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MS Code § 93-9-29 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-29. Order

  If the finding be against the defendant, the court shall make an order of filiation, declaring paternity and for the support and education of the child.   The order of filiation shall specify the sum to be paid weekly or otherwise. In addition to providing for the support and education, the order shall also provide for the funeral expenses if the child has died; for the support of the child prior to the making of the order of filiation; and such other expenses as the court may deem proper. In the event the defendant has health insurance available to him through an employer or organization that may extend benefits to the dependents of such defendant, the order of filiation may require the defendant to exercise the option of additional coverage in favor of the child he is legally responsible to support.   The court may require the payment to be made to the mother, or to some person or corporation to be designated by the court as trustee, but if the child is or is likely to become a public charge on a county or the state, the public welfare agent of that county shall be made the trustee. The payment shall be directed to be made to a trustee if the mother does not reside within the jurisdiction of the court. The trustee shall report to the court annually, or oftener as directed by the court, the amounts received and paid over.
MS Code § 93-9-30 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-30. Full faith and credit to foreign paternity determinations

 In any proceeding in Mississippi, either before a court or administrative tribunal, wherein the question of paternity may arise, and a determination or adjudication of paternity has been made through either a voluntary acknowledgement procedure, an administrative determination or a judicial order in another state or jurisdiction, then upon certification of that determination or adjudication by competent administrative or judicial authority of such state or jurisdiction, the court or administrative tribunal in Mississippi shall give full faith and credit to that foreign determination or adjudication, and it shall be conclusive proof of its substance.
MS Code § 93-9-33 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-33. Commitment for contempt

 The court also has power, on default as aforesaid, to adjudge the father in contempt and to order him committed to jail in the same manner and with the same powers as in case of commitment for default in giving security. The commitment of the father shall not operate to stay execution upon the judgment of the bond.
MS Code § 93-9-35 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-35. Support by mother

  If a mother of a natural child be possessed of property and shall fail to support and educate her child, the court having jurisdiction, on the application of the guardian or next friend of the child or, if the child shall receive Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) benefits or other financial assistance, of the county human services agent or youth counselor, may examine into the matter and after a hearing may make an order charging the mother with the payment of money weekly or otherwise for the support and education of the child.   The court may require the mother to give security, by bond or other security, with sufficient sureties approved by the court, for the payment of the order. In default of such security, when required, the court may commit her to jail, or put her on probation. At any time within one (1) year she may be discharged from jail, but her liability to pay the judgment shall not be thereby affected.   Nothing in this section shall be deemed to relieve the father from liability for support and education of the child in accordance with the provisions of Sections 93-9-1 through 93-9-49.
MS Code § 93-9-37 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-37. False declaration of identity

 The making of a false complaint as to the identity of the father, or the aiding or abetting therein, shall be punishable as for perjury.
MS Code § 93-9-39 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-39. Probation

 Upon a failure to give security as provided herein, the court, instead of imposing sentence or of committing the father or mother to jail, or as a condition of his or her release from jail, may place him or her on probation, upon such terms as to payment of support to or on behalf of the child, and as to personal reports, as the court may direct. Upon violation of the terms imposed, the court may proceed to impose the sentence and commit or recommit to jail in accordance with the sentence.
MS Code § 93-9-41 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-41. Appeals

 An appeal in all cases may be taken by the defendant, a guardian ad litem appointed by the court for the child, the mother or her personal representative, or the public welfare official, from any final order or judgment of any court having jurisdiction of filiation proceedings, as provided for in Sections 93-9-1 through 93-9-49, directly to the supreme court within thirty (30) days after the entry of said order of judgment.   No appeal however shall operate as a stay of execution unless the defendant shall give the security provided for in Sections 93-9-1 through 93-9-49, and further security to pay the costs of such appeal. If any such appeal shall be taken by a guardian ad litem, appointed for the child by the court, the court may in its discretion allow payment, for the actual disbursements made by the said guardian ad litem for taking appeal. When allowed by the judge and duly audited, said disbursement shall become a county charge and shall be paid by the county.
MS Code § 93-9-43 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-43. Prosecuting official

