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Miss. Code Ann. § 43-21-601

Scheduling of disposition hearing

Known as the Youth Court Law

The act spans §§ 43–43 (102 sections).

Applied in 7 court decisions — leading case 481 So. 2d 280 - In Interest of WRA (1985)

Most recently applied in In the Interest of J.T. v. Hinds County Youth Court (April 2016)

Laws, 1979, ch. 506, § 64, eff from and after July 1, 1979.

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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.

(1) If the child has been adjudicated a delinquent child, a child in need of supervision, a neglected child or an abused child, the youth court shall immediately set a time and place for a disposition hearing which shall be separate, distinct and subsequent to the adjudicatory hearing. The disposition hearing, however, may be held immediately following the adjudicatory hearing unless a continuance is necessary to allow the parties to prepare for their participation in the proceedings.

(2) If the child has been taken into custody, a disposition hearing shall be held within fourteen (14) days after the adjudicatory hearing unless good cause be shown for postponement.

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.