§ 36-2-401 Single means of establishing parentage – Legislative intent
§ 36-2-402 Part definitions
§ 36-2-403 Establishing embryo parentage – Relinquishment of rights and responsibilities

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 36 > Chapter 2 > Part 4 - Parentage of Children Born of Donated Embryo Transfer

  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Donor: The person who makes a gift.
  • Embryo parentage: means the acceptance of rights and responsibilities for an embryo by a recipient intended parent. See Tennessee Code 36-2-402
  • Embryo transfer: means the medical procedure of physically placing an embryo into the uterus of a female recipient intended parent. See Tennessee Code 36-2-402
  • Highway: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • human embryo: means an individual fertilized ovum of the human species from the single-cell stage to eight-week development. See Tennessee Code 36-2-402
  • Legal embryo custodian: means the person or entity, including an embryo transfer clinic, who hold the legal rights and responsibilities for a human embryo and who relinquishes said embryo to another person. See Tennessee Code 36-2-402
  • legal transfer of rights to an embryo: means the relinquishment of rights and responsibilities by the person or persons who hold the legal rights and responsibilities for an embryo. See Tennessee Code 36-2-402
  • License: means the license issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
  • Manufacturer: means and includes a brewer of high alcohol content beer, distiller, vintner and rectifier. See Tennessee Code 57-3-101
  • Parent: means the biological mother or biological father of a child, regardless of the marital status of the mother and father. See Tennessee Code 36-2-302
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Recipient intended parent: means a person or persons who receive a relinquished embryo and who accepts full legal rights and responsibilities for such embryo and any child that may be born as a result of embryo transfer. See Tennessee Code 36-2-402
  • signed: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed, or any other symbol or methodology executed or adopted by a party with intention to authenticate a writing or record, regardless of being witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • written: includes printing, typewriting, engraving, lithography, and any other mode of representing words and letters. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Year: means a calendar year, unless otherwise expressed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105