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MS Code § 89-23-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 23 - Mississippi Uniform Environmental Covenants Act|§ 89-23-27. Severability

 If any provision of this chapter or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the invalidity does not affect other provisions or applications of this chapter which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this end the provisions of this chapter are severable.
MS Code § 89-25-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 25 - Mississippi Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities|§ 89-25-1. Short title

 This chapter shall be known and may be referred to as the "Mississippi Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities."
MS Code § 89-25-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 25 - Mississippi Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities|§ 89-25-3. Statutory rule against perpetuities

  A nonvested property interest is invalid unless:   When the interest is created, it is certain to vest or terminate no later than twenty-one (21) years after the death of an individual then alive; or   The interest either vests or terminates within ninety (90) years after its creation.     A general power of appointment not presently exercisable because of a condition precedent is invalid unless:   When the power is created, the condition precedent is certain to be satisfied or becomes impossible to satisfy no later than twenty-one (21) years after the death of an individual then alive; or   The condition precedent either is satisfied or becomes impossible to satisfy within ninety (90) years after its creation.     A nongeneral power of appointment or a general testamentary power of appointment is invalid unless:   When the power is created, it is certain to be irrevocably exercised or otherwise to terminate no later than twenty-one (21) years after the death of an individual then alive; or   The power is irrevocably exercised or otherwise terminates within ninety (90) years after its creation.     In determining whether a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment is valid under subsection (1) (a), (2) (a), or (3) (a) of this section, the possibility that a child will be born to an individual after the individual's death is disregarded.   If, in measuring a period from the creation of a trust or other property arrangement, language in a governing instrument seeks to disallow the vesting or termination of any interest or trust beyond, seeks to postpone the vesting or termination of any interest or trust until, or seeks to operate in effect in any similar fashion upon, the later of:   The expiration of a period of time not exceeding twenty-one (21) years after the death of the survivor of specified lives in being at the creation of the trust or other property arrangement; or   The expiration of a period of time that exceeds or might exceed twenty-one (21) years after the death of the survivor of lives in being at the creation of the trust or other property arrangement;  that language is inoperative to the extent that it produces a period of time that exceeds twenty-one (21) years after the death of the survivor of the specified lives.
MS Code § 89-25-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 25 - Mississippi Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities|§ 89-25-5. When nonvested property interest or power of appointment is created

  Except as provided in subsections (2), (3) and (4) of this section and in Section 89-25-11(1), the time of creation of a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment is determined under general principles of property law.   For purposes of this chapter, if there is a person who alone can exercise a power created by a governing instrument to become the unqualified beneficial owner of:   A nonvested property interest; or   A property interest subject to a power of appointment described in Section 89-25-3(2) or (3), the nonvested property interest or power of appointment is created when the power to become the unqualified beneficial owner terminates.     For purposes of this chapter, a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment arising from a transfer of property to a previously funded trust or other existing property arrangement is created when the nonvested property interest or power of appointment in the original contribution was created.   For purposes of this chapter, if a nongeneral or testamentary power of appointment is exercised to create another nongeneral or testamentary power of appointment, every nonvested property interest or power of appointment created through the exercise of the other nongeneral or testamentary power of appointment is considered to have been created at the time of the creation of the first nongeneral or testamentary power of appointment.
MS Code § 89-25-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 25 - Mississippi Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities|§ 89-25-7. Reformation

 Upon petition of an interested person, a court shall reform a disposition in the manner that most closely approximates the transferor's manifested plan of distribution and is within the ninety (90) years allowed by Section 89-25-3(1)(b), (2)(b) or (3)(b) or the three hundred sixty (360) years allowed in Section 89-25-9(h), if:   A nonvested property interest or a power of appointment becomes invalid under Section 89-25-3;   A class gift is not invalid, but might become invalid under Section 89-25-3, and the time has arrived when the share of any class member is to take effect in possession or enjoyment;   A nonvested property interest that is not validated by Section 89-25-3(1)(a) can vest but not within ninety (90) years after its creation; or   In the case of a trust which otherwise meets the requirements of Section 89-25-9(h), all beneficial interests in the trust can vest or the trust can terminate but not within three hundred sixty (360) years.
MS Code § 89-25-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 25 - Mississippi Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities|§ 89-25-9. Exclusions from the statutory rule against perpetuities

