Estate Planning Attorneys in Mississippi

56 estate planning firms in Mississippi, by county and firm type.

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56 firms

FirmVicksburg, MS

Bailess & Rector, LLP

Since 1878 · Serves the whole state

Vicksburg firm serving Warren County and clients across Mississippi, successor to a partnership formed in 1878. Guides executors through probating a will and settling the estate, and represents estates and executors in will challenges and claims of mismanaged estate assets. Also drafts wills, codicils, and advance directives.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationWills Trusts

Office: BancorpSouth Bank Building, 820 South Street, Suite 501Vicksburg, MS 39181
Phone: (601) 636-8451

FirmGulfport, MS

Boyce Holleman & Associates, P.A.

Since 1950 · Serves 3 counties

Gulfport firm across from the downtown courthouse, handling wills and estates on the Gulf Coast since 1950 for clients from Bay St. Louis to Pascagoula. Covers wills, powers of attorney, living wills, probate, will contests, and guardianship hearings for children and incapacitated adults. Spanish translation is available.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationGuardianshipWills Trusts

Office: 1720 23rd AvenueGulfport, MS 39501
Phone: (228) 863-3142

Solo PracticeMcComb, MS

Brandon W. Frazier, Attorney at Law, PLLC

Serves 4 counties

McComb solo practice serving Pike County and Southwest Mississippi. Assists executors, administrators, and beneficiaries with chancery court filings, inventory and appraisal, creditor notification, and final distribution, and drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives. Brandon W. Frazier has practiced in McComb since 2004.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateWills Trusts

Office: 346 Scott DriveMcComb, MS 39648
Phone: (601) 684-1125

Solo PracticeMcComb, MS

Brock Law, PLLC

Serves the whole state

McComb practice of Thomas W. Brock, admitted in 1980, serving Pike County and clients across Mississippi. Advises executors and administrators from appointment and bond through paying creditors and distributing property, and represents them in beneficiary disputes. Drafts wills, living trusts, and directives, and handles guardianships and conservatorships.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTax Planningand 3 more

Office: 200 Main StreetMcComb, MS 39648
Phone: (601) 533-9344

Free consultation

Solo PracticeGreenwood, MS

Burgoon & Oakes, P.C.

Serves 1 county

Greenwood office of attorney Richard A. Oakes on Fulton Street, serving Leflore County.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbate

Office: 103 Fulton StreetGreenwood, MS 38930
Phone: (662) 453-7373

FirmFlowood, MS

Barnes, Bailey, Janoush & Dick, P.A.

Serves 2 counties

Flowood firm with a second office in Biloxi, serving the Jackson metro and the Gulf Coast. Counsels executors and trustees through estate and trust administration and represents beneficiaries and fiduciaries in estate and trust disputes. Pairs estate planning with tax planning, charitable gift planning, and tax audit work for high-net-worth families.

PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 3 more

Office: 5 River Bend Place, Suite AFlowood, MS 39232
Phone: (601) 981-6336

Solo PracticeBiloxi, MS

Blackledge Law Firm

Serves 3 counties

Biloxi solo practice of Joel L. Blackledge, an attorney and CPA, serving Harrison, Jackson, and Hancock counties. Handles testate and intestate estates from the petition and letters through creditor notice, determination of heirs, and closing, and drafts wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and healthcare directives. Weekend and after-hours appointments are available.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateWills Trusts

Office: 250 Beauvoir Rd, Suite 5Biloxi, MS 39531
Phone: (228) 678-8365

Free consultation

Solo PracticeCorinth, MS

The Weeden Law Firm

Serves 1 county

Corinth practice of attorney Ken Weeden serving Alcorn County and North Mississippi. Handles estate probate and estate disputes, including trust lawsuits, and prepares wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and living wills and advance healthcare directives. Offers a free initial consultation, with after-hours and weekend appointments available.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust LitigationWills Trusts

