{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-91-8-303","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 91-8-303","heading":"Representation by fiduciaries and parents.","body":"To the extent there is no material conflict of interest between the representative and the person represented or among those being represented with respect to a particular question or dispute:\n(1) A conservator or guardian may represent and bind the estate that the conservator or guardian controls;\n(2) A conservator or guardian may represent and bind the ward if a conservator or guardian of the ward’s estate has not been appointed;\n(3) An agent having authority to act with respect to the particular question or dispute may represent and bind the principal;\n(4) A trustee may represent and bind the beneficiaries of the trust;\n(5) A personal representative of a decedent’s estate may represent and bind persons interested in the estate;\n(6) A parent may represent and bind the person’s minor or unborn child if a conservator or guardian for the descendant has not been appointed;\n(7) A grandparent may represent the grandparent’s grandchild if that grandchild is not already represented by a parent under paragraph (6);\n(8) A person designated by the settlor either in the trust instrument or in a writing delivered to the trustee, or designated in a writing delivered to the trustee by a trust protector or trust advisor with power under the terms of the trust instrument to represent the beneficiaries of the trust, may represent and bind the beneficiaries; and\n(9) Any person acting in a fiduciary capacity shall exercise all rights and powers granted to a fiduciary under the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Acts created under Chapter 23, Title 91.","path":["Title 91. Trusts and Estates","Chapter 8. Mississippi Uniform Trust Code","Article 3. Representation."],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.91.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:53Z","sha256":"d5cd58a8a0befa81416b566aa4410b6b43e9b4499af09538ba72b04c8a150503","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-91-8-302","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-91-8-304","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-ms","title":"Mississippi Release 78 supplement","text":"Mississippi electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain dedication. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 78 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.ms.code.ann.2018"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}