The Mississippi Living Will is titled "Instructions for Healthcare" and is included with a form for naming a Health Care Proxy in an Advance Directive packet.
For your MS Advance Directive to be considered legal, your signature must be notarized OR two (2) witnesses must sign it.
For your MS Advance Directive to be considered legal, your signature must be notarized OR two (2) witnesses must sign it.
Mississippi Advance Directive Form
Other resources for Mississippi:
Death Certificates
Digital Estate Planning Laws:
Law: HB 489 Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act
Description: This law authorizes a decedent’s personal representative or trustee to access and manage digital assets and electronic communications.
Status: Approved on April 12, 2017; Effective July 1, 2017
Death With Dignity Legislation (a.k.a. Aid-In-Dying or Physician-Assisted Death)
Organ Donation Registries
Mississippi Organ Donation registry official link.
POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment)
Mississippi doesn’t currently have a POLST program (check the status here).
Probate Laws
Estate And Inheritance Tax Rate
Death Certificates
Digital Estate Planning Laws:
Law: HB 489 Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act
Description: This law authorizes a decedent’s personal representative or trustee to access and manage digital assets and electronic communications.
Status: Approved on April 12, 2017; Effective July 1, 2017
Death With Dignity Legislation (a.k.a. Aid-In-Dying or Physician-Assisted Death)
- Mississippi has no legislation
Organ Donation Registries
Mississippi Organ Donation registry official link.
POLST (Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment)
Mississippi doesn’t currently have a POLST program (check the status here).
Probate Laws
Estate And Inheritance Tax Rate
- Mississippi has no estate tax or inheritance tax