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MS Code § 93-14-402 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 14 - Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act|Article 4 - Registration and recognition of orders from other states|§ 93-14-402. Registration of protective orders

 If a conservator has been appointed in another state and a petition for a protective order is not pending in this state, the conservator appointed in the other state, after giving notice to the appointing court of an intent to register, may register the protective order in this state by filing as a foreign judgment in a court of this state, in any county in which property belonging to the protected person is located, certified copies of the order and letters of office and of any bond.
MS Code § 93-14-403 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 14 - Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act|Article 4 - Registration and recognition of orders from other states|§ 93-14-403. Effect of registration

 Upon registration of a guardianship or protective order from another state, the guardian or conservator may exercise in this state all powers authorized in the order of appointment except as prohibited under the laws of this state, including maintaining actions and proceedings in this state and, if the guardian or conservator is not a resident of this state, subject to any conditions imposed upon nonresident parties.   A court of this state may grant any relief available under this chapter and other law of this state to enforce a registered order.
MS Code § 93-14-501 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 14 - Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act|Article 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 93-14-501. Uniformity of application and construction

 In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
MS Code § 93-14-502 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 14 - Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act|Article 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 93-14-502. Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act

 This chapter modifies, limits, and supersedes the federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 USCS, Section 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit, or supersede Section 101(c) of that act, 15 USCS Section 7001(c), or authorize electronic delivery of any of the notices described in Section 103(b) of that act, 15 USCS Section 7003(b).
MS Code § 93-14-503 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 14 - Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act|Article 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 93-14-503.

 [Reserved for future codification purposes.]
MS Code § 93-14-504 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 14 - Uniform Adult Guardianship and Protective Proceedings Jurisdiction Act|Article 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions|§ 93-14-504. Transitional provision

 This chapter applies to guardianship and protective proceedings begun on or after July 1, 2014.   Articles 1, 3 and 4 and Sections 93-14-501 and 93-14-502 apply to proceedings begun before July 1, 2014, regardless of whether a guardianship or protective order has been issued.
MS Code § 93-17-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-1. Jurisdiction to alter names and legitimate offspring; legitimation by subsequent marriage

  The chancery court or the chancellor in vacation, of the county of the residence of the petitioners shall have jurisdiction upon the petition of any person to alter the names of such person, to make legitimate any living offspring of the petitioner not born in wedlock, and to decree said offspring to be an heir of the petitioner.   An illegitimate child shall become a legitimate child of the natural father if the natural father marries the natural mother and acknowledges the child.
MS Code § 93-17-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-5. Parties to adoption proceeding; consent of child

  There shall be made parties to the proceeding by process or by the filing therein of a consent to the adoption proposed in the petition, which consent shall be duly sworn to or acknowledged and executed only by the following persons, but not before seventy-two (72) hours after the birth of the child:   The parents, or parent, if only one (1) parent, though either be under the age of twenty-one (21) years;   If both parents are dead, then any two (2) adult kin of the child within the third degree computed according to the civil law; if one of such kin is in possession of the child, he or she shall join in the petition or be made a party to the suit; or   The guardian ad litem of an abandoned child, upon petition showing that the names of the parents of the child are unknown after diligent search and inquiry by the petitioners. In addition to the above, there shall be made parties to any proceeding to adopt a child, either by process or by the filing of a consent to the adoption proposed in the petition, the following:   Those persons having physical custody of the child, except persons who are acting as foster parents as a result of placement with them by the Department of Human Services of the State of Mississippi.   Any person to whom custody of the child may have been awarded by a court of competent jurisdiction of the State of Mississippi.   The agent of the county Department of Human Services of the State of Mississippi that has placed a child in foster care, either by agreement or by court order.       The consent may also be executed and filed by the duly authorized officer or representative of a home to whose care the child has been delivered. The child shall join the petition by the child's next friend.   If consent is not filed, process shall be had upon the parties as provided by law for process in person or by publication, if they are nonresidents of the state or are not found therein after diligent search and inquiry, the court or chancellor in vacation may fix a date in termtime or in vacation to which process may be returnable and shall have power to proceed in termtime or vacation. In any event, if the child is more than fourteen (14) years of age, a consent to the adoption, sworn to or acknowledged by the child, shall also be required or personal service of process shall be had upon the child in the same manner and in the same effect as if the child were an adult.
MS Code § 93-17-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-7. Parental objection; causes for termination of parental rights

  No infant shall be adopted to any person if a parent whose parental rights have not been terminated under the Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law, after having been summoned, shall appear and object thereto before the making of a decree for adoption. A parent shall not be summoned in the adoption proceedings nor have the right to object thereto if the parental rights of the parent have been terminated by the procedure set forth in the Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law (Section 93-15-101 et seq.), and the termination shall be res judicata on the question of parental abandonment or unfitness in the adoption proceedings.   No person, whether claiming to be the parent of the child or not, has standing to object to the adoption if:   A final judgment for adoption that comports with all applicable state and federal laws has been entered by a court; and   Notice to the parties of the action, whether known or unknown, has been made in compliance with Section 93-17-5.
MS Code § 93-17-12 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-12. Authority of court to impose fee for court-ordered home study relating to child custody matters and in all adoptions

