Access the Tunica County Chancery Clerk

About the Tunica County Chancery Clerk

Rechelle Siggers is the elected Tunica County Chancery Clerk. In Mississippi the chancery clerk is a constitutional county officer chosen by voters, and the same official also serves as secretary to the county Board of Supervisors. Siggers therefore wears two hats. She is the clerk for Chancery Court, and she is the keeper of the Board of Supervisors minutes and much of the county's official record.

The office serves Chancery Court, which is Mississippi's court of equity. A court of equity decides what is fair rather than handing down a jury's money verdict. Probate of wills, estate administration, guardianships, conservatorships, divorces, and many land and equity disputes all move through this court. The Chancery Clerk files those papers, keeps the case books, certifies copies, and collects the fees set for each service. The county departments roster lists the Chancery Clerk as a standing county office.

What the Chancery Clerk Handles in Tunica County

Mississippi splits county court records between two elected clerks, so it helps to know who holds what. The Chancery Clerk serves Chancery Court and the Board of Supervisors. The other clerk, the Tunica County Circuit Clerk, serves Circuit Court and handles felony criminal cases, Circuit Court civil filings, juries, elections, and marriage licenses. A divorce file sits with the Chancery Clerk. A marriage license sits with the Circuit Clerk. Sending a request to the wrong office is one of the most common reasons a search stalls.

Within Chancery Court, the clerk's duties run across both family and property law. The work is recordkeeping and certification, not legal advice, and the office cannot tell a filer how to handle a case. Questions about strategy or whether to file belong with an attorney.

The dual role as Board of Supervisors secretary also gives this office custody of county government records that touch land and money. Board minutes, county orders, and land instruments often connect back to chancery files, which is why a single office holds both the equity court records and the county's official book of business.

• Open and maintain probate and estate case files.
• Docket guardianships and conservatorships for minors and incapacitated adults.
• File divorce and other domestic equity matters heard in Chancery Court.
• Record land, deed, and equity instruments tied to chancery matters.
• Issue certified copies of chancery orders, letters, and decrees.
• Keep the minutes and official record of the Board of Supervisors.

Records Kept by the Tunica County Chancery Clerk

The chancery file is where Mississippi keeps the paper trail for estates and families. Because there is no separate probate court in the state, every probate and estate matter for the county runs through Chancery Court and lands in the Chancery Clerk's books. Most of these records are public, though parts of a file can be sealed or redacted when minors, adoptions, or protected personal data are involved.

The categories below show the spread of documents the office holds. A single estate can generate several of them over the months it stays open.

• Wills and petitions to admit a will to probate.
• Estate administration files, inventories, and accountings.
• Letters testamentary and letters of administration.
• Creditor notices, claims, and orders approving distribution.
• Guardianship and conservatorship petitions and orders.
• Divorce decrees and domestic equity judgments.
• Small-estate and successor-affidavit documents where they apply.

Mississippi describes Chancery Court as the court for equity, domestic relations, and minor's business, which is why probate and family records cluster here rather than with the felony trial court.

How to Request a Chancery or Probate Record

Most file copies come through the Chancery Clerk by phone, by mail, or at the office counter. There is no separate official Chancery Clerk website with an online order cart, so plan to deal with the office directly. The steps below keep a request moving.

1. Pin down the case. Note the decedent or party name, the type of matter, and a case number if one is known. A year of filing also narrows the search.
2. Confirm the office holds it. Estate, guardianship, conservatorship, and divorce files are chancery records; criminal and marriage-license records are not, so route those elsewhere.
3. Contact the Chancery Clerk at 662-363-2451 or write to P.O. Box 217, Tunica, MS 38676, and describe the record and how many copies you need.
4. Ask whether you need a plain copy or a certified copy. Banks, title companies, and other courts usually require the certified version with the clerk's seal.
5. Confirm the current fee and accepted payment method before you send anything, since the office sets and collects those charges.
6. Arrange pickup or mail delivery, and allow extra time for older files that may sit in archived storage.

Chancery and Probate Terms Defined

Chancery paperwork carries words that rarely come up anywhere else. A quick read of the core terms makes a file easier to understand before a call to the clerk.

Testator

The person who makes a will and whose estate is later probated.

Executor

The person named in a will to gather assets, pay debts, and distribute the estate under court supervision.

Intestate

Dying without a valid will, which sends the estate through administration under Mississippi's descent and distribution rules.

Guardianship

A chancery arrangement giving someone legal authority over a minor or that minor's property.

Conservatorship

A chancery arrangement protecting an adult who cannot manage personal or financial affairs.

Tunica County Chancery Clerk Fees

A published Chancery Clerk fee schedule for probate filings and certified copies was not posted by the office at the time of research, so no fee table appears here. Confirm the current cost of a filing, a plain copy, and a certified copy directly with the Chancery Clerk at 662-363-2451 before you mail a payment. Mississippi public bodies are allowed to charge reasonable fees connected with providing records, and the clerk sets the chancery amounts.

Some estates may avoid a full court process. Mississippi Code Section 91-7-322 sets out a successor-affidavit path for delivering or paying over certain property of a small estate without a formal administration. Whether that route fits a given estate depends on the assets and the current statute, so the safest step is to ask the Chancery Clerk which forms and fees apply before filing anything.

Note: Certified copies carry the clerk's seal and are the version banks, title companies, and other courts accept, so order those when a copy must be used in a legal or financial transaction.

Ways to Reach the Records

The Chancery Clerk is the front door for file copies, but it is not the only useful channel. Hearing dates and chancellor calendars come from the district court site, and registered attorneys reach filings electronically. Pairing the docket with a clerk request is the fastest way to place a case and then pull its papers.

The Seventh Chancery Court District posts a Tunica docket page with a master docket and a search-by-date calendar. It is built for hearing context rather than full file copies, so use it to find when and before whom a matter is set, then ask the clerk for the documents. The same approach works for an estate, a guardianship, or a Tunica County probate matter that already has a hearing on the calendar.

Mississippi Electronic Courts, or MEC, is the statewide e-filing and case-management system that covers Chancery, Circuit, and County Courts. Detailed case access through MEC is tied to registration, so it is not an open public search, and free document downloads are not promised. For administrative county records that fall outside court files, the Mississippi Public Records Act sets the process for inspection and copies.

The Seventh Chancery Court District

Tunica County does not have its own standalone chancellor. It sits in the Seventh Chancery Court District, which also covers Bolivar, Coahoma, Leflore, Quitman, and Tallahatchie counties. Three chancellors ride the district and hear the estates, guardianships, conservatorships, and divorces filed through the Tunica Chancery Clerk. Knowing the chancellors helps when a docket entry lists a judge by name.

The chancellors who serve the district are listed below. The Chancery Clerk's office in Tunica remains the contact for file copies regardless of which chancellor is assigned to a case.

For a probate or estate file, start with the Chancery Clerk at 662-363-2451, check the Seventh Chancery docket for any hearing context, and request certified copies of the orders or letters you need for a bank, a land transfer, or estate administration.