 Section 89-25-3 shall not apply to:   A nonvested property interest or a power of appointment arising out of a nondonative transfer, except a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment arising out of:   A premarital or postmarital agreement;   A separation or divorce settlement;   A spouse's election;   A similar arrangement arising out of a prospective, existing, or previous marital relationship between the parties;   A contract to make or not to revoke a will or trust;   A contract to exercise or not to exercise a power of appointment;   A transfer in satisfaction of a duty of support; or   A reciprocal transfer;   A fiduciary's power relating to the administration or management of assets, including the power of a fiduciary to sell, lease, or mortgage property, and the power of a fiduciary to determine principal and income;   A power to appoint a fiduciary;   A discretionary power of a trustee to distribute principal before termination of a trust to a beneficiary having an indefeasibly vested interest in the income and principal;   A nonvested property interest held by a charity, government, or governmental agency or subdivision, if the nonvested property interest is preceded by an interest held by another charity, government, or governmental agency or subdivision;   A nonvested property interest in or a power of appointment with respect to a trust or other property arrangement forming part of a pension, profit-sharing, stock bonus, health, disability, death benefit, income deferral, or other current or deferred benefit plan for one or more employees, independent contractors, or their beneficiaries or spouses, to which contributions are made for the purpose of distributing to or for the benefit of the participants or their beneficiaries or spouses the property, income, or principal in the trust or other property arrangement, except a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment that is created by an election of a participant or a beneficiary or spouse;   A property interest, power of appointment, or arrangement that was not subject to the common-law rule against perpetuities or is excluded by another statute of this state; or   A trust:   That is governed by the laws of this state;   That grants to the trustee the power to sell trust property; and   Which, pursuant to the terms of the trust instrument, does not exceed:   1. Three hundred sixty (360) years as to personal property; and   2. One hundred ten (110) years as to real property.
MS Code § 89-25-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 25 - Mississippi Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities|§ 89-25-11. Prospective application

  Except as provided by subsection (2) of this section, this chapter applies to a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment that is created on or after July 1, 2015. For purposes of this section, a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment created by the exercise of a power of appointment is created when the power is irrevocably exercised or when a revocable exercise becomes irrevocable.   If a nonvested property interest or a power of appointment was created before July 1, 2015 and is determined in a judicial proceeding, commenced on or after July 1, 2015, to violate this state's rule against perpetuities as that rule existed before July 1, 2015, a court upon the petition of an interested person may reform the disposition in the manner that most closely approximates the transferor's manifested plan of distribution and is within the limits of the rule against perpetuities applicable when the nonvested property interest or power of appointment was created.
MS Code § 89-25-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 25 - Mississippi Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities|§ 89-25-13. Uniformity

 This chapter shall be applied and construed to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law with respect to the subject of this chapter among states enacting it.
MS Code § 89-25-15 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 89 - Real and Personal Property|Chapter 25 - Mississippi Uniform Statutory Rule Against Perpetuities|§ 89-25-15. Supersession

 This chapter supersedes the rule of the common law known as the rule against perpetuities.
MS Code § 91-1-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-1. What law to govern

 All personal property situated in this state shall descend and be distributed according to the laws of this state regulating the descent and distribution of such property, regardless of all marital rights which may have accrued in other states, and notwithstanding the domicile of the deceased may have been in another state, and whether the heirs or persons entitled to distribution be in this state or not. The widow of such deceased person shall take her share in the personal estate according to the laws of this state.
MS Code § 91-1-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-3. Descent of land

 When any person shall die seized of any estate of inheritance in lands, tenements, and hereditaments not devised, the same shall descend to his or her children, and their descendants, in equal parts, the descendants of the deceased child or grandchild to take the share of the deceased parent in equal parts among them. When there shall not be a child or children of the intestate nor descendants of such children, then to the brothers and sisters and father and mother of the intestate and the descendants of such brothers and sisters in equal parts, the descendants of a sister or brother of the intestate to have in equal parts among them their deceased parent's share. If there shall not be a child or children of the intestate, or descendants of such children, or brothers or sisters, or descendants of them, or father or mother, then such estate shall descend, in equal parts, to the grandparents and uncles and aunts, if any there be; otherwise, such estate shall descend in equal parts to the next of kin of the intestate in equal degree, computing by the rules of the civil law. There shall not be any representation among collaterals, except among the descendants of the brothers and sisters of the intestate.
MS Code § 91-1-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-5. Half-bloods

