SEL Business Services, LLC v. Lord, 367 So. 3d 147 (Miss. 2023). In November 2019 Dr. William Lord and SEL Business Services, LLC (“SEL”) entered…
Haidar v. Margetta, 352 So. 3d 206 (Miss. Ct. App. 2022)(en banc). Yazmine Haidar and Harold Katz, as buyers, and Chad and Lynette Margetta, as…
Loblolly Properties LLC v. Le Papillon Homeowner’s Association Inc., Miss. Supreme Ct. No. 2021-CT-00767-SCT, 2023 WL 5311529 (August 17, 2023)(en banc). This case affirms the…
If you are involved in purchasing land near Camp Shelby in Forrest and Perry Counties, the Meridian Naval Air Station in Meridian, or the Naval…
Mississippi is one of only six states that do not allow remote notarizations. When the state was under an emergency declaration because of COVID-19, remote…
SB 2073 amends Section 93-19-13 of the Mississippi Code and other statutes to lower the age at which persons can enter into binding contracts affecting…
Franco v. Ferrill, 342 So. 3d 1176 (Miss. 2022). In a case of first impression, the Mississippi Court of Appeals has held that the test…
The following bills affecting real property were passed by the Legislature and signed into law by the Governor. All of these bills become effective on…
Loblolly Properties LLC v. Le Papillon Homeowner’s Ass’n, Miss. Court of Appeals No. 2021-CA-00767, 2022 WL 4478395 (Sept. 27, 2022)(rehearing denied Jan. 31, 2023)(not released…
The following pending bills affecting real property are still alive in the MississippiLegislature as of March 13, 2023. HB 280 would create a committee to…
No legislation (SB 2457 | HB 725 | HB 1069 – all died in Committee or on Calendar) was enacted to address the problem of…
In Conner v. Alltin, LLC 2021 WL 5588731 (Nov. 30, 2021), the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi held that certain…
The new Mississippi Medical Cannabis Act, SB 2095, raises some interesting zoning issues. First, the Act describes where cannabis facilities can be located by reference…
Prior to July 1, 2022, Section 91-7-63 provided that letters of administration shall be granted by the chancery court of the county in which the…
In HB 1769 the Legislature enacted by statute the wording of the eminent domain initiative that was approved by the voters in an initiative in…
HB 1351 amends Section 89-5-8 of the Mississippi to provide that an affidavit of scrivener’s error must recite the Mississippi bar number of the affiant…
HB 1214 makes changes to the Mississippi Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act, Miss. Code Ann. §§ 53-11-1 to -33 to promote carbon sequestration in…
In 2021 the Legislature enacted Miss. Code Ann. §§79-11-751 to -759, entitled Regulation of Homeowners Associations Management Agents and the Management of Association Assets. This…
Crotwell v. T&W Homes Etc, LLC, 318 So. 3d 1117 (Miss. 2021). In 1973, Lum conveyed forty acres to Crotwell by warranty deed and reserved…
Board of Supervisors of Hancock County v. Razz Halili Trust, 320 So. 3d 490 (Miss. 2021). The Razz Halili Trust d/b/a Prestige Oysters (“Trust”) purchased…
