{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-20-203","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 93-20-203","heading":"Notice of hearing for appointment of guardian for minor.","body":"(1) If a petition is filed under Section 93-20-202, the court must set a date, time and place for a hearing, and the petitioner must serve not less than seven (7) days’ notice of the hearing, together with a copy of the petition, on each of the following who is not the petitioner:\n(a) The minor, if the minor will be fourteen (14) years of age or older at the time of the hearing;\n(b) Each parent of the minor who can be found with reasonable diligence or, if there is none, the adult nearest in kinship who can be found with reasonable diligence;\n(c) Any adult with whom the minor resides;\n(d) Each individual who had primary care or custody of the minor for at least sixty (60) days during the six (6) months immediately before the filing of the petition; and\n(e) Any other person the court determines should receive service of notice.\n(2) A petition under this article must state the name and address of an attorney representing the petitioner, if any, and must set forth under the style of the case and before the body of the petition the following language in bold or highlighted type:\n“THE RELIEF SOUGHT HEREIN MAY AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO NOTICE OF ANY HEARING ON THIS PETITION, TO ATTEND ANY SUCH HEARING, AND TO BE REPRESENTED BY AN ATTORNEY.”\n(3) If a petitioner is unable to serve notice under subsection (1)(a), the court may appoint a guardian ad litem for the minor for the purpose of receiving notice.","path":["Title 93. Domestic Relations","Chapter 20. Guardianship and Conservatorship","ARTICLE 2 Guardianship of Minor"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.ms.code.ann.2018/release78.2020.07.08/gov.ms.code.title.93.odt","current_through":"2020-07-08","vintage":"Mississippi Code Release 78 (2020-07), retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-10-27T05:54:58Z","sha256":"8971313a01f552f347c8e58af49b23940080b344a2658acdc1e97af2ebf812ed","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-20-202","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-20-204","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."}