2018 Mississippi Code
Title 93 - Domestic Relations
Chapter 13 - Guardians and Conservators
Incompetent Persons, Convicts, Drunkards and Drug Addicts
§ 93-13-135. Offenders; appointment of guardian; when guardianship to cease; appointment of guardian to make health-care decisions.
(1) When any offender shall be sentenced to the Penitentiary for a year or longer, the chancery court of the county of his residence, or where any of his property may be, may appoint a guardian, who shall take charge of the real and personal estate of the offender. The guardianship shall cease when the term of imprisonment shall expire or the offender dies; and so much of the estate of the offender as may be then in the hands of his guardian, shall be restored to him, or his legal representatives in case of his death, the guardian having such reasonable allowance therefrom for his services as the court may deem proper.
(2) A chancery court of the county of residence of an offender who is a resident of Mississippi may appoint a guardian to make health-care decisions for the offender. Process shall be served as provided in Section 93-13-281, unless joined in by that person or those persons prescribed in that section. The health-care guardianship shall cease when the offender’s term of imprisonment expires or the offender dies. A guardian appointed under this subsection shall make and file annual accounts of the health-care decisions made on behalf of the offender.
