The Mississippi 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. Land records are filed in Chancery Court.
Chancery Courts have jurisdiction over juvenile matters in counties which have no County Court. The chancellor may appoint a lawyer in private practice to sit as a youth court referee to hear juvenile matters such as delinquency, abuse and neglect.
Trials are typically heard by a chancellor without a jury, although state law allows parties to request a jury in Chancery Court.
There are 20 Chancery Court districts and 48 Chancery Court judges. The number of chancery judges per district ranges from one to four. Chancery Court judges are selected in non-partisan elections to serve four-year terms.
| Court District
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County/Counties
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| 1st Chancery District |
Alcorn, Tishomingo, Prentiss, Pontotoc, Lee, Itawamba, Monroe, Union
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| 2nd Chancery District |
Scott, Newton, Jasper
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| 3rd Chancery District |
DeSoto, Tate, Panola, Yalobusha, Grenada, Montgomery
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| 4th Chancery District |
Franklin, Amite, Pike, Walthall
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| 5th Chancery District |
Hinds
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| 6th Chancery District |
Attala, Carroll, Choctaw, Kemper, Neshoba, Winston
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| 7th Chancery District |
Bolivar, Coahoma, LeFlore, Quitman, Tallahatchie, Tunica
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| 8th Chancery District |
Hancock, Harrison, Stone
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| 9th Chancery District |
Humphreys, Issaquena, Sharkey, Sunflower, Warren, Washington
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| 10th Chancery District |
Forrest, Lamar, Marion, Pearl River, Perry
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| 11th Chancery District |
Holmes, Leake, Madison, Yazoo
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| 12th Chancery District |
Clarke, Lauderdale
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| 13th Chancery District |
Covington, Jefferson Davis, Lawrence, Simpson, Smith
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| 14th Chancery District |
Chickasaw, Clay, Lowndes, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Webster
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| 15th Chancery District |
Copiah, Lincoln
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| 16th Chancery District |
George, Greene, Jackson
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| 17th Chancery District |
Adams, Claiborne, Jefferson, Wilkinson
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| 18th Chancery District |
Benton, Calhoun, Lafayette, Marshall, Tippah
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| 19th Chancery District |
Jones, Wayne
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| 20th Chancery District |
Rankin
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