Wyoming requires ten years of adverse possession to claim title to real property. Under Wyo. Stat. § 1-3-103, an action to recover title or possession of land must be brought within ten years after the cause of action accrues, which is the limitation period that lets a continuous, open, hostile occupant ripen into ownership.
Wyoming's adverse possession period runs through its real-property limitations statute. Wyo. Stat. § 1-3-103 provides that 'an action for the recovery of the title or possession of lands, tenements or hereditaments can only be brought within ten (10) years after the cause of such action accrues.' Once that ten-year window passes, the record owner is time-barred and a possessor whose use has been actual, open and notorious, exclusive, continuous, and hostile for the full period may perfect title. A mere squatter without these elements has no rights and is removed through the forcible entry and detainer process (Wyo. Stat. §§ 1-21-1001 et seq.). The ten-year clock and common-law elements set a high bar for any claim.
No specific statutory penalty. A squatter who does not meet all common-law elements for the full ten years acquires no title and may be removed as a holdover or trespasser through a forcible entry and detainer action.
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