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MS Code § 93-5-25 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 5 - Divorce and Alimony|§ 93-5-25. Effect of judgment of divorce

 The judgment of divorce shall not render illegitimate the children begotten between the parties during lawful marriage; but if the judgment be rendered because one (1) of the parties was married to another at the time of the marriage or pretended marriage between the parties, it shall adjudge the marriage between the parties to have been invalid and void from the beginning and the issue thereof shall be illegitimate and subject to the disabilities of illegitimate children. And the judgment may provide, in the discretion of the court, that a party against whom a divorce is granted, because of adultery, shall not be at liberty to marry again; in which case such party shall remain in law as a married person. Provided, however, that after one (1) year, the court may remove the disability and permit the person to marry again, on petition and satisfactory evidence of reformation, or for good cause shown, on the part of the party so barred from remarriage; but the actions of the court under the foregoing proviso shall not be construed as affecting any judgment of divorce granted in any case where the discretion of the chancellor has been exercised in barring one (1) party from remarriage on account of adultery.
MS Code § 93-5-26 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 5 - Divorce and Alimony|§ 93-5-26. Noncustodial parent's right of access to records and information pertaining to minor children

 Notwithstanding any other provisions of law, except those provisions protecting the confidentiality of adoption records and except for cases in which parental rights have been legally terminated, access to records and information pertaining to a minor child, including but not limited to medical, dental and school records, shall not be denied to a parent because the parent is not the child's custodial parent if such parent's parental rights have not been terminated by adoption or by a termination of parental rights proceeding.
MS Code § 93-5-27 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 5 - Divorce and Alimony|§ 93-5-27. Marital rights cease with judgment of divorce

 In all cases of divorce from the bonds of matrimony, the marital rights shall cease with the judgment.
MS Code § 93-5-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 5 - Divorce and Alimony|§ 93-5-29. Divorced persons not to cohabit

 If any person who shall be divorced on account of their being within the degrees prohibited by law, shall afterwards cohabit, they shall be liable to the pains and penalties provided by law against incest. If any persons who shall be divorced on account of a prior marriage, adultery, or other cause, shall afterwards cohabit, they shall be liable to all the pains provided by law against adultery.
MS Code § 93-5-31 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 5 - Divorce and Alimony|§ 93-5-31. Judgment of divorce may be revoked

 The judgment of divorce from the bonds of matrimony may be revoked at any time by the court which granted it, under such regulations and restrictions as it may deem proper to impose, upon the joint application of the parties, and upon the production of satisfactory evidence of their reconciliation.
MS Code § 93-5-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 5 - Divorce and Alimony|§ 93-5-33. Statistical requirements

 All complaints for divorce shall name the parties to the suit, when married, and the number and names of the living minor children born of the marriage. It shall be the duty of each chancery clerk in the state to make a report of each divorce granted in his county; and on forms furnished by the State Board of Health, to show the following information, as correctly as he is able to make such report: Names of parties; when married; state of residence; children under eighteen (18) in this family as of date couple last resided in same household; custody of children; and the page and book in which judgment is recorded. He shall certify to the said report and affix thereunto his seal, and he shall forward it to the State Board of Health within ten (10) days after adjournment of each term of court in his county. For his services in preparing and forwarding said records to the State Board of Health he shall receive the sum of Thirty-five Cents (35¢) for each completed record, to be taxed to costs in each divorce case as other fees are taxed.
MS Code § 93-7-1 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 7 - Annulment of Marriage|§ 93-7-1. Annulment of void marriages

 All bigamous or incestuous marriages are void, and a declaration of nullity may be obtained at the suit of either party.
MS Code § 93-7-3 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 7 - Annulment of Marriage|§ 93-7-3. Causes for annulment of marriages