Office: 607 Childs StreetCorinth, MS 38834
Phone: (662) 665-4665

Free consultation

Solo PracticeTupelo, MS

Bryson Law Firm, PLLC

Serves the whole state

Tupelo practice of attorney Kerry M. Bryson, handling estate planning and probate for Lee County clients and across Mississippi, including out-of-state heirs. Checks the courthouse for liens on real property to value the estate and reviews probate alternatives, and drafts wills, powers of attorney, and advance health care directives. Can provide video recordings of a will signing.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateTax PlanningWills Trusts

Office: 125 Robins StreetTupelo, MS 38804
Phone: (662) 205-0008

Free consultation

FirmMeridian, MS

Barry, Thaggard & May, LLP

Since 1956 · Serves 6 counties

Meridian firm with origins in a Lauderdale County practice formed in 1946 and the predecessor firm Bourdeaux & Jones (1956). Trusts and estates is a listed practice area alongside real estate, healthcare, family law, civil litigation, and government and insurance defense.

PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateGuardianshipWills Trusts

Office: 505 Constitution AvenueMeridian, MS 39301
Phone: (601) 693-2393

FirmCleveland, MS

Cox & Moore, PLLC

Serves the whole state

The oldest law firm in Cleveland, tracing its beginnings to 1952, serving Bolivar County and clients across the Delta and North Mississippi. Handles estate planning and administration and probate, including wills, trusts, powers of attorney, and health care directives. Listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers, one of four Cleveland firms to hold that distinction.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateWills Trusts

Office: 109 S. Sharpe AvenueCleveland, MS 38732
Phone: (662) 843-8351

Solo PracticeHattiesburg, MS

Davis-Morris Law Firm, P.A.

Serves 1 county

Hattiesburg practice on West Pine Street in Forrest County, where Angela Davis-Morris pairs estate planning with Social Security disability work. Prepares wills, trusts, powers of attorney and health care proxies, and handles Medicaid qualification for long-term care, including crisis planning when a parent is already in a nursing home. Holds free estate planning workshops.

PracticesEstate PlanningSpecial Needs PlanningAsset ProtectionMedicaid PlanningWills Trusts

Office: 804 W Pine StreetHattiesburg, MS 39401
Phone: (601) 602-8874

FirmColumbus, MS

Dunn & Hemphill, P.A.

Serves 9 counties

Columbus estate planning and elder law firm seeing clients across the Golden Triangle, in person or virtually. Handles the probate of wills, intestate administrations and heirship determinations in Chancery Court, along with conservatorships, guardianships and Medicaid long-term-care planning. Offers a free 30-minute consultation for estate planning matters after the intake form.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateElder LawConservatorshipand 4 more

Office: 214 5th Street SouthColumbus, MS 39701
Phone: (662) 327-4211

Free consultationVirtual consultations

FirmOxford, MS

Daniel Coker Horton & Bell, P.A.

Since 1946 · Serves 3 counties

Oxford office, opened in 1995 to serve north Mississippi, of a litigation firm that traces its origins to 1946 and also has offices in Madison and Gulfport. Drafts wills and handles small estates and probate for executors and beneficiaries, from asset inventory and debts through tax filings and final distribution, and defends will contests. Shareholder Lauren E. Ward practices estate planning.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationWills Trusts

Office: 265 North Lamar Boulevard, Suite ROxford, MS 38655
Phone: (662) 232-8979

Solo PracticeSouthaven, MS

Law Office of Eric L. Sappenfield, PLLC

Serves 3 counties

Southaven office in DeSoto County serving DeSoto, Marshall and Tunica counties in north Mississippi along with Shelby County, Tennessee. Eric L. Sappenfield prepares wills and handles probate and estate administration, representing clients in all facets of the Mississippi probate process. Most of the practice is residential and commercial real estate closings, title insurance and foreclosures.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateWills Trusts

Office: 6858 Swinnea Road, 5 Rutland PlaceSouthaven, MS 38671
Phone: (662) 349-3436

FirmAshland, MS

Farese, Farese & Farese, P.A.

