In re the Guardianship of the Estate of Lewis

ROBERTS, J.,

for the Court:

¶ 1. Mississippi Code Annotated section 93-13-281 (Miss.2004) requires that “two adult kin within the third degree” shall be joined and properly noticed in any action to establish a guardianship. A guardianship was established for Frank Lewis by order of the Chancery Court of Newton County, but there is no evidence in the record that two of his adult kin were given notice of the hearing or present. Therefore, we must reverse the chancellor’s establishment of a guardianship. However, we stay the effects of our reversal and remand this case to the chancery court for…