Breaking a lease in Wyoming

Under the Wyoming Safe Homes Act, a tenant who leaves because of domestic abuse or sexual violence and gives you seven days' written notice before moving out is not liable for rent for the period after moving out. The tenant or a household member must have faced a credible imminent threat of domestic abuse or sexual violence at the premises, shown by medical, court or police evidence, or have been a victim of it on premises you own or control.

W.S. 1-21-1303 W.S. 1-21-1304

• For abuse or violence that already happened on the premises, the notice must give the reason, the date, and state that the tenant provided medical, court or police evidence. The abuse must have occurred within 60 days before the notice, or, if the tenant could not reasonably give notice in that time because of hospitalization, shelter, counseling or similar reasons, as soon as practicable after. W.S. 1-21-1303(b)
• The Act is not a defense to rent owed for the time before the tenant left and gave notice, or to an eviction for rent unpaid before then. W.S. 1-21-1303(d)
• These rights cannot be waived or modified in a lease or separate agreement. W.S. 1-21-1304
• You may end the agreement yourself when a required repair would cost more than is reasonable, and a court may end it in a repair case. W.S. 1-21-1203(d) W.S. 1-21-1206(c) See Tenant repair remedies on the Wyoming page
• The articles read for this page set no other early-termination right and no rule on re-renting after a tenant leaves; court decisions were not read. W.S. 1-21-1201 to 1-21-1211

The Wyoming articles read for this page set no notice period for ending a month-to-month tenancy. A tenant who holds over after the term ends may be evicted after the three-day notice to leave. Other parts of the Wyoming Statutes were not read on this question.

W.S. 1-21-1002(a)(i) W.S. 1-21-1003

• Holding over after the term is one of the grounds for an eviction case. W.S. 1-21-1002(a)(i) See Eviction process on the Wyoming page