 A marriage may be annulled for any one (1) of the following causes existing at the time of the marriage ceremony:   Incurable impotency.   Adjudicated mental illness or incompetence of either or both parties. Action of a spouse who has been adjudicated mentally ill or incompetent may be brought by guardian, or in the absence of a guardian, by next friend, provided that the suit is brought within six (6) months after marriage.   Failure to comply with the provisions of Sections 93-1-5 through 93-1-9 when any marriage affected by that failure has not been followed by cohabitation.   Or, in the absence of ratification:   When either of the parties to a marriage is incapable, from want of age or understanding, of consenting to any marriage, or is incapable from physical causes of entering into the marriage state, or where the consent of either party has been obtained by force or fraud, the marriage shall be void from the time its nullity is declared by a court of competent jurisdiction.   Pregnancy of the wife by another person, if the husband did not know of the pregnancy.   Suits for annulment under paragraphs (d) and (e) shall be brought within six (6) months after the ground for annulment is or should be discovered, and not thereafter.   The causes for annulment of marriage set forth in this section are intended to be new remedies and shall in no way affect the causes for divorce declared elsewhere to be the law of the State of Mississippi as they presently exist or as they may from time to time be amended.
MS Code § 93-7-5 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 7 - Annulment of Marriage|§ 93-7-5. Legitimation of issue

 Except for incestuous marriages, the issue of the parties to a void marriage conceived subsequent to the date thereof is legitimate, whether the marriage be declared void because of a prior existing marriage, or is annulled for some other cause.
MS Code § 93-7-7 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 7 - Annulment of Marriage|§ 93-7-7. Custody of children

 When an annulment shall be adjudged or a marriage declared void, the chancery court may, in its discretion, having regard to the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case, as may seem equitable and just, make all orders touching the care, custody, and maintenance of the children of the marriage; and the court may, afterwards, on complaint, change the judgment and make from time to time such new judgment as the case may require.
MS Code § 93-7-9 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 7 - Annulment of Marriage|§ 93-7-9. Filing of complaint

 The complaint for annulment shall be filed in the county where the defendant resides, or in the county where the marriage license was issued, or in the county where the plaintiff resides, if the defendant be a nonresident of this state.
MS Code § 93-7-11 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 7 - Annulment of Marriage|§ 93-7-11. Jurisdiction; pleading; process

 The chancery courts of the State of Mississippi shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine all suits for annulment and all suits for annulment shall be tried in term time or vacation, and the same rules of pleading and procedure shall apply as in divorce cases, and the laws of process now in force in divorce cases in this state shall apply in all suits for annulment.
MS Code § 93-7-13 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 7 - Annulment of Marriage|§ 93-7-13. Duty of court to make report

 It shall be the duty of the chancery clerk to make a report of each annulment granted in his county to the state board of health on forms furnished by the state board of health in the same manner as now required by law for reporting divorces.
MS Code § 93-12-17 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 12 - Enforcement of Child Support Orders from Foreign Jurisdictions|§ 93-12-17. Voluntary order for withholding

 Any person who is the obligor in a support order of another jurisdiction may obtain a voluntary order of withholding by filing with the court a request for such withholding and a certified copy of the support order of a sister state. The court shall issue an order for withholding pursuant to Sections 93-12-1 et seq. Payment shall be made to the department.
MS Code § 93-12-19 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 12 - Enforcement of Child Support Orders from Foreign Jurisdictions|§ 93-12-19. Application of state laws to actions and proceedings

 The laws of this state shall apply in all actions and proceedings concerning the issuance, enforcement and duration of an order for withholding issued by a court of this state, which is based upon a support order of another jurisdiction entered pursuant to Sections 93-12-1 et seq. The penalties contained in Section 93-11-117, Mississippi Code of 1972, shall apply to all orders for withholding issued pursuant to Sections 93-12-1 et seq.
MS Code § 93-15-101 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law|§ 93-15-101. Short title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law."
MS Code § 93-15-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law|§ 93-15-105. Jurisdiction and venue