 It shall be the duty of the county attorney, in counties having a county attorney, (in the county in which the complaint is made) to prosecute all cases relating to natural children where the complainant is a state or county public welfare official. He shall receive as compensation for his services, when and if performed, not to exceed the sum of One Hundred Dollars ($100.00) for any one month, in addition to compensation provided otherwise, out of the county treasury upon an order of the county, circuit, or chancery judge. In counties not having a county attorney, the complaint shall be prosecuted by the district attorney, or by an attorney representing the state or county public welfare official as the petitioner, who shall receive the same compensation as herein provided for the county attorney.
MS Code § 93-9-45 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-45. Costs

 If the court makes an order of filiation, declaring paternity and for the support and maintenance, and education of the child, court costs, including the cost of the legal services of the attorney representing the petitioner, expert witness fees, the court clerk, sheriff and other costs shall be taxed against the defendant.
MS Code § 93-9-47 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-47. No explicit reference to illegitimacy to appear in certain records

 In all records, certificates or other papers hereafter made or executed, other than birth records and certificates or records of judicial proceedings in which the question of birth out of wedlock is at issue, requiring a declaration by or notice to the mother of a child born out of wedlock or otherwise requiring a reference to the relation of a mother to such a child, it shall be sufficient for all purposes to refer to the mother as the parent having the sole custody of the child, and no explicit reference shall be made to illegitimacy.
MS Code § 93-9-49 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Uniform Law on Paternity|§ 93-9-49. Settlement agreements

 An agreement of settlement with the alleged father is binding only when approved by the court.
MS Code § 93-9-71 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Death of Mother or Child|§ 93-9-71. Death of mother; effect on paternity proceeding

 The death of the mother shall not abate the paternity prosecution, if the child be living; but a suggestion of the fact shall be made, and the name of the child substituted in the proceedings for that of the mother, and a guardian ad litem shall be appointed by the court to prosecute the cause, who shall not be liable for costs; and in such case the testimony of the mother, taken in writing before the justice, may be read in evidence, and shall have the same force and effect as if she were living and had testified to the same in court.
MS Code § 93-9-73 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Death of Mother or Child|§ 93-9-73. Dying declarations of mother

 In all proceedings to determine the parentage of a child when the mother is dead, her declarations in her travail, proved to be her dying declarations, may, on the trial of the case, be received in evidence.
MS Code § 93-9-75 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 9 - Parentage|Death of Mother or Child|§ 93-9-75. Death of child; effect on paternity proceeding

 The death of the child, if the mother be living and unmarried, shall not be cause of abatement or bar to any suit brought under this chapter; but the court trying the same shall, on conviction, give judgment for such sum as shall be deemed just.
MS Code § 93-11-64 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|In General|§ 93-11-64. Use of social security numbers for locating parents

  The Department of Human Services and its divisions, and any agency, office or registry established by the department, or which works in conjunction with the department, or is authorized to supply information to the department, may use Social Security numbers for the purpose of locating parents or alleged parents, establishing parentage, and establishing the amount of, modifying, or enforcing child support obligations.   This section requires that the Social Security number of:   Any applicant for a state-issued license be recorded on the application;   Any individual who is subject to a divorce decree, support order, or paternity determination or acknowledgment be placed in the records relating to the matter; and   Any individual who has died be placed in the records relating to the death and be recorded on the death certificate.
MS Code § 93-11-67 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|In General|§ 93-11-67. Personal jurisdiction over nonresident defendants

  In an action for child support, a court may exercise personal jurisdiction over and enter a judgment in personam against a defendant if personal service of process is made as provided below and if the parties had resided in a marital relationship with each other in this state for thirty (30) days and if the complainant has continuously resided in this state after the defendant has become a nonresident.   The defendant shall be personally served with a summons and a copy of the petition in the manner prescribed by the law of the state or jurisdiction in which service is made or by any form of mail addressed to the defendant with a receipt showing personal delivery or by personal service outside this state or jurisdiction in the manner prescribed for service within this state.   Proof of service outside this state or jurisdiction may be by affidavit of the individual who made service or in the manner prescribed by the law of this state or in the manner prescribed by the law of the state or jurisdiction in which service is made. If service is by mail, proof may be a receipt signed by the defendant or other evidence of personal delivery to the defendant.
MS Code § 93-11-105 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|Orders for Withholding|§ 93-11-105. Administrative orders

