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Mississippi court costs
Mississippi probate filing cost: $135
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 amount the statute states. Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch September 15, 2026.
What the statute charges
Every line below is computed from the statutory schedule quoted at the end of this page. These are court charges only. They are not an estimate of the total cost of settling an estate.
Chancery civil case including estate of a deceased (§ 25-7-9(2))
| Charge | $25,000 estate | $100,000 estate | $400,000 estate | $1,000,000 estate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chancery-clerk service fee (§ 25-7-9(2)) | $85 | $85 | $85 | $85 |
| Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund add-on (§ 25-7-9(3)(a)) | $10 | $10 | $10 | $10 |
| Judicial System Operation Fund add-on (§ 25-7-9(3)(b)) | $40 | $40 | $40 | $40 |
| Total from this schedule | $135 | $135 | $135 | $135 |
Not included in this total
- Publication
- Cost of process / service
The opening total for an estate case is $135.00: the $85.00 chancery-clerk service fee plus the two mandatory per-case § 25-7-9(3) assessments ($10.00 Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund and $40.00 Judicial System Operation Fund). Publication and process-service costs are additional.
Source: S.B. 2792, § 1, 2024 Miss. Laws (Reg. Sess.) (amending Miss. Code Ann. § 25-7-9(2)), Mississippi Legislature. Edition/currentness: July 1, 20 24.. Verified September 15, 2026.
What the $135 is made of
Mississippi’s $135 figure is not a single line. It is the sum of the separate charges below, each set by its own part of the Mississippi fee provision. Every one is a permanent, statewide charge on opening this kind of case, which is why they combine into one number a filer can check rather than take on trust.
- $85Chancery-clerk service fee, subsection (2)
- $10Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund, subsection (3)
- $40Judicial System Operation Fund, subsection (3)
Added together, these come to $135 — the figure this page headlines. If any component changed in the source, the sum would no longer match, and the build withholds the total rather than publishing a number whose parts no longer add up.
Costs no statute prices
These are the costs executors most often meet after the filing fee. None of them has a statewide statutory amount, so this site does not estimate them.
Bond
Premiums depend on the bond amount, the estate, and the applicant.
Copies and local charges
Certified copies, recording, inventory, accounting, and county surcharges are billed separately.
Professional fees
Attorney, accountant, and appraiser fees are negotiated or court-reviewed.
State-specific limits
- 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.
Use this as a starting point.
This is general information, not legal, tax, or financial advice, and it does not create an attorney-client relationship. Probate law varies by state and county and changes over time. Verify the current rule with the court or a licensed attorney in the relevant state.
How to verify the amount for this case
Name the proceeding before asking for a total. A small-estate affidavit, an application for letters, formal administration, a later inventory or account, and a certified copy can each carry a different charge. Asking only “what does probate cost?” invites an answer for the wrong filing.
- Identify the county where the proceeding will be filed.
- Identify the exact route or petition you expect to use.
- State the value basis the schedule uses; it is not always the gross estate value.
- Ask the clerk to separate the opening fee, mandatory surcharges, copies, publication, bond, and later filings.
- Record the schedule date or rule cited.
- Record whether payment is due at filing.
Keep that clerk quote with the estate record and compare it with the itemised statutory lines above. For the broader budget, use the probate cost-line guide; court filing is only one category.
Mississippi filing-cost map
Separate the Mississippi filing charge from the estate budget
The Mississippi filing record prices a proceeding, not every cost of settling an estate. This map connects the published amount or schedule to its value basis and identifies the local items that still need a clerk or court schedule.
| Question | Recorded Mississippi answer | Carry 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? | $75,000 | Use 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. |
Filing record
What the Mississippi cost record can answer
Chancery civil case including estate of a deceased (§ 25-7-9(2))
Basis: estate-value. Status: operative. The opening total for an estate case is $135.00: the $85.00 chancery-clerk service fee plus the two mandatory per-case § 25-7-9(3) assessments ($10.00 Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund and $40.00 Judicial System Operation Fund). Publication and process-service costs are additional.
- Chancery-clerk service fee (§ 25-7-9(2)) $85
- Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund add-on (§ 25-7-9(3)(a)) $10
- Judicial System Operation Fund add-on (§ 25-7-9(3)(b)) $40
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.
Compensation context
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.
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.
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 amount | Comparison to the Mississippi ceiling | What it does not decide |
|---|---|---|
| $56,300 | Below $75,000 | Title, liens, waiting period, appointment, or creditor duties |
| $93,800 | Above $75,000 | Whether another statutory route or court process applies |
Next evidence to collect
Name the proceeding and ask for mandatory surcharges, copies, publication, and later filings separately.
- Record the date of death, the county, and the exact proceeding or affidavit being considered.
- Classify each asset by title, beneficiary, trust, real-property status, and the value basis shown above.
- Open the official court material below and keep its form or schedule with the estate record.
- Do not distribute property until the route, creditor position, and required approvals are resolved.
Official material
- Mississippi Judiciary — Chancery Courts (probate jurisdiction)Mississippi Judiciary / Administrative Office of Courts
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
- S.B. 2850, § 7, 2020 Miss. Laws (Reg. Sess.) (amending Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-322)Mississippi Senate Bill 2850 (2020 Regular Session) — amending Miss. Code § 91-7-322 (small-estate affidavit); reviewed August 9, 2026
- S.B. 2792, § 1, 2024 Miss. Laws (Reg. Sess.) (amending Miss. Code Ann. § 25-7-9(2))Mississippi Senate Bill 2792 (2024 Regular Session) — amending Miss. Code § 25-7-9 (chancery-clerk fees); reviewed August 9, 2026
Filing-cost source
Each legal input links to the government source reviewed for this page. Source text can change; confirm the current rule before acting.
S.B. 2792, § 1, 2024 Miss. Laws (Reg. Sess.) (amending Miss. Code Ann. § 25-7-9(2))
Reviewed source note: The clerk or his successor in office shall per form a ll duties set forth witho ut additional compensation or f e e ............ $ 8 5.00
What this means: Enacted (as sent to Governor / signed). § 25-7-9(2) fixes a single chancery-clerk service fee of $85.00 for any chancery civil case that 'includes, but is not limited to ... estate of deceased', accruing on filing; § 25-7-9(3) adds, for every civil case filed, two mandatory per-case assessments - $10.00 to the Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund (§ 9-21-14) and $40.00 to the Judicial System Operation Fund (§ 9-21-45) - for a $135.00 total. Digit spacing ('$ 8 5.00', 'per form', 'f e e') is consistent in the source PDF.