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Mississippi probate filing cost: $135

Opening a chancery civil case that 'includes ... estate of deceased' carries a fixed statutory total of $135.00: the single chancery-clerk service fee of $85.00 under Miss. Code Ann. § 25-7-9(2), plus two per-case add-on assessments mandated by § 25-7-9(3) for every civil case filed - $10.00 to the Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund (§ 9-21-14) and $40.00 to the Judicial System Operation Fund (§ 9-21-45). All three accrue on filing (as amended by S.B. 2792, 2024).

$135 is the amount the statute states. Sources reviewed August 9, 2026. Latest primary-source re-fetch October 3, 2026.

What the statute charges

Every line below is computed from the statutory schedule quoted at the end of this page. These are court charges only. They are not an estimate of the total cost of settling an estate.

Chancery civil case including estate of a deceased (§ 25-7-9(2))

Charge$25,000 estate$100,000 estate$400,000 estate$1,000,000 estate
Chancery-clerk service fee (§ 25-7-9(2))$85$85$85$85
Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund add-on (§ 25-7-9(3)(a))$10$10$10$10
Judicial System Operation Fund add-on (§ 25-7-9(3)(b))$40$40$40$40
Total from this schedule$135$135$135$135

Not included in this total

  • Publication
  • Cost of process / service

The opening total for an estate case is $135.00: the $85.00 chancery-clerk service fee plus the two mandatory per-case § 25-7-9(3) assessments ($10.00 Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund and $40.00 Judicial System Operation Fund). Publication and process-service costs are additional.

Source: S.B. 2792, § 1, 2024 Miss. Laws (Reg. Sess.) (amending Miss. Code Ann. § 25-7-9(2)), Mississippi Legislature. Edition/currentness: July 1, 20 24.. Verified October 3, 2026.

What the $135 is made of

Mississippi’s $135 figure is not a single line. It is the sum of the separate charges below, each set by its own part of the Mississippi fee provision. Every one is a permanent, statewide charge on opening this kind of case, which is why they combine into one number a filer can check rather than take on trust.

  • $85Chancery-clerk service fee, subsection (2)
  • $10Comprehensive Electronic Court Systems Fund, subsection (3)
  • $40Judicial System Operation Fund, subsection (3)

Added together, these come to $135 — the figure this page headlines. If any component changed in the source, the sum would no longer match, and the build withholds the total rather than publishing a number whose parts no longer add up.

What the Mississippi figure leaves out

The Mississippi caveats are listed once, on the Mississippi overview.

Other costs: probate cost lines.

Filing-cost source

Mississippi record: 2/2 verified, 12 matched checks, latest source re-fetch October 3, 2026. Source record · method · report a correction

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