Guardianship Petition - Preparation Worksheet - Wyoming

WYOMING GUARDIANSHIP MATTER-CLASSIFICATION AND PETITION-DEVELOPMENT PACKET

Do not file or sign this packet as a petition. Use it to identify the legal track, current court-accepted forms, required evidence, participants, notices, safeguards, and proposed authority before counsel prepares a separate filing.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Matter Header
2. Track Classification
3. Court, Form, and Authority Control
4. Person and Support Facts
5. Petitioner and Proposed Fiduciary Facts
6. Participants, Notice, and Service Map
7. Evidence and Safeguards
8. Proposed Powers and Restrictions
9. Post-Order Administration Questions
10. Filing-Package Control
11. Open-Issue Record
12. Drafting Sign-Off

1. MATTER HEADER

• Subject person's full name, aliases, date of birth, and current location: [DETAILS]
• Petitioner or requester name, relationship, address, and contact information: [DETAILS]
• Proposed guardian or conservator, if different: [DETAILS]
• Existing case, order, nomination, power of attorney, trust, representative payee, supported-decision arrangement, or protective-services involvement: [DETAILS / DOCUMENTS]
• Urgency, safety, health, placement, property, benefits, litigation, or deadline issue: [DETAILS]
• Packet opened by / date: [NAME / DATE]

2. TRACK CLASSIFICATION

Counsel must identify the track from current authority and accepted forms. Do not combine tracks merely because they concern the same person.

☐ Minor guardianship
☐ Adult guardianship
☐ Conservatorship or property-management authority
☐ Limited authority
☐ Emergency or temporary relief
☐ Interstate, transfer, recognition, or existing out-of-state order
☐ Review, modification, resignation, removal, termination, or restoration
☐ Alternative support may avoid or narrow a protective proceeding
☐ Other: [DETAILS]

Selected track and reason: [DETAILS / COUNSEL / DATE]

3. COURT, FORM, AND AUTHORITY CONTROL

No court, form, citation, standard, or filing route is supplied by this packet.

4. PERSON AND SUPPORT FACTS

• Current residence, household, caregivers, school or program, providers, and daily supports: [DETAILS]
• Decision areas in which support is requested: [DETAILS]
• Specific recent events, risks, decisions, or unmet needs: [DATES / FACTS / RECORDS]
• Person's preferences, values, communication method, language, accommodations, and requested participation: [DETAILS]
• Existing decision-making abilities and supports by domain: [DETAILS]
• Alternatives considered, tried, available, rejected, or needing development: [DETAILS]
• Requested duration and why any narrower or time-limited option is insufficient: [DETAILS]

This section records facts and options; it states no incapacity, best-interest, necessity, or least-restrictive legal conclusion.

5. PETITIONER AND PROPOSED FIDUCIARY FACTS

• Identity, age, residence, citizenship or immigration issue if relevant, relationship, and contact information: [DETAILS]
• Availability, experience, training, proposed role, conflicts, compensation, and support plan: [DETAILS]
• Criminal, civil, protective-order, bankruptcy, licensing, caregiving, financial, or other disclosure counsel requires: [DETAILS]
• Existing debts, claims, transactions, gifts, accounts, property possession, or adverse interests involving the subject person: [DETAILS]
• Alternative nominees, priority claims, consents, objections, or reasons for nonappointment: [DETAILS]
• Background check, bond, insurance, oath, acceptance, qualification, or other gate identified by current authority: [DETAILS / SOURCE]

6. PARTICIPANTS, NOTICE, AND SERVICE MAP

Unknown, missing, deceased, confidential-address, tribal, military, incarcerated, minor, incapacitated, or out-of-state participant issue: [DETAILS].

7. EVIDENCE AND SAFEGUARDS

• Required medical, psychological, educational, functional, financial, or other evaluation: [DETAILS / CURRENT FORM / DATE]
• Witnesses and expected fact testimony: [DETAILS]
• Documents, records, prior orders, nominations, consents, and objections: [DETAILS]
• Confidential filing, sealing, redaction, interpreter, disability access, remote appearance, transportation, or safety issue: [DETAILS]
• Counsel, guardian ad litem, visitor, examiner, investigator, or other appointment question: [DETAILS / AUTHORITY]
• Rights advisement, hearing participation, evidence, cross-examination, jury, appeal, or review question requiring current authority: [DETAILS]

No procedural right, appointment, evidentiary rule, or hearing treatment is supplied here.

8. PROPOSED POWERS AND RESTRICTIONS

This packet creates no guardian power, fiduciary duty, bond, indemnity, liability cap, or remedy.

9. POST-ORDER ADMINISTRATION QUESTIONS

No post-order duty, deadline, power, or remedy is supplied by this packet.

10. FILING-PACKAGE CONTROL

Filing, service, hearing, and follow-up instructions recorded from current authority or written clerk direction: [DETAILS / SOURCE / DATE].

11. OPEN-ISSUE RECORD

No requested adjudication, appointment, power, bond, letters, fee, or other relief is supplied by this packet.

12. DRAFTING SIGN-OFF — NOT PETITION VERIFICATION OR EXECUTION