  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 93-11-103, the Department of Human Services shall be authorized to implement administrative orders for withholding without the necessity of obtaining an order through judicial proceedings. The administrative order for withholding shall be implemented pursuant to a previously rendered order for support and shall be on a form prescribed by the Department of Human Services. Unless inconsistent with the provisions of this section, the order for withholding shall be subject to the same requirements as provided in Sections 93-11-101 through 93-11-118.   A copy of the administrative order shall be transmitted to the obligor by regular mail to the last-known address of the obligor.   The order for withholding shall:   Direct any payor to withhold an amount equal to the order for the current support obligation;   Direct any payor to withhold an additional amount equal to twenty percent (20%) of the current support obligation, unless a different amount has been previously ordered by the court, until payment in full of any delinquency; and   Direct the payor not to withhold in excess of the amounts allowed under Section 303(b) of the Consumer Credit Protection Act, being 15 USCS 1673, as amended.
MS Code § 93-11-113 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|Orders for Withholding|§ 93-11-113. Modification, suspension, or termination of orders

  At any time, an obligor, obligee, the department or clerk of the court may petition the court to:   Modify, suspend or terminate the order for withholding because of a modification, suspension or termination of the underlying order for support; or   Modify the amount of income to be withheld to reflect payment in full of the delinquency by income withholding or otherwise; or   Suspend the order for withholding because of inability to deliver income withheld to the obligee due to the obligee's failure to provide a mailing address or other means of delivery.     The clerk shall serve on the payor, by first class mail or personal delivery, a copy of any order entered pursuant to this section that affects the duties of the payor.   The order for withholding shall continue to be binding upon the payor until service of any order of the court entered under this section.
MS Code § 93-11-115 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|Orders for Withholding|§ 93-11-115. Additional notice requirements; records, legal forms, and information

  An obligee who is receiving income withholding payments under Sections 93-11-101 through 93-11-119 shall notify the department of any change of address within seven (7) days of such change.   An obligee who is a recipient of public aid shall send a copy of any notice filed pursuant to Section 93-11-103 to the department.   An obligor whose income is being withheld pursuant to Sections 93-11-101 through 93-11-119 shall notify the department and the clerk of the court of any new payor, within seven (7) days.   When the department is no longer authorized to receive payments for the obligee, it shall, within seven (7) days, notify the payor and the clerk of the court.   The department shall provide notice to the payor and the clerk of the court of any other support payment made, including, but not limited to, a set-off under federal and state law or partial payment of the delinquency.   The department shall maintain complete, accurate and clear records of all payments and their disbursements. Certified copies of payment records maintained by the department shall, without further proof, be admitted into evidence in any legal proceedings under Sections 93-11-101 through 93-11-119.   The department shall design suggested legal forms for proceeding under Sections 93-11-101 through 93-11-119 and shall make available to the courts such forms and informational materials which describe the procedures and remedies set forth herein for distribution to all parties in support actions.
MS Code § 93-11-116 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|Orders for Withholding|§ 93-11-116. Order for withholding based upon support order from foreign jurisdiction; procedural requirements

 An obligee who seeks a wage withholding order based upon an order for support from a foreign jurisdiction, must comply with the provisions of Sections 93-12-1 through 93-12-19.
MS Code § 93-11-117 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|Orders for Withholding|§ 93-11-117. Penalties

