{"data":{"id":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-27-202","jurisdiction":"us-ms","citation":"Miss. Code Ann. § 93-27-202","heading":"Exclusive, continuing jurisdiction.","body":"(1) Except as otherwise provided in Section 93-27-204, a court of this state which has made a child custody determination consistent with Sections 93-27-201 or 93-27-203 has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction over the determination until:\n(a) A court of this state determines that neither the child, nor the child and one parent, nor the child and a person acting as a parent have a significant connection with this state and that substantial evidence is no longer available in this state concerning the child’s care, protection, training, and personal relationships; or\n(b) A court of this state or a court of another state determines that the child, the child’s parents, and any person acting as a parent currently do not reside in this state.\n(2) A court of this state which has made a child custody determination and does not have exclusive, continuing jurisdiction under this section may modify that determination only if it has jurisdiction to make an initial determination under Section 93-27-201.","path":["Title 93. Domestic Relations","Chapter 27. Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act","Article 2. Jurisdiction."],"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":"ac3cdf0d4a5c2ae761dc99ae01ee53157a5b8d304e02738b3889d0c3e3f44387","source_id":"us-ms","stale":false,"prev":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-27-201","next":"us-ms/miss.-code-ann.-93-27-203","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."}