Jeramie J. Fortenberry, the firm’s founder, was recently appointed by Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann to sit on the Trust Laws Study Group, a subsection of the 2009 Business Reform Study Group.
The Trust Laws Study Group will work under the guidance of the Policy & Research Division is responsible for reviewing and updating Mississippi’s business laws, as well as other laws related to the Secretary of State’s mission. The Trust Laws Study Group is composed of business professionals, attorneys, CPAs and members of the state legislature and judiciary, among others.
The purpose of the Trust Law Study Group is to study the area of Trust law and make recommendations on various policy proposals to the Mississippi legislature. The Secretary of State’s Policy & Research Division will then prepare proposed legislation based on the Trust Law Study Group’s recommendations and meet with state legislators to educate them on the proposals, with a goal of adopting the proposals as Mississippi law.
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