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Mississippi personal representative compensation

Mississippi executor fee calculator

Mississippi sets a statutory ceiling on the commission an executor or administrator may be allowed, but the controlling section, Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-299, is published only through a commercial (LexisNexis) contract this site cannot fetch, and no digital-era enacted Mississippi bill restates it (checked via the billstatus.ls.state.ms.us per-section code-affect indexes for 2008-2025). Because the operative ceiling cannot be reproduced from a harvestable primary source, no figure is published here. Consult Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-299 or the Chancery Court of the county of administration for the current commission ceiling.

Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch September 15, 2026.

1. Where and when
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2. Compensation base

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Mississippi estate snapshot

Gross probate propertyNot yet counted
Court chargeMore information neededChancery civil case including estate of a deceased (§ 25-7-9(2))2 asset entries have no value entered. A blank amount is not treated as zero, so the charge cannot be computed.Court charges only, for the proceeding named beside each figure. That proceeding is not always the route screened above.
Scheduled executor compensationMore information needed2 asset entries have no value entered.Mississippi sets a statutory ceiling on the commission an executor or administrator may be allowed, but the controlling section, Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-299, is published only through a commercial (LexisNexis) contract this site cannot fetch, and no digital-era enacted Mississippi bill restates it (checked via the billstatus.ls.state.ms.us per-section code-affect indexes for 2008-2025). Because the operative ceiling cannot be reproduced from a harvestable primary source, no figure is published here. Consult Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-299 or the Chancery Court of the county of administration for the current commission ceiling.

This route check is general information, not legal advice. It does not test every eligibility condition, creditor issue, will provision, local fee, or asset-title fact.

How Mississippi executor compensation works

In Mississippi, the personal representative (executor) is the person the court appoints, or the will nominates, to administer the estate. Mississippi compensation is governed by state statute and, where the statute permits, by the terms of the will or a court order, so the lawful Mississippi fee is whatever those authorities set — not a national rule of thumb.

This site publishes no compensation figure for Mississippi.

Mississippi sets a statutory ceiling on the commission an executor or administrator may be allowed, but the controlling section, Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-299, is published only through a commercial (LexisNexis) contract this site cannot fetch, and no digital-era enacted Mississippi bill restates it (checked via the billstatus.ls.state.ms.us per-section code-affect indexes for 2008-2025). Because the operative ceiling cannot be reproduced from a harvestable primary source, no figure is published here. Consult Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-299 or the Chancery Court of the county of administration for the current commission ceiling.

The calculator above will not return a Mississippi compensation number, because there is no verified rule to apply. A percentage borrowed from a neighbouring state would look authoritative and be wrong: compensation rules differ sharply between states, and the base they apply to differs even where the rate matches. Some states pay on the whole estate, some only on personal property, and some on money actually received and paid out, so the same estate can produce very different lawful fees.

What to do instead. Ask the Chancery Court whether it publishes a compensation schedule, a local rule, or a standing order on fiduciary fees, and ask whether a fee request must be approved before or after the work. Read the will first: where a will fixes compensation, that term usually governs unless someone petitions to change it.

Whatever standard applies, the record is what determines the outcome. Keep a contemporaneous log of dates, hours, tasks and the reason each was necessary, and keep it separate from estate expenses you paid out of pocket. A representative who can show the work is in a far stronger position than one asking a court to accept a round number after the fact, and beneficiaries are entitled to see how a fee was arrived at.

No Mississippi commission figure is published here

The Mississippi Code is distributed through LexisNexis rather than served from a Mississippi government host. The address advertised as the free public copy returns a JavaScript redirect shell, and the widely mirrored third-party copies refused the request outright on the date recorded below.

Mississippi executor compensation is set by the chancery court rather than by a printed percentage, which makes an unverified summary of it doubly unsafe: there is no schedule to check a quoted figure against, so an error would not be self-evident to a reader.

This site therefore states the shape of the Mississippi rule — a chancery court allowance on the estate’s accounting — and declines to attach a rate or a range to it.

The chancery clerk in the county where the estate is administered is the office that can confirm what the current code provides and what the court in that district expects to see supporting a fee petition.

Authority that would settle this: Miss. Code Ann. tit. 91, ch. 7 (executors and administrators). The access attempt described above was made on 2026-09-17. Nothing is quoted from it, because nothing could be read from it; a figure restated from a secondary summary would look like a sourced answer without being one.

Mississippi compensation map

Which figure the Mississippi fee rule actually measures

A percentage is not a fee answer until its base is known. This Mississippi map identifies the compensation standard and the accounting figure it uses, while keeping court approval and extraordinary work outside an invented total.

QuestionRecorded Mississippi answerCarry into the case
What route is being screened?Small-estate affidavit for collection of personal property (Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-322)Confirm that the will, prior appointment, family facts, and asset titles fit this route.
What property and basis count?personal probate property only; net of enforceable liens and encumbrances.Keep real property, liens, beneficiary transfers, and survivorship transfers classified separately.
What is the amount screen?$75,000Use the counted property, not a bank-balance shortcut.
What is the time or deadline record?30 days after death; No deadline is recorded here: Miss. Code Ann. §§ 91-7-145 (registration/probate of claims) and 91-7-151 (bar of claims not probated) govern the Mississippi creditor-claim procedure and the ninety-day bar from first publication of notice to creditors. Neither section was amended or restated by any digital-era enacted Mississippi bill (billstatus.ls.state.ms.us per-section code-affect indexes 2008–2025 show no enacting measure), and the codified sections are LexisNexis-only. The deadline framework is therefore not substantiated from a verified primary source and is recorded as UNKNOWN rather than guessed.Keep the event that starts each clock with the date; do not combine separate periods into one number.
What does the cost record establish?$135 is the recorded statewide amount.Ask the Chancery Court about local surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
What does compensation use?No compensation amount is recorded here: Mississippi sets a statutory ceiling on the commission an executor or administrator may be allowed, but the controlling section, Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-299, is published only through a commercial (LexisNexis) contract this site cannot fetch, and no digital-era enacted Mississippi bill restates it (checked via the billstatus.ls.state.ms.us per-section code-affect indexes for 2008-2025). Because the operative ceiling cannot be reproduced from a harvestable primary source, no figure is published here. Consult Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-299 or the Chancery Court of the county of administration for the current commission ceiling.Keep the will, task log, receipts, and accounting base together; extraordinary work is separate.

