Miss. Code Ann. § 85-3-27

The declaration, for not more than one hundred sixty (160) acres, and not exceeding in value Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00); or, if the homestead be in a city, town or village, not exceeding in value Seventy-five Thousand Dollars ($75,000.00) after being filed for record, shall be notice to all persons to be affected thereby; and shall bind the exemptionist, the spouse of the exemptionist if the exemptionist be married, and the creditors of the exemptionist until the exemptionist shall execute and file a new declaration which shall nullify the preceding one, and otherwise have like effect; and shall moreover entitle the exemptionist thereafter to hold the same as exempt to the extent of such value; but subject to contest and legal designation or allotment, if the exemptionist had declared for too much, or has insufficiently or improperly described the premises; and to contest by creditors on the ground that the exemptionist was not entitled to a homestead, and by the spouse of the exemptionist on the ground that it was intended to defraud or circumvent such spouse.