Terms Used In Tennessee Code 34-1-128

  • Conservatorship: is a proceeding in which a court removes the decision-making powers and duties, in whole or in part, in a least restrictive manner, from a person with a disability who lacks capacity to make decisions in one or more important areas and places responsibility for one or more of those decisions in a conservator or co-conservators. See Tennessee Code 34-1-101
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.

The clerk shall maintain on all guardianship and conservatorship cases the same type docket books, files, minute books, and other records as in all other cases. In addition, the clerk shall maintain an appropriate index or tickler so that reporting deadlines established in §§ 34-1-110 and 34-1-111 and the like are easily ascertainable. The clerk shall issue the notices and summons described in §§ 34-1-110 and 34-1-111 to each delinquent fiduciary.