Who is a “grandparent” under Tennessee’s grandparent-visitation law?
What constitutes significant interference with a parent’s attempts to exercise visitation or pay child support in Tennessee?
Studies show open adoptions are largely beneficial. Children are less inclined to blame themselves, or to idolize their birthparents and demonize their adoptive parents. There is also the advantage of knowing family and medical histories.
What is a “willful” failure to visit that may result in the termination of parental rights in Tennessee?
Should politicians be allowed to intervene personally in a Tennessee divorce?
Facts: Mother and Father are the parents of three children. After one child was found to be severely malnourished, i.e., starving, all three children were…
This article by Elizabeth Harris in The New York Times will be of interest. Same-sex parents in Tennessee can relate. Same-Sex Parents Still Face Legal…
Facts: Mother is the biological mother of two children aged 3 and 4. At the time of their births, Mother was unmarried and resided with…
Facts: Mother and Father are the unmarried parents of two children. The parents eventually separated, and Father returned to his family home in Louisiana. An…
Facts: Mother was designated the primary residential parent of Child when she and Father divorced. Years later, Father obtained emergency temporary custody because Mother was…