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In Mississippi, you can use an Affidavit if the estate is worth less than $12,500 and consists only of bank account and if there is no Will. Person claiming money must sign a bond guaranteeing to pay any lawful debts of the deceased up to the amount withdrawn.
There is a summary probate procedure for estates worth less than $500.
Mississippi, like most states, does not impose an estate or inheritance tax. Only a few states do.
Mississippi does not have its own minimum wage law. Therefore, employees in The Magnolia State are entitled to earn at least the federal minimum wage, $7.25 an hour.
In Mississippi, your employer may pay you a minimum wage of $2.13 an hour, as long as you earn enough in tips to bring your total hourly pay up to the full minimum wage, $7.25 an hour. If you don’t earn enough in tips to bring your compensation to the full minimum wage, your employer must make up the difference.
No. Miss. Code Ann. § 85-3-2.
Property you own & occupy to $75,000; if over 60 and married or widowed may claim a former residence; property cannot exceed 160 acres; sale proceeds exempt
Mobile home (as personal property) to $30,000 (Mobile home does not qualify as homestead unless you own land on which it is located)
No specific exemption
In Mississippi, you can receive unemployment benefits for a maximum of 26 weeks under state law.