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Wyoming Small Claims Checker (2026)

Enter your claim amount to see whether it fits under the Wyoming small claims limit ($6,000), with the filing fee and whether a lawyer is allowed at the hearing.

Draft entry: figures pending source verificationLast reviewed July 2026Source wyocourts.gov

Wyoming small claims checker

Small claims · Wyoming

The dollar amount you would ask the court for: the deposit, the unpaid bill, the repair cost. Interest and court costs usually sit on top of the limit, not inside it.

Draft entry: figures pending source verification. Confirm with the official source before relying on this result.
Wyoming rule applied to your claim
Wyoming small claims limit
$6,000
One statewide limit. Small claims are a division of the circuit court. The $6,000 cap is the most you can recover through the small claims procedure. If your claim is larger you may still file in small claims, but you waive anything over $6,000, or you can file a regular civil case in circuit or district court instead.
Your claim against it
$0
Enter an amount above to compare it against the limit.
Filing fee
~$10 · the small claims filing fee is set low statewide at about $10; service of the summons by the sheriff or a private server costs extra and is separate
Lawyers at the hearing
Allowed · Attorneys are permitted but not required. The small claims procedure waives the formal rules of evidence and is built for people to represent themselves.
Statute
Wyo. Stat. §1-21-201 (through §1-21-205)

Enter your claim amount above to see it compared against the Wyoming figures.

Where and how to file is procedure this page does not walk through; the official self-help resource is Wyoming Judicial Branch small claims help. If your claim is a security deposit a landlord kept, the security deposit calculator shows the cap and the return deadline that apply to it.

Informational only, not legal advice, and not a prediction that any claim would succeed. Limits change and some states carve out claim types this summary cannot weigh. See the full rule and the citations on the Wyoming small claims reference, cited to Wyo. Stat. §1-21-201 (through §1-21-205).

How the Wyoming small claims limit works

Wyoming keeps small claims simple. The limit is $6,000, set by Wyo. Stat. §1-21-201, and cases are heard in the small claims division of the circuit court. The statute puts it plainly: the procedure applies to civil cases before a circuit court where the amount claimed, not counting costs, does not exceed six thousand dollars. If your claim is bigger, you can still use small claims but you give up anything over $6,000, or you can take the case to regular circuit or district court. The filing fee is unusually low at about $10, though the sheriff or a process server charges separately to deliver the summons. Lawyers are allowed on either side but are not required, and the rules of evidence are relaxed so people can handle their own case. We confirmed the $6,000 figure against the statute text and the Wyoming Judicial Branch, but could not load the official state page verbatim at review time, so this page is marked draft until that direct check is done.

This checker compares your number to the Wyoming ceiling; it is informational only and not legal advice, and it says nothing about whether a claim would succeed. For where to file and what the hearing looks like, use the official self-help resource linked in the result. The full rule and the citations are on the Wyoming small claims reference.

Small claims checkers for other states

Same tool, each with its own ceiling and fee.