The Legal Ground You’re Standing On
Wyoming MCA law: the three facts that shape every option
Every resolution strategy — renegotiation, settlement, defense, refinancing — plays out differently depending on these three pieces of Wyoming law. A firm that can’t speak to them isn’t the best firm for a Wyoming file.
1Usury limits & the recharacterization question
Wyoming has no usury cap on agreed commercial rates: the 7% rate in Wyo. Stat. § 40-14-106(e) applies only absent an agreement, parties may contract for any written rate, and the UCCC's rate protections govern consumer credit only — no criminal usury statute reaches commercial transactions. Recharacterizing a Wyoming MCA as a loan therefore carries little usury consequence under Wyoming law itself; the risk analysis for Wyoming merchants runs through the contract's chosen out-of-state law and general contract and UCC doctrines.
Sources: Wyo. Stat. § 40-14-106 (7% default; any agreed rate) · Wyoming Statutes Title 40 (official PDF)
2Confessions of judgment in Wyoming
Court appearance required commercially Wyoming recognizes confessed judgments with safeguards: Wyo. Stat. § 1-16-201 requires the debtor to personally appear in court and confess with the creditor's assent, and § 1-16-202 requires an attorney confessing on a warrant to produce and file the warrant with the court. Consumer cognovit authorizations are void (§§ 40-14-249, 40-14-338). A New York-style remote entry doesn't fit the personal-appearance procedure, so out-of-state confessions against Wyoming businesses typically arrive by domestication instead.
Sources: Wyo. Stat. §§ 1-16-201, -202 (Title 1 official PDF) · Wyo. Stat. §§ 40-14-249, -338 (consumer cognovits void; Title 40 PDF)
3Commercial financing disclosure: where Wyoming stands
Wyoming has not enacted a commercial financing disclosure law — the March 2026 Venable survey lists the enacted states with Wyoming absent, and the 2025–26 sessions produced no MCA bill. Wyoming merchants hold no statutory right to pre-signing cost disclosures, and with no rate cap on written agreements, the contract's actual terms carry all the weight.
Sources: Venable — State Commercial Financing Disclosure Laws (Mar. 2026)
How funders actually enforce here: Out-of-state judgments domesticate under Wyoming's UEFJA (Wyo. Stat. §§ 1-17-701 to -707): the authenticated judgment filed with a district court clerk is treated as a Wyoming judgment, the creditor files an affidavit of the debtor's address, notice is mailed, and no execution may issue until five days after filing — the shortest window of any state, so a Wyoming merchant who receives a domestication notice must move immediately. Post-judgment collection uses writs of garnishment (§§ 1-15-401 et seq.), and funders file UCC-1 liens through the Secretary of State's e-filing system. No Wyoming MCA court decision could be verified. Wyo. Stat. §§ 1-17-701 to -707 (UEFJA; 5-day window; Title 1 PDF) · Wyoming Secretary of State — Business Division / UCC