This chapter shall be liberally construed to the end that each child coming within the jurisdiction of the youth court shall become a responsible, accountable and productive citizen, and that each such child shall receive such care, guidance and control, preferably in such child’s own home as is conducive toward that end and is in the state’s and the child’s best interest. It is the public policy of this state that the parents of each child shall be primarily responsible for the care, support, education and welfare of such children; however, when it is necessary that a child be removed from the control of such child’s parents, the youth court shall secure proper care for such child.
Miss. Code Ann. § 43-21-103
Construction and purpose
Known as the Youth Court Law
The act spans §§ 43–43 (102 sections).
Applied in 13 court decisions — leading case 658 So. 2d 1378 - In Interest of RD (1995)
Most recently applied in E.K. v. Mississippi Department of Child Protection Services (August 2018)
Laws, 1979, ch. 506, § 2; Laws, 1980, ch. 550, § 1; Laws, 1989, ch. 441, § 1, eff from and after July 1, 1989.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.