 There shall not be, in any case, a distinction between the kindred of the whole and half-blood, except that the kindred of the whole-blood, in equal degree, shall be preferred to the kindred of the half-blood in the same degree.
MS Code § 91-1-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-7. Descent of property as between husband and wife

 If a husband die intestate and do not leave children or descendants of children, his widow shall be entitled to his entire estate, real and personal, in fee simple, after payment of his debts; but where the deceased husband shall leave a child or children by that or a former marriage, or descendants of such child or children, his widow shall have a child's part of his estate, in either case in fee simple. If a married woman die owning any real or personal estate not disposed of, it shall descend to her husband and her children or their descendants if she have any surviving her, either by a former husband or by the surviving husband, in equal parts, according to the rules of descent. If she have children and there also be descendants of other children who have died before the mother, the descendants shall inherit the share to which the parent would have been entitled if living, as coheirs with the surviving children. If she have no children or descendants of them, then the husband shall inherit all of her property.
MS Code § 91-1-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-9. Descent of trust estates

 If any cestui que trust shall die leaving a trust in lands, tenements, or hereditaments in fee simple or in freehold, the trust shall descend as real estate if not disposed of by will, or if not inconsistent with the declaration of the trust.
MS Code § 91-1-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-11. Personal estate to descend as real estate

 When any person shall die possessed of goods and chattels or personal estate not bequeathed, the same shall descend to and be distributed among his or her heirs in the same manner that real estate not devised descends.
MS Code § 91-1-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-13. Estate of testator not disposed of by will to descend

 All estate, real and personal, not devised or bequeathed in the last will and testament of any person shall descend and be distributed in the same manner as the estate of an intestate; and the executor or administrator shall administer the same accordingly.
MS Code § 91-1-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-17. Advancement to be brought into hotchpot

 When any of the children of a person dying intestate, or their descendants, shall have received from such intestate, in his lifetime, any real or personal estate by way of advancement, and shall choose to come into the partition and distribution of the estate with the other parceners and distributees, such advancement, both of real and personal estate, shall be brought into hotchpot with the whole estate, real and personal, descended. Such party bringing such advancement into hotchpot shall thereupon be entitled to his or her proper portion of the whole estate descended, both real and personal; but such advancement shall be valued according to its value at the time said distributee received it.
MS Code § 91-1-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-19. Descent of exempt property

 The property, real and personal, exempted by law from sale under execution or attachment shall, on the death of the husband or wife owning it, descend to the survivor of them and the children and grandchildren of the decedent, as tenants in common, grandchildren inheriting their deceased parent's share; and if there be no children or grandchildren of the decedent, to the surviving wife or husband; and if there be no such survivor, to the children and grandchildren of the deceased owner. Where the surviving husband or wife shall own a place of residence equal in value to the homestead of the decedent, and the deceased husband or wife have no surviving children or grandchildren of the last marriage but have children or grandchildren of a former marriage, the homestead of such decedent shall not descend to the surviving husband or wife, but shall descend to the surviving children and grandchildren of the decedent by such former marriage, as other property.
MS Code § 91-1-21 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-21. Exempt property liable for debt of decedent

 If there shall not be either a surviving wife or husband or children or grandchildren of the decedent, the exempt property shall be liable for the debts of the decedent and be disposed of in all respects as other property of such decedent.
MS Code § 91-1-23 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-23. Exempt property not to be partitioned in certain cases

 Where a decedent leaves a widow to whom, with others, his exempt property, real and personal, descends, the same shall not be subject to partition or sale for partition during her widowhood as long as it is occupied or used by the widow, unless she consent. Likewise, where a decedent leaves a widower to whom, with others, her exempt property, real and personal, descends, the same shall not be subject to partition or sale for partition during the period of his being a widower as long as it is occupied or used by the widower, unless he consent.
MS Code § 91-1-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-25. Person who has killed another not to inherit from him

