How to fill out Wyoming MV-308

Filed while you are alive, this single sheet takes a vehicle out of probate altogether. You name the vehicle, you name yourself and any co-owner, you name up to three beneficiaries, you sign it in front of a notary, and you record it with the county clerk of the county where the vehicle is titled. On the death of the last surviving owner the beneficiary walks into the same office with the recorded form and a certified death certificate, pays the title fee, and is issued a new certificate. Nothing about it ties your hands in the meantime: the statute says the beneficiary's consent is not required for any transaction related to the vehicle, so you can sell it tomorrow to whoever you like, and selling it is itself one of the two ways the designation is revoked.

Written against MV-308 (7/25), issued under WYDOT Motor Vehicle Services under W.S. 31-2-104.1, recorded with the county clerk of the county where the vehicle is titled. The one thing worth checking before you fill this in is the front of your own certificate, because if it already says JTWROS the designation may be solving a problem you have not got. A Wyoming title held in joint tenancy with right of survivorship passes to the survivor on a death certificate, and the designation on this form only operates on the death of the last surviving owner. The two are complements, not alternatives - the survivorship handles the first death, this handles the second - and a couple who understand that will file this form once, in both their names, rather than twice.

Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank MV-308 from the dot.state.wy.us copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our MV-308 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.

Step 1 · the form itself Blank MV-308 — Wyoming Automatic Transfer of a Vehicle Title Upon Death to Beneficiary Designation Form PDF at dot.state.wy.us · new tab Step 2 · how to fill it in Our filled-in MV-308 guide PDF · print and keep beside you

Filled in

What a completed one looks like

This is the actual MV-308, rendered from the PDF the Wyoming Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Services publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.

Amber — you write it
Grey — not yours to fill
Numbered — explained below

A completed Wyoming Automatic Transfer of a Vehicle Title Upon Death to Beneficiary Designation Form. The identification number 1J4RR5GT4DC682194 runs one character to a box across seventeen printed cells, above year 2013, make Jeep and model Grand Cherokee Laredo. The title owner is Tiegen, Verlene A. of 1418 Cottonwood Loop, Sheridan, Wyoming 82801, with a phone number and email. The additional owner rows are greyed out. The first beneficiary row names Tiegen, Bryce A. with a date of birth of 06/12/1994, a phone number and an email, and the second and third beneficiary rows are greyed out. The owner has signed and printed her name with a date of 09/11/2026. The notarial acknowledgement at the foot is left blank for the officer. — Rendered from WYDOT's own PDF. Amber is the owner's; grey is the second and third beneficiary rows and the co-owner block, which this designation does not use, and the notary block is left for the officer. Every name, address, date of birth and number is invented, and the identification number identifies no vehicle.

Field by field

Every line, in the order you meet it

1
You fill this in
Check the front of the certificate first
Whether it reads JTWROS, how the owner names are joined, and whether a lender is still printed in the lien table.
Watch out: A lien printed on the front follows the vehicle to your beneficiary. If you want them to take it clean, get the lien released and endorsed before you file this.
2
You fill this in
The vehicle block
Seventeen cells for the identification number, then year, make and model - all required.
Watch out: Copy the identification number off the certificate. This form is going to be recorded and then sit in a drawer for years, and nobody will re-check it until the day it matters.
3
You fill this in
The owner block, exactly as the title reads
Last name then first name, address, city, state and zip, phone, and email if you want one - then the second row if the title carries a co-owner.
Watch out: If the title says Tiegen, Verlene A. then that is what goes here, initial and all. The clerk is matching this against the record, not reading it for sense.
4
You fill this in
Name the beneficiaries
Up to three, each with a name or a legal entity, a date of birth, a phone number and an email.
Watch out: A legal entity is allowed, which is how a family trust or a company ends up on one of these. If you name more than one person, ask the clerk how their office titles the result before you assume it is what you meant.
5
You fill this in
Sign under the perjury line
Signature, printed name and date, one row for each owner on the title.
Watch out: Read the sentence directly above the signatures before you sign it. A name change or an added owner after today wipes the form out, and nobody sends you a reminder.
6
Somebody else fills this in
Have it notarised
The acknowledgement at the foot is completed by the notarial officer, with the owners' printed names, the county, the date, the signature, commission expiry and seal.
Watch out: The form says the acknowledgement below must be completed - it is not the optional half of the page.
7
You fill this in
Record it with the right county clerk
The office of the county clerk in the county where the vehicle is titled, which is where the beneficiary will come looking for it.
Watch out: Tell the beneficiary it exists and which courthouse it is in. A recorded form nobody knows about achieves nothing that probate would not have achieved more slowly.