 In any child custody matter hereafter filed in any chancery or county court in which temporary or permanent custody has already been placed with a parent or guardian and in all adoptions, the court shall impose a fee for any court-ordered home study performed by the Department of Human Services or any other entity. The fee shall be assessed upon either party or upon both parties in the court's discretion. The minimum fee imposed shall be not less than Three Hundred Fifty Dollars ($350.00) for each household on which a home study is performed. The fee shall be paid directly to the Mississippi Department of Human Services prior to the home study being conducted by the department or to the entity if the study is performed by another entity. The judge may order the fee be paid by one or both of the parents or guardian. If the court determines that both parents or the guardian are unable to pay the fee, the judge shall waive the fee and the cost of the home study shall be defrayed by the Department of Human Services.
MS Code § 93-17-14 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-14. Home study in international adoptions valid for 24 months

 In the case of international adoptions, a home study of the prospective adopting parents shall be valid for a period of twenty-four (24) months from the date of completion.
MS Code § 93-17-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-15. Limitation on action to set aside final decree

 No action shall be brought to set aside any final decree of adoption, whether granted upon consent or personal process or on process by publication, except within six (6) months of the entry thereof.
MS Code § 93-17-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-17. Grounds for setting aside proceedings limited

 For all purposes of this chapter, the chancery court shall be a court of general jurisdiction and it is declared to be the public policy of the state that no adoption proceedings shall be permitted to be set aside except for jurisdictional defects and for failure to file and prosecute the same under the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 93-17-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-19. Costs

 All costs of the proceeding shall be taxed in the manner that the court may direct, including a reasonable fee as determined, approved, and allowed by the court to be paid for each investigation that may be authorized or required by the chancellor, other than for an investigation and report by a public authority or agency, in which event no such fee shall be allowed.
MS Code § 93-17-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-23. Re-adoption

 Any child heretofore adopted under the laws of the State of Mississippi and any child who may have been adopted under the provisions of this chapter, may be re-adopted under the provisions hereof. If any such prior adoption is valid, and the re-adoption proceedings be instituted by the persons who previously adopted the child, there shall be no waiting period and no investigation and no interlocutory decree, and a final decree of adoption may be granted by the court ex parte if it be to the best interest of the child that it be re-adopted. If the re-adoption be by any person who was not a petitioner in the prior adoption or adoptions, then in such re-adoption proceedings, the persons who previously adopted the child shall be substituted in the place and stead of the natural parent and the same procedure shall be followed as if such child sought to be re-adopted was being for the first time adopted under the provisions of this chapter.
MS Code § 93-17-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-25. Proceedings and records confidential; use in court or administrative proceedings

 All proceedings under this chapter shall be confidential and shall be held in closed court without admittance of any person other than the interested parties, except upon order of the court. All pleadings, reports, files and records pertaining to adopting proceedings shall be confidential and shall not be public records and shall be withheld from inspection or examination by any person, except upon order of the court in which the proceeding was had on good cause shown.   Upon motion of any interested person, the files of adoption proceedings, heretofore had may be placed in the confidential files upon order of the court or chancellor and shall be subject to the provisions of this chapter.   Provided, however, that notwithstanding the confidential nature of said proceedings, said record shall be available for use in any court or administrative proceedings under a subpoena duces tecum addressed to the custodian of said records and portions of such record may be released pursuant to Sections 93-17-201 through 93-17-223.
MS Code § 93-17-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-27. References to marital status of natural parents prohibited

 No reference shall be required to be made to the marital status of the natural parents of the child nor shall any allegation or recital be made therein that the child was born out of wedlock in any petition filed or decree entered upon consent.
MS Code § 93-17-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-29. References to parents and child in docket entries and decrees

 The docket entries and decrees spread upon the minutes of the court shall not refer to names of the natural parent or parents nor to the original name of the child. In the decree reference to the child shall be by the name to be conferred upon it by the court rather than by its original name if the name of the child is to be changed. The style of the cause and the docket entry thereof shall recite only the names of the petitioners and that the case is for the adoption of a child described in the petition.
MS Code § 93-17-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 1 - In General|§ 93-17-31. Clerks to keep separate index, docket and minute books

 The several chancery clerks shall obtain and keep a separate, confidential index showing the true name of the child adopted, the true name of its natural parent, or parents, if known, and the true name of the persons adopting the child and the date of the decree of adoption, and the name under which the child was adopted, or the name given the child by the adoption proceedings and a cross index shall be kept showing the said true name and the name given the child in the adoption decree, and which index shall be subject to the provisions of Section 93-17-25 as to same being kept in confidence and such index shall not be examined by any person, except officers of the court including attorneys, except upon order of the court, on good cause shown, in which the proceeding was had. The reports shall be filed only if so ordered by the chancellor. The several chancery clerks shall obtain and keep a separate docket and minute book of convenient size which shall be subject to provisions of Sections 93-17-25 through 93-17-31 and in which, from July 1, 1955, all entries concerning adoption shall be made.
MS Code § 93-17-51 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 3 - Adoption Supplemental Benefits Law|§ 93-17-51. Short title

