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Updated September 24, 2026. Quick answer: LegalTemplates surveyed 909 law firms in 2026 and found Mississippi attorneys charging a median $2,250 for a revocable living trust, $1,850 to $2,600 for the middle half. That makes Mississippi the cheapest median of the 20 states compared here, and it comes in under the $2,475 national median. A DIY platform runs $149 to $649. What that spend buys locally: Mississippi’s statutory base is $85.00; Jackson County charges $184.00 total once its own recording fee is added.
Whether the state taxes the trust’s income is a separate question: does Mississippi tax trust income.
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For reference against the national figures and the DIY floor:
| Figure | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mississippi trust-drafting median | $2,250 |
| Mississippi trust-drafting middle 50% | $1,850–$2,600 |
| National median, all 50 states and DC | $2,475 |
| DIY document platform range | $149–$649 |
Attorneys who bundle the trust into a fuller package (pour-over will, financial power of attorney, healthcare documents) charge a national median of $2,700 for that package. DIY document platforms run $149 to $649 and do not vary by state; the national living trust cost guide has the full platform comparison table (LegalZoom, Trust & Will, Quicken WillMaker, FreeWill) with what each one includes.
Attorney figures: LegalTemplates, September 24, 2026.
What a living trust avoids: probate in Mississippi
Here is the cost side of the ledger a trust is meant to avoid in Mississippi. Mississippi’s statutory base is $85.00; Jackson County charges $184.00 total once its own recording fee is added. Full filing-fee breakdown.
Mississippi publishes no percentage schedule for probate compensation; the personal representative and the attorney are each paid what the court finds reasonable (Miss. Code §91-7-299), so the bill tracks hours worked rather than the size of the estate. The second number is the small-estate threshold, at or under which an estate skips most of probate: $75,000, net of liens, by successor’s affidavit. Whether any of that reaches a solely owned house is answered below; it is where most published guidance goes wrong. Full Mississippi probate cost guide, and the threshold below which probate is skipped by affidavit, trust or not.
Funding the trust in Mississippi
Owning a trust and funding it are two different jobs. For a house, funding means recording a new deed. Funding the trust in Mississippi is free on the transfer-tax side: the state levies no real estate transfer, deed-recordation, or documentary-stamp tax at all, so a deed moving your home into your own revocable trust is not taxed on that front. Mississippi also has no Proposition-13-style change-in-ownership reassessment system; instead, per the Mississippi Department of Revenue, county tax assessors revalue real property on a fixed cycle of at least once every four years regardless of who holds title. The new deed still has to be recorded with the county chancery clerk for a modest per-page fee set by statute, as one county chancery clerk’s own recording-fee page describes.
Is a living trust worth it in Mississippi?
The trade comes down to the $2,250 spent now against the court costs avoided later, plus a private, faster transfer that a will alone does not provide. The full worth-it analysis for Mississippi walks through the same trade using your own property and numbers.
Sources
- LegalTemplates, 2026 Estate Planning Costs in the US (909 firms, read September 24, 2026).
- Mississippi probate filing fee, Mississippi probate cost, national living trust cost guide (Clear Money Guide).
- Statute/agency source, transfer-tax/recording source