County Officials

Chancery Court Department

The Chancery Court Department: 

• Creates and maintains files for each chancery court suit
• Issues process for service upon defendants
• Records the court's activities in various dockets and minute books
• Schedules courtroom time (where counties share a common courtroom between chancery and circuit, or other, courts)
• Maintains dockets (in those districts without a court administrator who performs this duty)
• Processes all phases of civil commitments
• Summons jurors (in those chancery court matters in which a jury trial has been granted)
• Receives and accounts for various filing fees required to accompany pleadings and appeals
• Attends each session of the chancery court
• Transmits statistical data to the Mississippi Supreme Court, AOC
• Processes the court's record(s) for appellate review

The Chancery Clerk serves as Clerk of the Chancery Court.

Click on 'Fee Schedules' in left column for a list of Chancery Court fees