Since 1939 · Serves 2 counties

Ashland firm in Benton County, founded in 1939, with a branch office in Oxford, serving north Mississippi and west Tennessee. Opens estates, conducts the inventory and notifies creditors, and litigates will contests, will and trust construction disputes and fiduciary-breach claims against executors and trustees. Most of its work is criminal defense and personal injury; consultations are free.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationTrust Litigation

Office: 122 Church AvenueAshland, MS 38603
Phone: (662) 736-1292

Free consultation

Solo PracticeHattiesburg, MS

Flowers Law Firm

Since 1992 · Serves 1 county

Hattiesburg practice on North 25th Avenue serving clients across the Pine Belt. Prepares wills, codicils, living wills, living trusts and powers of attorney, alongside the family law and bankruptcy cases that make up most of its work. In service since 1992, with Richard Allen Flowers as its attorney.

PracticesEstate PlanningWills Trusts

Office: 341 N. 25th AvenueHattiesburg, MS 39401
Phone: (601) 583-9300

FirmLaurel, MS

Gilchrist Yoder Yoder Leggett & Thames, PLLC

Serves 1 county

Laurel firm in Jones County that traces its roots to Stone Deavours, who began practicing in Laurel in 1902. Prepares wills, trusts, powers of attorney and health care directives and assists families in probating estates; one attorney also handles guardianships and conservatorships. The larger practice is corporate work, litigation, real estate closings and workers' compensation defense.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateConservatorshipGuardianshipWills Trusts

Office: 415 N. Magnolia Street, Suite 400Laurel, MS 39440
Phone: (601) 649-3351

FirmJackson, MS

Gibson & Mullennix, PLLC

Serves 3 counties

Jackson office on Lelia Drive handling probate for families in Hinds, Madison and Rankin counties. Cody Gibson files testate and intestate estates, represents executors and personal representatives, litigates challenged estate documents and petitions for guardianships and conservatorships. He also drafts wills and living trusts, alongside criminal defense and family law; consultations are free.

PracticesEstate PlanningProbateProbate LitigationConservatorshipand 3 more

Office: 1640 Lelia Drive, Suite 200Jackson, MS 39216
Phone: (601) 586-5386

Free consultation

FirmJackson, MS

Glover Russell, P.A.

Serves 1 county

Jackson firm on North Congress Street representing executors through probate, from opening the estate through claims, estate tax returns and closing, plus heirship determinations, ancillary probate, trust administration and litigation over executor and trustee breaches and will contests. Senior partner Glover "Russ" Russell Jr. is a certified public accountant with a master of laws in taxation.

PracticesEstate PlanningTrust AdministrationProbateProbate Litigationand 7 more

Office: 120 N. Congress Street, Suite 600Jackson, MS 39201
Phone: (601) 709-7000

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A basic revocable living trust in Mississippi costs $3,680 to $5,520 when drafted by an attorney, ten to fifteen hours of work at $368 an hour. An online service prices a trust package in the low hundreds of dollars without attorney advice on your situation. The Mississippi trust cost calculator carries the breakdown.

Even with a revocable trust in Mississippi, you still need a will, most commonly a pour-over will that catches any asset never retitled into the trust. Mississippi also allows a transfer-on-death deed for real estate, which moves property out of probate without a trust. Whether a trust adds enough over a will-only plan turns on the situation: real property, a blended family and out-of-state assets are the common reasons. The Mississippi trust-or-will tool walks through the decision.

Estate planning attorneys in Mississippi average $283 an hour for wills and estates work. A flat-fee package runs $849 to $1,698 for a simple individual will and $3,680 to $5,520 for a basic revocable trust. An online service prices the same documents in the tens to low hundreds of dollars; the Mississippi will cost calculator sets the two side by side.

