Mississippi Code
Miss. Code Ann. § 93-3-3 (2026)
May sue each other
✓ current as of July 2026
Husband and wife may sue each other.
Codes, 1880, § 1168; 1892, § 2290; 1906, § 2518; Hemingway's 1917, § 2052; 1930, § 1941; 1942, § 452.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5
cases, 1976–1994 · leading case: Ferguson v. Ferguson, 639 So. 2d 921 (Miss. 1994).
Ferguson v. Ferguson, 639 So. 2d 921 (Miss. 1994). “Miss. Code Ann. § 93-3-3 (1972). Similarly, the division of assets acquired during the course of a marriage is a matter for the legislature, whose task it is to make the law.”
Burns v. Burns, 518 So. 2d 1205 (Miss. 1988). “" Additionally, section 2518, Code of 1906, [ Miss. Code Ann. § 93-3-3 (1972)] provides that husband and wife may sue each other.”
Trigg v. Trigg, 498 So. 2d 334 (Miss. 1986). “To remove any doubt that the statute means what it says and that it applies in cases such as this, Section 93-3-3 provides "husband and wife may sue each other.”
Johnson v. Johnson, 550 So. 2d 416 (Miss. 1989). “" Section 93-3-3 then provides that "husband and wife may sue each other.”
Merritt v. State, 339 So. 2d 1366 (Miss. 1976). “[ Miss. Code Ann. § 93-3-3 (1972)]. Dower and curtesy were abolished the same year.”
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