  The chancery court has original exclusive jurisdiction over all termination of parental rights proceedings except that a county court, when sitting as a youth court with jurisdiction of a child in an abuse or neglect proceeding, has original exclusive jurisdiction to hear a petition for termination of parental rights against a parent of that child.     Venue in a county court sitting as a youth court for termination of parental rights proceedings shall be in the county in which the court has jurisdiction of the child in the abuse or neglect proceedings. Venue in chancery court for termination of parental rights proceedings shall be proper either in the county in which the defendant resides, the child resides or in the county where an agency or institution having custody of the child is located.   Transfers of venue shall be governed by the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.
MS Code § 93-15-107 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law|§ 93-15-107. Commencement of proceedings; parties; summons

    Involuntary termination of parental rights proceedings are commenced upon the filing of a petition under this chapter. The petition may be filed by any interested person, or any agency, institution or person holding custody of the child. The simultaneous filing of a petition for adoption is not a prerequisite for filing a petition under this chapter.   The proceeding shall be triable, either in term time or vacation, thirty (30) days after personal service of process to any necessary party or, for a necessary party whose address is unknown after diligent search, thirty (30) days after the date of the first publication of service of process by publication that complies with the Mississippi Rules of Civil Procedure.   Necessary parties to a termination of parental rights action shall include the mother of the child, the legal father of the child, the putative father of the child when known, and any agency, institution or person holding custody of the child. The absence of a necessary party who has been properly served does not preclude the court from conducting the hearing or rendering a final judgment.   A guardian ad litem shall be appointed to protect the best interest of the child, except that the court, in its discretion, may waive this requirement when a parent executes a written voluntary release to terminate parental rights. The guardian ad litem fees shall be determined and assessed in the discretion of the court.     Voluntary termination of parental rights by written voluntary release is governed by Section 93-15-111.   In all cases involving termination of parental rights, a minor parent shall be served with process as an adult.   The court may waive service of process if an adoptive child was born in a foreign country, put up for adoption in the birth country, and has been legally admitted into this country.
MS Code § 93-15-109 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law|§ 93-15-109. Surrender of a child to the Department of Child Protection Services or a home

  A parent may accomplish the surrender of a child to the Department of Child Protection Services or to a home by:   Delivering the child to the Department of Child Protection Services or the home;   Executing an affidavit of a written agreement that names the child and which vests in the Department of Child Protection Services or the home the exclusive custody, care and control of the child; and   Executing a written voluntary release as set forth in Section 93-15-111(2).     If a child has been surrendered to a home or other agency operating under the laws of another state, and the child is delivered into the custody of a petitioner or home within this state, the execution of consent by the nonresident home or agency shall be sufficient.   Nothing in this section prohibits the delivery and surrender of a child to an emergency medical services provider pursuant to Sections 43-15-201 through 43-15-209.
MS Code § 93-15-111 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law|§ 93-15-111. Termination by written voluntary release

  The court may accept the parent's written voluntary release if it meets the following minimum requirements:   Is signed under oath and dated at least seventy-two (72) hours after the birth of the child;   States the parent's full name, the relationship of the parent to the child, and the parent's address;   States the child's full name, date of birth, time of birth if known, and place of birth as indicated on the birth certificate;   Identifies the governmental agency or home to which the child has been surrendered, if any;   States the parent's consent to adoption of the child and waiver of service of process for any future adoption proceedings;   Acknowledges that the termination of the parent's parental rights and that the subsequent adoption of the child may significantly affect, or even eliminate, the parent's right to inherit from the child under the laws of Descent and Distribution (Chapter 1, Title 91, Mississippi Code of 1972);   Acknowledges that all provisions of the written voluntary release were entered into knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily; and   Acknowledges that the parent is entitled to consult an attorney regarding the parent's parental rights.     The court's order accepting the parent's written voluntary release terminates all of the parent's parental rights to the child, including, but not limited to, the parental right to control or withhold consent to an adoption. If the court does not accept the parent's written voluntary release, then any interested person, or any agency, institution or person holding custody of the child, may commence involuntary termination of parental rights proceedings under Section 93-15-107.
MS Code § 93-15-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law|§ 93-15-113. Conduct of hearing for involuntary termination of parental rights; counsel for parent

