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Every source behind the Mississippi guide

2 primary records, quoted verbatim and checked against 12 named presence or absence conditions that must pass against the live government text. Open the record, read the words the publishing body actually used, and confirm the current rule for yourself.

Last full re-fetch September 15, 2026

What each source establishes

The Mississippi guide rests on the source-backed rules this site can verify for the state: which simplified procedure exists and what it limits, what the court charges, how the person administering the estate may be paid, and any statutory creditor-deadline gaps the related guide names rather than guesses through.Every published rule below is quoted in the publisher’s own words rather than summarised.

Simplified-procedure rule

S.B. 2850, § 7, 2020 Miss. Laws (Reg. Sess.) (amending Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-322)

Mississippi Legislature · take effect and be in force from 197 and after July 1, 2020. · Verified August 9, 2026

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

What this means: Enacted (approved by the Governor). The Mississippi bill uses '* * *' to mark deleted text and restates § 91-7-322 in full. Threshold revised to $75,000.00; the affidavit is available at least thirty (30) days after death. Digit/word spacing artifacts ('Seventy - five', 'elaps ed') are consistent in the source PDF and match verbatim.

What was published from this source

  • MS S.B. 2850, § 7, 2020 Miss. Laws (Reg. Sess.) (amending Miss. Code Ann. § 91-7-322)

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • small-estate threshold $75,000
  • 30-day wait
  • section identity
  • currentness effective date
  • section identity

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Court cost rule

S.B. 2792, § 1, 2024 Miss. Laws (Reg. Sess.) (amending Miss. Code Ann. § 25-7-9(2))

Mississippi Legislature · July 1, 20 24. · Verified August 9, 2026

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.

What was published from this source

  • MS S.B. 2792, § 1, 2024 Miss. Laws (Reg. Sess.) (amending Miss. Code Ann. § 25-7-9(2))

Conditions checked against the live text

Each condition below must be found in the page as the publisher currently serves it. If any one of them stops matching, the build fails and the figure is withheld rather than published from memory.

  • chancery estate flat fee $85
  • estate of deceased in fee scope
  • section identity
  • currentness effective date
  • CECS Fund add-on $10 (§ 25-7-9(3)(a))
  • Judicial System Operation Fund add-on $40 (§ 25-7-9(3)(b))
  • section identity

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Mississippi provisions this site could not read

Not every state serves its own code. Where Mississippi did not, the attempt is recorded here instead of being covered over with a figure copied from a secondary summary. Each row names the authority that would settle the question and the page that failed to return it.

Authority soughtWhat is therefore not publishedTried on
Miss. Code Ann. tit. 91, ch. 7 (executors and administrators)No Mississippi commission figure is published here — representative pay2026-09-17
Miss. Code Ann. tit. 91, ch. 7 (probate of claims)Mississippi creditor deadlines: verified as unreadable, not guessed — creditor deadline2026-09-17

Mississippi source decision map

How the Mississippi records fit together

The source record is most useful when each citation has a job. This map links the Mississippi procedure, cost, compensation, and deadline records to the decision each one can and cannot answer.

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.

Decision boundary

What the Mississippi source set does not silently decide

The Mississippi records establish the rules listed above, but they do not turn a source citation into advice about title, family priority, tax filing, contested proceedings, or the exact clerk practice in every county. Those questions stay with the official court or a qualified adviser. The useful next step is to match the question to the citation rather than treating the longest quote as the answer to every estate problem.

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

Open the quoted record for the row you rely on and check the publisher's current text before filing.

  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

What Mississippi courts publish

The statutes on this page state the rule. These are the documents the court itself publishes. Every link is probed before release, and any link that stops resolving fails the build rather than staying on the page.

Limits on court 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.

Checking these Mississippi records against the publishers

Every citation above links to the body that publishes it, and every quoted sentence is reproduced exactly, so a text search on the publisher’s own page should land on it. Where the publisher’s current wording differs from what is recorded here, the publisher governs and this page is wrong; naming the citation and the language you see maps the difference onto a specific condition rather than a general complaint. The full procedure, including how a source qualifies in the first place and what disqualifies one, is set out once on the methodology page instead of being restated on each of the254 state records.

These records cover the cost and route questions this site answers for Mississippi. They do not cover intestate succession shares, spousal and family allowances, creditor priority, tax filing obligations, real-property transfer mechanics, or contested proceedings. Where an answer would require one of those, the site says so rather than estimating.

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