Compensation record

The Mississippi fee record, band by band

This is the registry view of the compensation rule, separate from the calculator result. It shows whether a rate schedule exists and what accounting base the schedule names. A blank band is not permission to borrow a percentage from another state.

Mississippi has no tier table this site can price from the accepted record. The accepted primary-source lane is still unresolved, so this site withholds a percentage.

Case-file context

Keep the Mississippi answer with its neighboring conditions

A route answer is easier to use when the facts that can change it stay in the same record. These are the reviewed Mississippi descriptions adjacent to this page\'s main question; they are not a substitute for the source quotations or the receiving court\'s instructions.

Route context

Mississippi provides a small-estate affidavit under Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-322 for personal property of a decedent whose estate, net of liens and encumbrances, does not exceed $75,000.00, available at least thirty (30) days after death and filed in the Chancery Court of the county of domicile. Opening an estate case costs a fixed statutory $135.00 (an $85.00 chancery-clerk service fee plus two mandatory § 25-7-9(3) per-case fund assessments of $10.00 and $40.00). The executor-commission ceiling (§ 91-7-299) and the creditor-claim bar (§§ 91-7-145/151) remain honest UNKNOWNs because they live only in the LexisNexis-contracted Mississippi Code and were never restated by a digital-era enacted bill, so no figure for either is published here.

After at least thirty (30) days from death, a successor may collect a Mississippi decedent's tangible personal property and money by affidavit where the value of the entire estate, excluding all liens and encumbrances, does not exceed $75,000.00 (Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-322 as revised by S.B. 2850, 2020, eff. July 1, 2020), no petition for appointment of a personal representative is pending or granted, and known debts are provided for.

Cost context

Opening a chancery civil case that 'includes ... estate of deceased' carries a fixed statutory total of $135.00: the single chancery-clerk service fee of $85.00 under Miss. Code Ann. § 25-7-9(2), plus two per-case add-on assessments mandated by § 25-7-9(3) for every civil case filed - $10.00 to the Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund (§ 9-21-14) and $40.00 to the Judicial System Operation Fund (§ 9-21-45). All three accrue on filing (as amended by S.B. 2792, 2024).

$135 is the recorded statewide amount.

Deadline context

No deadline is recorded here: Miss. Code Ann. §§ 91-7-145 (registration/probate of claims) and 91-7-151 (bar of claims not probated) govern the Mississippi creditor-claim procedure and the ninety-day bar from first publication of notice to creditors. Neither section was amended or restated by any digital-era enacted Mississippi bill (billstatus.ls.state.ms.us per-section code-affect indexes 2008–2025 show no enacting measure), and the codified sections are LexisNexis-only. The deadline framework is therefore not substantiated from a verified primary source and is recorded as UNKNOWN rather than guessed.

  • Executor commission ceiling (§ 91-7-299) is an honest UNKNOWN - the section is Lexis-locked and no digital-era enacting bill restates it, so no percentage is published here; consult § 91-7-299 or the Chancery Court.
  • Creditor-claim bar (§§ 91-7-145/151) is UNKNOWN - Lexis-locked, no digital-era enacting bill.

Court-material note: Mississippi probate (estates of decedents) is heard in the Chancery Court (confirmed: '§ 25-7-9(2) ... the clerks of the chancery courts'). There is no statewide small-estate form or single statewide filing-fee schedule beyond the § 25-7-9 chancery-clerk fee; the affidavit and administration are filed with the county chancery clerk.

Arithmetic illustration

See the Mississippi amount screen without mistaking it for a result

The recorded Mississippi ceiling is $75,000, and it is tested against personal probate property only, on a basis this site records as net of enforceable liens and encumbrances. Counted that way, $56,300 sits below the Mississippi figure and $93,800 sits above it. Both are comparisons to a published number rather than legal outcomes: two estates holding the same total can land on opposite sides of this line, because what Mississippi counts and how it values it are decided before the comparison is made.

Illustrative counted amountComparison to the Mississippi ceilingWhat it does not decide
$56,300Below $75,000Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties
$93,800Above $75,000Whether another statutory route or court process applies

Next evidence to collect

Bring the stated accounting base and the will or court instructions to the compensation discussion.

  1. Record the date of death, the county, and the exact proceeding or affidavit being considered.
  2. Classify each asset by title, beneficiary, trust, real-property status, and the value basis shown above.
  3. Open the official court material below and keep its form or schedule with the estate record.
  4. Do not distribute property until the route, creditor position, and required approvals are resolved.

Official material

Mississippi probate (estates of decedents) is heard in the Chancery Court (confirmed: '§ 25-7-9(2) ... the clerks of the chancery courts'). There is no statewide small-estate form or single statewide filing-fee schedule beyond the § 25-7-9 chancery-clerk fee; the affidavit and administration are filed with the county chancery clerk.

Source trail

Records used by this Mississippi map

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