, Trustees of the Dwight Lyman Living Trust Dated November 11, 2016, and Betty L. Lyman and Dwight Lyman, Trustees of the Betty L. Lyman Living Trust Dated November 11, 2016 v. George Wayne Fisher (2023)
Most recently applied in In the Matter of the Estate of Mary Mae Fisher, Deceased: Dwight Lyman and Betty L. Lyman, Trustees of the Dwight Lyman Living Trust Dated November 11, 2016, and Betty L. Lyman and Dwight Lyman, Trustees of the Betty L. Lyman Living Trust Dated November 11, 2016 v. George Wayne Fisher (March 2023)
Official source: Wyoming Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Wyoming statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.