How Much Does a Will Cost in Mississippi? (2026)

Updated September 3, 2026. Quick answer for Mississippi: nobody publishes a reliable, state-specific median for what a will costs here, and the figures you will see quoted, including ours, are national. Anyone showing you a precise Mississippi number is estimating. What is genuinely Mississippi-specific, and what actually decides whether your will works, is how it has to be executed.

The honest position on Mississippi pricing

We publish a national attorney median for a simple will of $625 (middle 50% $450–$1,000) and a DIY platform range of $129–$599. Attorney figures are the national medians from the LegalTemplates 2026 survey of 909 firms, verified July 23, 2026. They are national, not state-specific. Geographic multipliers are widely republished, but the primary source for them blocks automated verification, so we will not apply one to Mississippi and present the result as a Mississippi figure. When a defensible state-level dataset exists, this page will carry it and say where it came from.

What Mississippi law actually requires

This is the part that is genuinely state-specific, and the part that decides whether the document works at all. Every line below is read from the statute, with the citation attached:

• Witnesses: 2. Miss. Code Ann. §§ 91-5-1, 91-5-9
• If a beneficiary witnesses it: Purging statute: Miss. Code Ann. § 91-5-9: if a witness also receives a devise and the will can’t otherwise be proven, that gift is void; the witness keeps any intestate-share value up to the voided gift’s amount.
• Notary required for the will to be valid: No
• Handwritten wills: Recognized: Miss. Code Ann. § 91-5-1 requires two witnesses only ‘if not wholly written and subscribed by’ the testator; a fully handwritten, signed will needs no attesting witnesses.
• Electronic wills: No

The full 44-jurisdiction comparison is on what each state requires for a will to be valid.

Does Mississippi give you a free form?

No. We found no complete statutory will form in the Mississippi code. California, Maine, Michigan, New Mexico and Wisconsin each print one in their own codes. In Mississippi your realistic routes are a DIY platform, a flat-fee attorney will, or an hourly engagement if the estate is complicated.

What skipping it costs in Mississippi

A will does not avoid probate: it directs it. What it prevents is the estate being distributed by Mississippi’s intestacy statute instead of by you, and it lets you name the executor rather than leaving the court to appoint one.

What a will costs nationally: every route priced, and the four situations where DIY fails.

Also for Mississippi: Mississippi Small Estate Affidavit · Mississippi Power of Attorney Requirements.

Statutory text read at the state’s own legislature or official code site. Pricing figures are national and dated above. General information, not legal advice.