Wyoming Charging Order Protection — What Creditors Actually Get

What Wyoming's charging order statute actually says, read directly from the compiled Title 17 text — not a summary of a summary. Source matrix: llc-charging-order-protection-by-state. Not legal advice.

Short answer

A judgment against a Wyoming LLC member does not give the creditor a claim on the LLC itself, a vote, or a right to force a sale. Wyo. Stat. Ann. Sec. 17-29-503 gives the creditor exactly one tool — a charging order redirecting the member's distributions — and Sec. 17-29-503(g) makes that the exclusive remedy, naming foreclosure specifically as something “not available to the judgment creditor” and something the court “may not order.” That exclusivity reaches single-member LLCs by name, not by silence: subsection (g) applies to “any judgment debtor who may be the sole member, dissociated member or transferee.” Wyoming, Texas, and Nevada share this exact posture — exclusive remedy, no foreclosure, no single-member carve-out — while 10 states nationally weaken protection for single-member LLCs specifically.

What the statute actually says

Independently re-read from the compiled Wyoming Title 17 text (the same primary-source document the sitewide matrix cites, sha256-verified against that citation) rather than taken on trust from a summary:

The mechanism, Sec. 17-29-503(a): “On application by a judgment creditor of a member or transferee, a court may enter a charging order against the transferable interest of the judgment debtor for the unsatisfied amount of the judgment. A charging order requires the limited liability company to pay over to the person to which the charging order was issued any distribution that would otherwise be paid to the judgment debtor.”

The exclusivity and foreclosure bar, Sec. 17-29-503(g): “This section provides the exclusive remedy by which a person seeking to enforce a judgment against a judgment debtor, including any judgment debtor who may be the sole member, dissociated member or transferee, may, in the capacity of the judgment creditor, satisfy the judgment from the judgment debtor's transferable interest or from the assets of the limited liability company. Other remedies, including foreclosure on the judgment debtor's limited liability interest and a court order for directions, accounts and inquiries that the judgment debtor might have made are not available to the judgment creditor attempting to satisfy a judgment out of the judgment debtor's interest in the limited liability company and may not be ordered by the court.”

Two other subsections worth naming: (e) lets the LLC or another member pay off the judgment in full and step into the creditor's shoes, extinguishing the charging order that way; (f) preserves whatever exemption laws would otherwise apply to the member's interest. Neither changes the exclusivity finding above — both describe how the charging order can end, not an alternative remedy alongside it.

Same posture as Texas and Nevada

The sitewide matrix independently confirms Texas (Tex. Bus. Orgs. Code Sec. 101.112) and Nevada (NRS 86.401(2)(a)) read the same way: exclusive remedy, no foreclosure, explicit coverage of single-member LLCs rather than silence on the question. Wyoming's Sec. 17-29-503(g) — “any judgment debtor who may be the sole member” — is that same pattern in Wyoming's own words, not an inference from a gap in the statute the way it is in several other states.

Where Wyoming sits nationally

42 of 51 jurisdictions in the sitewide matrix make the charging order the exclusive remedy; Wyoming is one of them. Among those 42, roughly half still let a court order foreclosure once distributions won't satisfy the debt in a reasonable time — Wyoming does not; Sec. 17-29-503(g) bars foreclosure outright, placing it with the strict-model states rather than the permissive ones. Ten states carve single-member LLCs out of full protection; Wyoming, by explicit statutory text, is not one of them. The full 51-state breakdown, including which states fall into which model and why, lives on the sitewide explainer — not repeated here.

What this page does not prove

• A charging order is not the only asset-protection tool Wyoming offers. Wyoming separately authorizes a self-settled asset protection trust — a different statute, a different mechanism, and a different set of tradeoffs, covered on its own page, not this one. See the sitewide Domestic Asset Protection Trust States — Explainer for that separate mechanism.
• Case law can narrow a statute's reach without amending its text. The sitewide matrix flags reported decisions in a few other states that read as narrowing charging-order exclusivity on specific fact patterns; no such decision is recorded against Wyoming's statute in the matrix as of this page's last-checked date, but that is a statement about what has been found, not a guarantee about what a future court could hold.
• This tracks the domestic-LLC line only. Wyoming corporations, partnerships, and foreign-LLC provisions are not covered by this citation.
• Reverse veil-piercing is a separate legal theory, outside the charging order framework and outside this page's scope entirely.

This page is general information about Wyoming's statutes, not advice about your situation; whether a Wyoming LLC or trust would protect your assets depends on facts specific to you, and is a decision to make with your own attorney.

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