 If any person wilfully cause or procure the death of another in any way, he shall not inherit the property, real or personal, of such other; but the same shall descend as if the person so causing or procuring the death had predeceased the person whose death he perpetrated.
MS Code § 91-1-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-27. How title to property acquired by descent may be made

 In all cases in which persons have died, or may hereafter die, wholly or partially intestate, having property, real or personal, any heir at law of such deceased person, or any one interested in any of the property as to which he shall have died intestate, may petition the chancery court of the county in which said deceased had his mansion house or principal place or residence, or in which any part of his real estate may be situated, in case he was a nonresident, setting forth the fact that said person died wholly or partially intestate, possessed of real or personal property in the State of Mississippi, the names of the heirs at law or next of kin, and praying that the person named in said petition be recognized and decreed to be the heir at law of said deceased.
MS Code § 91-1-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-29. Heirs to be cited to appear

 All the heirs at law and next of kin of said deceased who are not made parties plaintiff to the action shall be cited to appear and answer the same. And in addition thereto a summons by publication shall be made addressed to "The heirs at law of_______________ , Deceased," and shall be published as other publications to absent or unknown defendants, and the cause shall be proceeded with as other causes in chancery, and upon satisfactory evidence as to death of said person and as to the fact that the parties to said suit are his sole heirs at law, the court shall enter a judgment that the persons so described be recognized as the heirs at law of such a decedent, and as such be placed in possession of his estate. And said judgment shall be evidence in all the courts of law and equity in this state that the persons therein named are the sole heirs at law of the person therein described as their ancestor.
MS Code § 91-1-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 1 - Descent and Distribution|§ 91-1-31. Judgment as to descent of property cannot be assailed collaterally except for fraud

 A judgment so rendered as provided in Section 91-1-29 shall not be assailed collaterally, except for fraud, and shall be binding and conclusive upon all persons cited to appear from the date of its rendition, and upon all persons whomsoever from and after the expiration of two (2) years from the date on which the same was rendered, saving to minors and persons of unsound mind, the right to re-open said cause within one (1) year after attaining majority or being restored to sanity. A judgment so rendered shall thereupon be filed, recorded and indexed by the chancery clerk of the county where rendered in the general deed records of said county, just as if it were a deed of conveyance from said decedent to his heirs at law. And a certified copy of such judgment may likewise be filed, recorded and indexed in any other county where the decedent owned land at the date of his death.
MS Code § 91-3-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 3 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Law|§ 91-3-1. How chapter cited

 This chapter may be cited as the Uniform Simultaneous Death Law.
MS Code § 91-3-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 3 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Law|§ 91-3-3. Construction

 This chapter shall be so construed and interpreted as to effectuate its general purpose to make uniform the law in those states which enact the Uniform Simultaneous Death Law.
MS Code § 91-3-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 3 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Law|§ 91-3-5. Disposition of property in absence of evidence of survivorship

 Where the title to property or the devolution thereof depends upon priority of death and there is no sufficient evidence that the persons have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property of each person shall be disposed of as if he had survived, except as provided otherwise in this chapter.
MS Code § 91-3-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 3 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Law|§ 91-3-7. Beneficiaries of another person's disposition of property

 Where two (2) or more beneficiaries are designated to take successively by reason of survivorship under another person's disposition of property and there is no sufficient evidence that these beneficiaries have died otherwise than simultaneously, the property thus disposed of shall be divided into as many equal portions as there are successive beneficiaries and these portions shall be distributed respectively to those who would have taken in the event that each designated beneficiary had survived.
MS Code § 91-3-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 91 - Trusts and Estates|Chapter 3 - Uniform Simultaneous Death Law|§ 91-3-9. Joint tenants or tenants by the entirety

 Where there is no sufficient evidence that two (2) joint tenants have died otherwise than simultaneously the property so held shall be distributed one half (1/2) as if one had survived and one half (1/2) as if the other had survived. If there are more than two (2) joint tenants and all of them have so died the property thus distributed shall be in the proportion that one bears to the whole number of joint tenants.