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Mississippi has always permitted adoption by an unmarried adult without regard to sexual orientation. Couples of the same gender were not able to adopt jointly as a result of the state passing a law banning adoption and fostering by same-sex couples in 2000. By 2015, Mississippi was the only state that continued to enforce such a ban. [11] [12]
A birth certificate is normally produced along with proof of identity, such as a driver's license or the testimony of a third party (such as a parent), to establish identity or entitlement to a service. A child born abroad to two U.S. citizen parents, or one citizen parent and one non-citizen, also typically has citizenship from birth.
Williams v. Mississippi, 170 U.S. 213 (1898), is a United States Supreme Court case that reviewed provisions of the 1890 Mississippi constitution and its statutes that set requirements for voter registration, including poll tax, literacy tests, the grandfather clause, and the requirement that only registered voters could serve on juries.
The new Buc-ee's travel center, a first for Mississippi, that is in the works for Pass Christian didn't come about overnight.. The 74,000-square-foot facility-to-be has been nearly four years in ...
Mississippi does not have either an estate tax or an inheritance tax, but there are other things you need to know about the state's inheritance laws, including what happens if you die without a ...
It asserted that any person with even one ancestor of African ancestry ("one drop" of "black blood") [1] [2] is considered black (Negro or colored in historical terms). It is an example of hypodescent , the automatic assignment of children of a mixed union between different socioeconomic or ethnic groups to the group with the lower status ...
Mississippi lawmakers heard testimony Wednesday from in and out-of-state election experts that in-person early voting could be implemented with circuit clerks and would increase voter turnout.
A Praxis test is one of a series of American teacher certification exams written and administered by the Educational Testing Service. Various Praxis tests are usually required before, during, and after teacher training courses in the U.S. To be a teacher in about half of the states in the US, the Praxis test is required.