At a glance

What goes where

On the form	What to put in it
Vehicle identification number	Seventeen printed cells across the top, one character to a box, and marked as a required field.
Year, make and model	One row under the identification number, all three required.
Title owner, last name then first name	As it appears on the certificate. This form is about the person on the title, not the person who drives it.
Address, city, state and zip	The owner's, all required, with an optional email and a required phone number underneath.
Additional title owners	A second row for a co-owner, with their own email and phone. Optional on the form because not every Wyoming title has two names on it.
Designation of transfer on death	The heading block. Its printed sentence does the legal work: the grantee beneficiary is designated by the owner upon the death of the last surviving owner named above, unless the form has been revoked or ownership was previously transferred, and the transfer is subject to all liens.
Up to three beneficiaries	Three identical rows, each taking a last and first name or a legal entity, a date of birth, a phone number and an email. The first row's name, date of birth and phone are required; the second and third rows are there if you want them.
The acknowledgement under penalty of perjury	That you are the titled owner of the vehicle - and immediately under it, the warning that the form is revoked if there is a name change or an owner is added to the title after it was filed.
Three owner signature rows	Signature, printed name and date, one row per owner, so a title in three names can be designated on one sheet.
The notarial acknowledgement	Subscribed and sworn to before me by, with the owners' printed names, the state, the county, the day, month and year, then the notary's signature, commission expiry and seal. The form states plainly that the acknowledgement below must be completed.

What gets this one rejected

•Filing it in the wrong county. The instruction sits directly under the title of the form: it is recorded in the office of the county clerk in the county where the vehicle is titled. Not where you live now, not where the beneficiary lives.
•Adding somebody to the title afterwards. The form revokes itself if an owner is added after the original filing, and the person who finds that out is your beneficiary, at the counter, on a bad day.
•Leaving a starred field blank. The footnote at the bottom of the sheet marks the required data fields, and they include the beneficiary's date of birth and phone number as well as the obvious ones.
•Treating it as a will for the vehicle. The statute is the other way round - the designation cannot be changed or revoked by will or any other instrument, or by a change in circumstances. A later will that leaves the truck to somebody else does not move it.
•Assuming the beneficiary takes it clean. The interest passes subject to any contract of sale, assignment, lien, ownership or security interest the deceased owner was subject to. An unpaid loan follows the vehicle to them.

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

•It is a no-probate transfer, and the statute says so in those words. W.S. 31-2-104.1(k): the transfer of a vehicle pursuant to this section is a no probate transfer pursuant to the Wyoming Probate Code. That is the whole point of the exercise.
•Two ways to revoke, both of them acts rather than declarations. Transferring ownership of the vehicle by properly assigning and delivering the certificate to somebody else, or executing a later designation form naming a new beneficiary. There is no revocation box on the form.
•The beneficiary presents three things. The recorded form or a copy of it, a certified copy of the death certificate of the owner or the last surviving owner, and the certificate of title application fee. The clerk then issues the new title, subject to any liens.
•The estate is not on the hook for doing it. The statute protects a personal representative and a successor who did not actually know a valid, unrevoked designation existed - neither is liable for obtaining a new certificate or transferring the title.
•It is not the only death route in Wyoming, and it is the only one you file in advance. A surviving joint tenant with right of survivorship applies for a new title with a certified death certificate and no sales or use tax is due; that survivor may instead sell the vehicle straight on by making the ordinary notarised assignment and giving the buyer a certified copy of the death certificate; and thirty days after a death, where the whole Wyoming estate is under the small-estate ceiling and no personal representative has been appointed, an affidavit filed with the county clerk moves the vehicle to the distributees.

Every line here was read off MV-308 (7/25) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Wyoming Department of Transportation, Motor Vehicle Services pages. This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ, theirs governs.

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How to fill out Wyoming MV-308

What a completed one looks like

Every line, in the order you meet it

Check the front of the certificate first

The vehicle block

The owner block, exactly as the title reads

Name the beneficiaries

Sign under the perjury line

Have it notarised

Record it with the right county clerk

What goes where

What gets this one rejected

Rules that decide whether it is accepted

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