93-13-123 - Incompetent persons; guardian for nonresident. - Mississippi Statutes

§ 93-13-123. Incompetent persons; guardian for nonresident.
 

The chancery court of any county in which may be situated the property or any part of the property, or debt due to, or right of action of any person who has been adjudicated to be incompetent by proper proceedings in another state, or of a citizen of this state who is incompetent and is confined out of this state in a psychiatric hospital or institution, shall have jurisdiction to appoint a guardian of the estate of the person who is incompetent. The chancery court of the county of residence of those persons shall likewise have that jurisdiction. 
 

Sources: Codes, Hemingway's 1917, § 397; 1930, § 1896; 1942, § 432; Laws,  1914, ch. 159; Laws, 1920, ch. 317; Laws, 1956, ch. 210, §§ 1, 2; Laws, 2008, ch. 442, § 29, eff from and after July 1, 2008.