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Mississippi probate timeline: the 30-day wait and creditor deadlines
The simplified route starts 30 days after death. Source: S.B. 2850, § 7, 2020 Miss. Laws (Reg. Sess.) (amending Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-322).
Mississippi creditor deadlines are not verified to this site’s standard, so none is published below.
Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Sources rechecked October 3, 2026. This page last revised .
The one date this page can source
The small-estate affidavit for collection of personal property (miss. code ann. § 91-7-322) route requires 30 days to elapse from the date of death. This is a precondition: the affidavit or petition cannot be presented before it runs, regardless of how straightforward the estate is.
Source: 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)(Mississippi Legislature; take effect and be in force from 197 and after July 1, 2020.).
The section’s own words
does not exceed * * * Seventy - five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00) ; (b) That at least thirty (30) days have elaps ed since the death of the decedent
Creditor deadlines
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 bar on claims not probated in time. No Mississippi bill enacted from 2008 through 2025 amended or restated either section, and the codified sections are published only through LexisNexis, so no deadline is given here rather than a guessed one.
Read this: Miss. Code Ann. §§ 91-7-145, 91-7-147, 91-7-151 via LexisNexis-hosted Mississippi Code.. The probate clerk in the county of filing can also state the local practice, which sometimes differs from the bare statutory minimum.
Mississippi creditor deadlines: not confirmed, so not guessed
Mississippi’s notice-to-creditors and claim-registration provisions sit in Title 91, Chapter 7 of the Mississippi Code Annotated. As of the date below, this site had not confirmed their current text from the state’s free public copy or from another official copy.
Mississippi’s procedure is distinctive enough that a borrowed summary is a particularly poor substitute: the state uses a probate of claims registered with the chancery clerk, which is a different mechanism from the presentment-to-the-representative model used in the uniform-code states covered elsewhere on this site.
Because the mechanism differs, so does what a missed deadline costs. That is exactly the kind of detail a secondary summary flattens, and it is why no Mississippi period is quoted on this page.
The chancery clerk in the county of administration holds the register and can state the current statutory period and the date the estate’s own notice started it.
Authority that would settle this: Miss. Code Ann. tit. 91, ch. 7 (probate of claims). 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.
General sequence: first week, how long probate takes.
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