Estate of Justin v. Smith

RANDOLPH, Presiding Justice,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Following a final order from the Chancery Court of Lincoln County that Halley Smith is not a wrongful-death beneficiary of Justin Smith, Halley appeals and *510asks this Court to judicially declare that an in loco parentis child qualifies as a wrongful-death beneficiary under Mississippi Code Section 11-7-13. Halley argues that “[pjublic policy and the best interests of Mississippi children demand that in loco parentis children should be included as wrongful death beneficiaries of their psue-do-parent.”1 Finding that an in loco par-entis child does…