Title 34 · WY
4-10-510 through 4-10-515 or involving transfers to an
Citation: Wyo. Stat. § 4-10-510
Section: 4-10-510
4-10-510 through 4-10-515 or involving transfers to an irrevocable discretionary trust, provided that the trustee may only make discretionary distributions under W.S. 4-10-506(c), is extinguished unless an action is brought:
(i) With respect to a creditor known to the settlor, one hundred twenty (120) days after the date on which notice of the transfer is mailed to the creditor, provided that the notice states:
(A) The name and address of the settlor or the settlor's representative and the name and address of the trustee or the trustee's representative;
(B) That assets were transferred to a qualified spendthrift trust or to an irrevocable trust where the trustee can only make discretionary distributions; and
(C) That the creditor is required to initiate an action against the settlor and the trustee within one hundred twenty (120) days from the mailing of the notice or the claim is forever barred.
(ii) With respect to a creditor not known to the settlor, one hundred twenty (120) days after the date on which notice of the transfer is first published in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the settlor resides, provided that the notice includes the information required in paragraph (i) of this subsection;
(iii) Notwithstanding paragraphs (i) and (ii) of this subsection, within the later of two (2) years after the transfer is made or six (6) months after the transfer is or reasonably could have been discovered by the creditor if the creditor can demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the creditor asserted a specific claim against the settlor before the transfer.
34-14-211. Supplementary provisions.
Unless displaced by the provisions of this act, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant and the law relating to principal and agent, estoppel, laches, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, insolvency, or other validating or invalidating cause, supplement its provisions.
34-14-212. Uniformity of application and construction.
This act shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this act among states enacting it.
CHAPTER 15 - ALIEN LAND
34-15-101. Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 93, § 1.
34-15-102. Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 93, § 1.
34-15-103. Repealed By Laws 2001, Ch. 93, § 1.
CHAPTER 16 - COMMERCIAL TRANSACTIONS; BILLS OF LADING
34-16-101. Order bill of lading.
(a) Whenever any common carrier, railroad or transportation company (hereinafter termed carrier), shall issue a bill of lading for the transportation of property from one (1) place to another within this state, or between places one (1) of which is within this state, which bill shall be, or purport to be drawn to the order of the shipper or other specified person, or which shall contain any statement or representation that the property described therein is, or may be deliverable upon the order of any person therein mentioned, such bill shall be known as an "order bill of lading" and shall conform to the following requirements:
(i) In connection with the name of the person to whose order the property is deliverable, the words "order of" shall prominently appear in print on the face of the bill thus: "Consigned to order of ....";
(ii) The bill shall be printed on yellow paper eight and one-half (8 1/2) inches by eleven (11) inches long;
(iii) It shall contain on its face the following provision: "The surrender of this original order bill of lading properly endorsed shall be required before delivery of the property"; (iv) It shall not contain the words: "Not negotiable", or words of similar import. If such words are placed on an order bill of lading, they shall be void and of no effect;
(v) Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the insertion in an order bill of lading of other terms or conditions not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, but it shall be unlawful to insert in such bill any terms or conditions contrary to, or inconsistent with such provisions.
34-16-102. Straight bill of lading.
(a) Whenever a bill of lading is issued by a carrier for the transportation of property from one (1) place to another within this state, or between places one (1) of which is within this state, in which the property described therein is stated to be consigned or deliverable to a specified person, without any statement or representation that such property is consigned or deliverable to the order of any person, such bill shall be known as a "straight bill of lading", and shall contain the following requirements:
(i) The bill shall be printed on white paper eight and one-half (8 1/2) inches wide by eleven (11) inches long;
(ii) The bill shall have prominently stamped upon its face the words, "not negotiable";
(iii) Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit the insertion in a straight bill of lading of other terms or conditions not inconsistent with the provisions of this act; but it shall be unlawful to insert in such bill any term or conditions contrary to or inconsistent with such provisions.
34-16-103. Penalty for violation of W.S. 34-16-101 and