Chancery Courts have jurisdiction over disputes in matters involving:
Equity; domestic matters including adoptions; custody disputes and divorces; guardianships; sanity hearings; wills; and challenges to constitutionality of state laws.
Mississippi 9th Chancery Court
Sub District 9
The State of Mississippi Judiciary Administrative Office of Courts defines MS 9th Chancery District as covering (in whole or in part) Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower, Warren, and Washington Counties.
Mississippi's 9th Chancery Court District, subdistrict 2, includes Washington, Sunflower and Humphreys Counties.
Indianola, MS; Sunflower, MS; Moorhead, MS; Inverness, MS; Ruleville, MS; Doddsville, MS; Holly Ridge, MS; and Drew, MS are all located in Sunflower County.
The Sunflower County Chancery Courthouse is located at 200 Main Street, Indianola, Mississippi. The mailing address of Sub-district 2 is Post Office Box 850, Indianola, Mississippi 38751-0850.
Belzoni, MS; Silver City, MS; Isola, MS; Midnight, MS; and Louise, MS are all located in Humphreys County.
The Humphreys County Chancery Courthouse is located at 102 Castleman Street St #2, Belzoni, Mississippi.
District 9 Judge Debra M. Giles
As an active member of the community, a neighbor and friend, Giles is uniquely equipped to serve the people of the Mississippi Delta. Her innovative ideas, wise and fair personality and years of knowledge and experience appeal to people of all nationalities, financial status, age and creed. With Judge Giles, “Everyone Gets a Fair Shake.”
Jurisdiction of Chancery Court
MS Const. Art. 6 § 159
The chancery court shall have full jurisdiction in the following matters and cases, viz.:
(a) All matters in equity; (b) Divorce and alimony; (c) Matters testamentary and of administration; (d) Minor's business; (e) Cases of idiocy, lunacy, and persons of unsound mind; (f) All cases of which the said court had jurisdiction under the laws in force when this Constitution is put in operation.
MS Const. Art. 6, § 160
Suits to try title, cancel deeds, or clouds upon title; Suits to decree and to displace possession; Suits to decree rents and compensation for improvements and taxes; and In all cases where said court heretofore exercised jurisdiction, auxiliary to courts of common law, it may exercise such jurisdiction to grant the relief sought, although the legal remedy may not have been exhausted or the legal title established by a suit at law.
Concurrent Jurisdiction
Chancery and Circuit Court | MS Const. Art. 6, § 161
And the chancery court shall have jurisdiction, concurrent with the circuit court, of suits on bonds of fiduciaries and public officers for failure to account for money or property received, or wasted or lost by neglect or failure to collect, and of suits involving inquiry into matters of mutual accounts; but if the plaintiff brings his suit in the circuit court, that court may, on application of the defendant, transfer the cause to the chancery court, if it appear that the accounts to be investigated are mutual and complicated.
Chancery Court as Youth Court | Miss. Code Ann. § 43-21-107(2)
A youth court division is hereby created as a division of the chancery court of each county in which no county court is maintained and any chancellor within a chancery court district shall be the judge of the youth court of that county within such chancery court district unless another judge is named by the senior chancellor of the county or chancery court district as provided by this chapter.
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