In Mississippi, estates valued at $75,000 or less skip probate with the Small Estate Affidavit, 30 days after death. That route is a form rather than a court case, and most families handle it without an attorney. Above the line, formal probate generally benefits from counsel for the procedural work, even when nothing is contested. The Mississippi probate calculator estimates the cost by estate value.

In Mississippi, the situations where counsel is typically worth the cost are: a blended family with children from a prior relationship; a business, rental property or significant investment assets; a dependent with special needs, who needs a special-needs trust to keep benefits; substantial property in more than one state. Where none of these apply, an online or self-help document is often enough.

Estate Planning Attorneys in Mississippi

Estate planning attorneys focused on trusts in Mississippi charge $368 per hour for trust work. A basic revocable trust runs $3,680 to $5,520 when drafted by counsel. Trusts make the most sense in Mississippi when you own real property, have a blended family, or want to avoid probate court entirely.

Estate planning attorneys in Mississippi charge $283 per hour for wills and estates work. A simple will done through an attorney typically runs $849–$1,698; online services cost $30–$300 for the same document.

Mississippi hasn't adopted the Uniform Probate Code and doesn't offer simplified independent administration. The procedural floor is higher than most states, which is why retaining counsel for uncontested matters here is more practical than optional.

Estates under $75,000 in Mississippi can use a simplified affidavit instead of formal probate. Most families in that range can handle it without retaining counsel.

SimplyTrust Editorial·Updated October 15, 2026

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Forms for Planning and Settling an Estate in Mississippi

Free Mississippi forms for planning an estate or settling one: a will, trust, powers of attorney, TOD deed, and the probate forms an executor files.

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Revocable Living Trust

Create a revocable living trust to avoid probate, protect privacy, and control asset distribution.

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Last Will and Testament

In Mississippi, a will is signed before 2 witnesses, and a self-proving affidavit signed with it lets the court admit it without witness testimony.

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Healthcare Power of Attorney

Mississippi allows a choice for a healthcare power of attorney: 2 witnesses or a notary.

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Financial Power of Attorney

Mississippi requires explicit durability language for a power of attorney to survive incapacity, and it is signed with no witness or notary requirement.

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Pour-Over Will

In Mississippi, a pour-over will is signed before 2 witnesses and moves anything left outside the trust into it through probate.

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Transfer on Death Deed

In Mississippi, a transfer-on-death deed is signed before a notary, then recorded with the county before the owner's death.

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Tools for Planning and Settling an Estate in Mississippi

Free calculators and checklists for planning or settling an estate in Mississippi: will and trust costs, probate, executor pay, and inheritance taxes.

Trust or Will: Which Costs Less?

In Mississippi, a will-based plan pays probate attorney fees of typically 1.6% to 2.5% of the estate; a funded revocable trust keeps those assets out of probate and off that fee.

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Do I Need a Revocable Trust?

Probate in Mississippi takes 6 months to 12 months for a simple estate and charges attorney fees of typically 1.6% to 2.5% of the estate; assets held in a revocable trust skip both.

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What Does Estate Planning Actually Cost?

An attorney-prepared revocable trust in Mississippi runs $3,680 to $5,520 and a simple will $849 to $1,698, against $0 to $549 up front plus a subscription with an online service.

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How Much Does Probate Cost?

Probate on a $500,000 estate in Mississippi costs an estimated $23,712. Attorney fees run 1.6% to 2.5% of the estate under a reasonable-compensation standard.

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Are My Beneficiary Designations Protected?

Mississippi automatically revokes an ex-spouse as beneficiary at divorce; employer plans under ERISA follow federal rules either way, so a 401(k) beneficiary changes only by a new designation.

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What Are the Estate Laws in My State?

Probate on a $500,000 estate in Mississippi costs an estimated $23,712 and takes 6 months to 12 months for a simple estate, with attorney fees of typically 1.6% to 2.5% of the estate. Estates under $75,000 can use a small-estate procedure instead.

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