  In cases in which a payor willfully fails to withhold or pay over income pursuant to a valid order for withholding, the following penalties shall apply:   The payor shall be liable for a civil penalty of not more than:   Five Hundred Dollars ($500.00); or   One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00) in an instance where the failure to comply is the result of collusion between the payor and the obligor; and     The court, upon due notice and hearing, shall enter judgment and direct the issuance of an execution for the total amount that the payor willfully failed to withhold or pay over.     In cases in which a payor discharges, disciplines, refuses to hire or otherwise penalizes an obligor as prohibited by subsection (9) of Section 93-11-111, the court, upon due notice and hearing, shall fine the payor in an amount not to exceed Fifty Dollars ($50.00).   Any obligee, the department or obligor who willfully initiates a false proceeding under Sections 93-11-101 through 93-11-119 or who willfully fails to comply with the requirements of Sections 93-11-101 through 93-11-119 shall be punished as in cases of contempt of court.
MS Code § 93-11-118 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|Orders for Withholding|§ 93-11-118. Fraudulent conveyance of assets by obligor

  Indicia of fraud which create a prima facie case that an obligor transferred income or property to avoid payment of child support to an obligee or department on behalf of an obligee shall be as stated in Section 15-3-3, Mississippi Code of 1972.   Remedies for such fraudulent conveyance shall include, but not be limited to, the setting aside of such conveyance.   Penalties for such fraudulent conveyance shall be a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00).
MS Code § 93-11-119 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|Orders for Withholding|§ 93-11-119. Relation to other rights, remedies, duties, and penalties

  The rights, remedies, duties and penalties created by Sections 93-11-101 through 93-11-119 are in addition to and not in substitution for any other rights, remedies, duties and penalties created by any other law.   Nothing in Sections 93-11-101 through 93-11-119 shall be construed as invalidating any garnishment, attachment or assignment of wages or benefits instituted prior to July 1, 1985; provided, however, any such garnishment, attachment or assignment shall be subject to the priorities established under the provisions of subsection (3) of Section 93-11-111.
MS Code § 93-11-151 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|Suspension of State-Issued Licenses, Permits or Registrations for Noncompliance with Child Support Order|§ 93-11-151. Intent

 In addition to other requirements necessary for holding a license, an individual who is subject to an order to pay child support also is subject to the provisions of Sections 93-11-151 through 93-11-163.
MS Code § 93-11-153 (2020)
2020 Mississippi Code|Title 93 - Domestic Relations|Chapter 11 - Enforcement of Support of Dependents|Suspension of State-Issued Licenses, Permits or Registrations for Noncompliance with Child Support Order|§ 93-11-153. Definitions

 As used in Sections 93-11-151 through 93-11-163, the following words and terms shall have the meanings ascribed herein:   "Licensing entity" or "entity" means any entity specified in Title 73, Professions and Vocations, of the Mississippi Code, and includes the Mississippi Department of Public Safety with respect to driver's licenses, the Mississippi State Tax Commission with respect to licenses for the sale of alcoholic beverages and other licenses or registration authorizing a person to engage in a business, the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks with respect to hunting and fishing licenses, and any other state agency that issues a license authorizing a person to engage in a business, occupation or profession. For the purposes of this article, the Supreme Court shall be considered to be the licensing entity for attorneys.   "License" means a license, certificate, permit, credential, registration, or any other authorization issued by a licensing entity that allows a person to engage in a business, occupation or profession, to operate a motor vehicle, to sell alcoholic beverages, or to hunt and fish.   "Licensee" means any person holding a license issued by a licensing entity.   "Order for support" means any judgment or order that provides for payments of a sum certain for the support of a child, whether it is temporary or final, and includes, but is not limited to, an order for reimbursement for public assistance or an order for making periodic payments on a support arrearage, or a sum certain due for a support arrearage.   "Out of compliance with an order for support" means that the obligor is at least thirty (30) days in arrears or delinquent in making payments in full for current support, or in making periodic payments on a support arrearage.   "Department" means the Mississippi Department of Human Services.   "Division" means the division within the department that is charged with the state administration of Title IV-D of the Social Security Act.   "Delinquency" means any payments of a sum certain ordered by any court to be paid by a noncustodial parent for the support of a child that have remained unpaid for at least thirty (30) days after payment is due. Delinquency shall also include payments of a sum certain ordered by any court to be paid for maintenance of a spouse that have remained unpaid for at least thirty (30) days.