This is a summary of the new legislation affecting family-law attorneys in Tennessee.
How can parentage of a child conceived through artificial insemination be determined in Tennessee?
Who can intervene in a pending termination of parental rights and adoption in Tennessee?
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What time periods apply to terminating parents’ rights on grounds of wanton disregard in Tennessee?
Can a parent terminate the other parent’s parental rights in Tennessee?
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How is the four-month period determined when terminating parenting rights in Tennessee?
How can paternity be disestablished in Tennessee?
Three months after the Department of Children’s Services announced it had ended the practice of taking abused and neglected kids to state offices overnight, solutions are proving difficult to sustain as several faith-based shelters have closed and some kids remain in hospitals for lack of other options.
When the best-interest factors change during a child-custody or parental-termination case, which factors apply in Tennessee?
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Anti-abortion groups helped write and pass laws that kicked in to ban abortion when Roe v. Wade was overturned. The groups see Tennessee’s ban as the country’s strongest — and they want to keep it that way, according to audio reviewed by ProPublica.
What is required to prove “severe child abuse” in a Tennessee case to terminate parental rights?
Finding of No Grounds to Terminate Parental Rights Reversed in Pulaski, Tennessee: In re Isabella G.
When can parental rights be terminated in Tennessee because of the parent’s failure to visit or pay child support?