  A hearing on the involuntary termination of parental rights shall be conducted without a jury and in accordance with the Mississippi Rules of Evidence. The court may exclude the child from the hearing if the court determines that the exclusion of the child from the hearing is in the child's best interest.     At the beginning of the involuntary termination of parental rights hearing, the court shall determine whether all necessary parties are present and identify all persons participating in the hearing; determine whether the notice requirements have been complied with and, if not, determine whether the affected parties intelligently waived compliance with the notice requirements; explain to the parent the purpose of the hearing, the standard of proof required for terminating parental rights, and the consequences if the parent's parental rights are terminated. The court shall also explain to the parent:   The right to counsel;   The right to remain silent;   The right to subpoena witnesses;   The right to confront and cross-examine witnesses; and   The right to appeal, including the right to a transcript of the proceedings.     The court shall then determine whether the parent before the court is represented by counsel. If the parent wishes to retain counsel, the court shall continue the hearing for a reasonable time to allow the parent to obtain and consult with counsel of the parent's own choosing. If an indigent parent does not have counsel, the court shall determine whether the parent is entitled to appointed counsel under the Constitution of the United States, the Mississippi Constitution of 1890, or statutory law and, if so, appoint counsel for the parent and then continue the hearing for a reasonable time to allow the parent to consult with the appointed counsel. The setting of fees for court-appointed counsel and the assessment of those fees are in the discretion of the court.
MS Code § 93-15-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law|§ 93-15-115. Involuntary termination when child in care and custody or under the supervision of the Department of Child Protection Services pursuant to youth court proceedings and reasonable efforts for reunification are required; standard of proof

 When reasonable efforts for reunification are required for a child who is in the custody of, or under the supervision of, the Department of Child Protection Services pursuant to youth court proceedings, the court hearing a petition under this chapter may terminate the parental rights of a parent if, after conducting an evidentiary hearing, the court finds by clear and convincing evidence that:   The child has been adjudicated abused or neglected;   The child has been in the custody and care of, or under the supervision of, the Department of Child Protection Services for at least six (6) months, and, in that time period, the Department of Child Protection Services has developed a service plan for the reunification of the parent and the child;   A permanency hearing, or a permanency review hearing, has been conducted pursuant to the Uniform Rules of Youth Court Practice and the court has found that the Department of Child Protection Services, or a licensed child caring agency under its supervision, has made reasonable efforts over a reasonable period to diligently assist the parent in complying with the service plan but the parent has failed to substantially comply with the terms and conditions of the plan and that reunification with the abusive or neglectful parent is not in the best interests of the child; and   Termination of the parent's parental rights is appropriate because reunification between the parent and child is not desirable toward obtaining a satisfactory permanency outcome based on one or more of the grounds set out in Section 93-15-119 or 93-15-121.
MS Code § 93-15-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 15 - Mississippi Termination of Parental Rights Law|§ 93-15-117. Involuntary termination when child in care and custody or under supervision of the Department of Child Protection Services pursuant to youth court proceedings and reasonable efforts for reunification are not required; standard of proof

 When reasonable efforts for reunification are not required, a court hearing a petition under this chapter may terminate the parental rights of a parent if, after conducting an evidentiary hearing, the court finds by clear and convincing evidence:   That the child has been adjudicated abused or neglected;   That the child has been in the custody and care of, or under the supervision of, the Department of Child Protection Services for at least sixty (60) days and the Department of Child Protection Services is not required to make reasonable efforts for the reunification of the parent and the child pursuant to Section 43-21-603(7)(c) of the Mississippi Youth Court Law;   That a permanency hearing, or a permanency review hearing, has been conducted pursuant to the Uniform Rules of Youth Court Practice and the court has found that reunification with the abusive or neglectful parent is not in the best interests of the child; and   That termination of the parent's parental rights is appropriate because reunification between the parent and child is not desirable toward obtaining a satisfactory permanency outcome based on one or more of the following grounds:   The basis for bypassing the reasonable efforts for reunification of the parent and child under Section 43-21-603(7)(c) is established by clear and convincing evidence; or   Any ground listed in Section 93-15-119 or 93-15-121 is established by clear and convincing evidence.