Jamison v. Williams

¶ 21. I respectfully dissent from the majority’s opinion, and I would affirm the chancellor’s judgment. In his opinion, the chancellor found the present case akin to In re Estate of Thomas, 883 So.2d 1173 (Miss.2004), since the administrator in both cases failed to provide notice of the administration of the intestate’s estate to the illegitimate heir. An administrator of an estate possesses “a duty to use reasonable diligence to ascertain potential heirs.” Id. at 1177 (¶ 12).2 Administrators also possess the duty to “provide notice to known or reasonably ascertainable illegitimate children…