Terms Used In Tennessee Code 34-1-120

  • Fiduciary: means a guardian, coguardian, conservator, co-conservator, or qualified trustee as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
  • Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age and who has not otherwise been emancipated. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Person: means any individual, nonhuman entity or governmental agency. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Person with a disability: means any person eighteen (18) years of age or older determined by the court to be in need of partial or full supervision, protection, and assistance by reason of mental illness, physical illness or injury, developmental disability, or other mental or physical incapacity. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Personal representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Representative: when applied to those who represent a decedent, includes executors and administrators, unless the context implies heirs and distributees. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.

No personal representative of an estate, any part of which is distributable to a minor, except a parent, grandparent, sibling of the minor or person named by the testator to be guardian, shall be appointed the fiduciary for the minor until the personal representative has first settled its accounts as personal representative. No personal representative of an estate, any part of which is distributable to a person with a disability, except a parent, spouse, child, grandchild, grandparent or sibling of the person with a disability, shall be appointed the fiduciary for the person with a disability until the personal representative has first settled its accounts as personal representative.