Current through the 2024 Regular Session
Section 91-25-21 - Action to determine or enforce chapter(a) The chancery court has jurisdiction and all power necessary to make the prorations and the orders directing the payment of amounts of tax contemplated by this chapter.(b) Such jurisdiction may be invoked by petition filed in the chancery court by an executor, administrator, temporary administrator, trustee or other person acting in a fiduciary capacity, transferee, beneficiary of the gross estate, or any other person having such an interest as may in the judgment of the chancery court entitle such person to file such a petition.(c) The chancery court, upon making a determination as provided in this chapter, shall make a decree or order directing the executor, administrator or other fiduciary to charge the prorated amounts against the persons against whom the tax has been so prorated, insofar as such person is in possession of property or interests of such persons against whom such charge has been made, and summarily directing all other persons against whom the tax has been so prorated or who are in possession of property or interests of such persons to make payment of such prorated amounts to such executor, administrator or other fiduciary or to another person who has paid such tax.Added by Laws, 2020, ch. 406, SB 2851,§ 43, eff. 7/1/2020.