The appellate courts in Tennessee issue a lot of family law opinions that don’t make it onto the blog for one reason or another. My…
Facts: The parties divorced after nearly 20 years of marriage. Husband was a physician with his own family medical practice. Wife was a stay-at-home mother.…
Facts: Early in the parties’ divorce proceeding, they entered an agreed temporary order setting Father’s child support based upon his projected income of $75,000 per…
Facts: The parties divorced. Mother was named the primary residential parent. Father was ordered to pay child support. About a year after the divorce, the…
Facts: The parties divorced after 16 years of marriage. They entered an agreed parenting plan that designated Mother as the primary residential parent and established…
Facts: The parties divorced after 16 years of marriage. They entered an agreed parenting plan that designated Mother as the primary residential parent and established…
Facts: Mother and Father, both physicians, were divorced, and Father was ordered to pay child support of $2500 per month. Father was later found in…
Facts: Mother and Father, both physicians, were divorced, and Father was ordered to pay child support of $2500 per month. Father was later found in…
Facts: Mother and Father are the never-married parents of Child. After separating several years after Child’s birth, the trial court established paternity, a residential co-parenting…
Facts: When Father and Mother divorced, Father was ordered to pay child support for Child. At various times throughout various post-divorce child support hearings, the…
Facts: Mother and Father are the unmarried parents of Child. After paternity and child support were established, the trial court entered the first order awarding…
Facts: Mother received child support enforcement services from the State of Tennessee. The State, acting on mother’s behalf, filed a petition to establish paternity against…
Facts: In a post-divorce petition, Husband sought to modify his child support obligation to reflect the emancipation of the parties’ oldest child. Wife counter-petitioned for…
Facts: After the Department of Children’s Services proved that Children were dependent and neglected in the care of Mother and Father, the trial court granted…
Facts: Mother and Father are the unmarried parents of Child. Mother petitioned the court to establish child support. At the hearing, Father failed to produce…