 Sections 93-17-51 through 93-17-67 shall be known and may be cited as the "Mississippi Adoption Supplemental Benefits Law of 1979."
MS Code § 93-17-53 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 3 - Adoption Supplemental Benefits Law|§ 93-17-53. Purpose

 The purpose of Sections 93-17-51 through 93-17-67 is to supplement the Mississippi adoption law by making possible through public supplemental benefits the most appropriate adoption of each child certified by the state department of public welfare as requiring a supplemental benefit to assure adoption.
MS Code § 93-17-55 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 3 - Adoption Supplemental Benefits Law|§ 93-17-55. Definitions

 As used in Sections 93-17-51 through 93-17-67, the word "child" shall mean a minor as defined by Mississippi law who is:   A dependent of a public or voluntary licensed child-placing agency, eligible for Supplemental Security Income prior to the finalization of the adoption, one (1) for whom supplemental benefits were paid pursuant to the aforementioned sections in a previous adoption that was dissolved or wherein the adoptive parents died, or is the child of a minor parent in foster care for whom the board payment was increased on account of the birth;   Legally eligible for adoption; and   In special circumstances whether:   Because he has established significant emotional ties with prospective adoptive parents while in their care as a foster child and it is deemed in the best interest of the child by the agency to be adopted by the foster parents, or   Because he is not likely to be adopted because of one or more of the following special needs: 1. severe physical or mental disability, 2. severe emotional disturbance, 3. recognized high risk of physical or mental disease, 4. older than two (2) years of age, 5. a sibling group to be adopted together, or 6. any combination of these special needs.
MS Code § 93-17-57 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 3 - Adoption Supplemental Benefits Law|§ 93-17-57. Supplemental benefits program; funding

 The state department of public welfare shall establish and administer an on-going program of supplemental benefits for adoption. Supplemental benefits and services for children under this program shall be provided out of such funds as may be appropriated to the Mississippi Medicaid Commission for the medical services for children in foster care, or made available to the department from other sources.
MS Code § 93-17-59 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 3 - Adoption Supplemental Benefits Law|§ 93-17-59. Eligibility

 Any child meeting criteria specified in Section 93-17-55 for whom the state department of public welfare feels supplemental benefits are necessary to improve opportunities for adoption will be eligible for the program. The adoption agency shall document that reasonable efforts have been made to place the child in adoption without supplemental benefits through the use of adoption resource exchanges, recruitment and referral to appropriate specialized adoption agencies.
MS Code § 93-17-61 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 3 - Adoption Supplemental Benefits Law|§ 93-17-61. Agreement with Department of Human Services; commencement of benefits; duration; certification of need

  When parents are found and approved for adoption of a child certified as eligible for supplemental benefits, and before the final decree of adoption is issued, there shall be executed a written agreement between the family entering into the adoption and the Department of Human Services. In individual cases, supplemental benefits may commence with the adoptive placement or at the appropriate time after the adoption decree and will vary with the needs of the child as well as the availability of other resources to meet the child's needs. The supplemental benefits may be for special services only or for money payments as allowed under Section 43-13-115, Mississippi Code of 1972, and either for a limited period, for a long-term not exceeding the child's eighteenth birthday, or for any combination of the foregoing. The amount of the time-limited, long-term supplemental benefits may in no case exceed that which would be currently allowable for such child under the Mississippi Medicaid Law.   When supplemental benefits last for more than one (1) year, the adoptive parents shall present an annual written certification that the child remains under the parents' care and that the child's need for supplemental benefits continues. Based on investigation by the agency and available funds, the agency may approve continued supplemental benefits. These benefits shall be extended so long as the parents remain legally responsible for and are providing support for the child. The agency shall continue paying benefits until a child reaches twenty-one (21) years of age if the child meets the criteria stated in Section 93-17-67(1) for continuation of Medicaid coverage.   A child who is a resident of Mississippi when eligibility for supplemental benefits is certified shall remain eligible and receive supplemental benefits, if necessary for adoption, regardless of the domicile or residence of the adopting parents at the time of application for adoption, placement, legal decree of adoption or thereafter.
MS Code § 93-17-63 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 3 - Adoption Supplemental Benefits Law|§ 93-17-63. Confidentiality

 All records regarding such adoption shall be confidential. Anyone violating or releasing information of a confidential nature, as contemplated by Sections 93-17-51 through 93-17-67 without the approval of the court with jurisdiction or the State Department of Public Welfare unless such release is made pursuant to Sections 93-17-201 through 93-17-223 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine not exceeding One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) or imprisonment of six (6) months, or both.
MS Code § 93-17-65 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 17 - Adoption, Change of Name, and Legitimation of Children|Article 3 - Adoption Supplemental Benefits Law|§ 93-17-65. Promulgation of rules and regulations

 The state department of public welfare shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of Sections 93-17-51 through 93-17-67.