Tennessee Code > Title 36 > Chapter 5 – Alimony and Child Support


Part 1	General Provisions	36-5-101 – 36-5-122
Part 4	Expedited Process for Support	36-5-401 – 36-5-406
Part 5	Assignment of Income for Support	36-5-501 – 36-5-502
Part 7	Enforcement Through License Denial, Revocation and Restriction	36-5-701 – 36-5-714
Part 8	Child Support Enforcement Powers of Department	36-5-801 – 36-5-816
Part 9	Overdue Support	36-5-901 – 36-5-912
Part 10	Appeals	36-5-1001 – 36-5-1006
Part 11	Employment Records	36-5-1101 – 36-5-1108
Part 12	Assistance by Other States	36-5-1201
Part 13	Social Security Number Records	36-5-1301 – 36-5-1302
Part 20	Uniform Interstate Family Support Act–short Title	36-5-2001
Part 21	Uniform Interstate Family Support Act — General Provisions	36-5-2101 – 36-5-2104
Part 22	Uniform Interstate Family Support Act — Jurisdiction	36-5-2201 – 36-5-2211
Part 23	Uniform Interstate Family Support Act — Civil Provisions of General Application	36-5-2301 – 36-5-2319
Part 24	Uniform Interstate Family Support Act — Establishment of Support Order or Determination of Parentage	36-5-2401 – 36-5-2402
Part 25	Uniform Interstate Family Support Act — Enforcement of Order Without Registration	36-5-2501 – 36-5-2507
Part 26	Uniform Interstate Family Support Act — Registration, Enforcement, and Modification of Support Order	36-5-2601 – 36-5-2616
Part 27	Support Proceeding Under Convention	36-5-2701 – 36-5-2713
Part 28	Uniform Interstate Family Support Act — Interstate Rendition	36-5-2801 – 36-5-2802
Part 29	Uniform Interstate Family Support Act — Miscellaneous Provisions	36-5-2901 – 36-5-2903
Part 30	Intercounty Enforcement and Modification	36-5-3001 – 36-5-3009
Part 31	Enforcement Without Transfer of Jurisdiction	36-5-3101 – 36-5-3111

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 36 > Chapter 5 - Alimony and Child Support

Adjusted RBC Report: means an RBC report that has been adjusted by the commissioner in accordance with §. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
Advice and consent: Under the Constitution, presidential nominations for executive and judicial posts take effect only when confirmed by the Senate, and international treaties become effective only when the Senate approves them by a two-thirds vote.
Affidavit: A written statement of facts confirmed by the oath of the party making it, before a notary or officer having authority to administer oaths.
affiliate: means any entity that exercises control over or is controlled by the HMO, directly or indirectly through:
1. Equity ownership of voting securities. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
2. Age of majority: means eighteen (18) years of age or older. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
3. Allegation: something that someone says happened.
4. Amendment: A proposal to alter the text of a pending bill or other measure by striking out some of it, by inserting new language, or both. Before an amendment becomes part of the measure, thelegislature must agree to it.
5. Annuity: A periodic (usually annual) payment of a fixed sum of money for either the life of the recipient or for a fixed number of years. A series of payments under a contract from an insurance company, a trust company, or an individual. Annuity payments are made at regular intervals over a period of more than one full year.
6. Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
7. Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
8. Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
9. Applicant: means :
  1. In the case of an individual long-term care insurance policy, the person who seeks to contract for benefits. See Tennessee Code 56-42-103
  2. Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  3. Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  4. Arrears: means any child support or spousal support associated with a child support order owed under a court or administrative order that is delinquent pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
  5. Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
  6. Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  7. Associate: includes any:
    1. Employee of a producer of title insurance business. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
    2. Association: means the Tennessee property and casualty insurance association. See Tennessee Code 56-41-101
    3. Attachment: A procedure by which a person's property is seized to pay judgments levied by the court.
    4. Attorney: means the person designated and authorized by subscribers as the attorney-in-fact having authority to obligate them on reciprocal insurance contracts. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
    5. Attorney-in-fact: A person who, acting as an agent, is given written authorization by another person to transact business for him (her) out of court.
    6. Authorized Control Level RBC: means the number determined under the risk-based capital formula in accordance with the RBC Instructions. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
    7. Bankruptcy: Refers to statutes and judicial proceedings involving persons or businesses that cannot pay their debts and seek the assistance of the court in getting a fresh start. Under the protection of the bankruptcy court, debtors may discharge their debts, perhaps by paying a portion of each debt. Bankruptcy judges preside over these proceedings.
    8. basic health care services: includes , but is not limited to, services made necessary as the result of Title XIX federal programs or waivers for which TennCare is primarily responsible for implementation or enforcement. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
    9. Beneficiary: A person who is entitled to receive the benefits or proceeds of a will, trust, insurance policy, retirement plan, annuity, or other contract. ^{Source: OCC}
    10. Bonds: means bonds or interim certificates issued pending preparation or delivery of definitive bonds of a local government issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
    11. Certificate: means any certificate issued under a group long-term care insurance policy, which policy has been delivered or issued for delivery in this state. See Tennessee Code 56-42-103
    12. Child: means a person entitled to support from such person's parents by virtue of such person's minority or who is entitled to support as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-401
    13. Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
    14. Child support order: means a support order for a child, including a child who has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state or foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
    15. Clerk: means the clerk of the transferor or transferee court, or the clerk of any court who has been designated by either of those courts to collect support payments for such court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
    16. Clerk: means the clerk of the original or registering court, or the clerk of any court who has been designated by either of those courts to collect support payments for such court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
    17. Clerk of court: An officer appointed by the court to work with the chief judge in overseeing the court's administration, especially to assist in managing the flow of cases through the court and to maintain court records.
    18. Code: includes the Tennessee Code and all amendments and revisions to the code and all additions and supplements to the code. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
    19. Coinsurance: means an enrollee's share of covered medical expenses when an enrollee and the HMO share in a specific ratio of the covered medical expenses. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
    20. Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-30-102
    21. Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance, and includes all deputies legally appointed and constituted to act in the commissioner's place and stead by other applicable law of the state. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
    22. Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
    23. Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
    24. Commissioner: means the commissioner of financial institutions. See Tennessee Code 56-37-102
    25. Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-42-103
    26. Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-43-103
    27. Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance or the commissioner, director or superintendent of insurance in any other state. See Tennessee Code 56-45-102
    28. Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
    29. Commissioner: means the commissioner of human services. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
    30. Commissioner: means the commissioner of human services or the commissioner's duly authorized representative. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
    31. Common law: The legal system that originated in England and is now in use in the United States. It is based on judicial decisions rather than legislative action.
    32. Company Action Level RBC: means , with respect to any insurer, the product of 2. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
    33. Complaint: A written statement by the plaintiff stating the wrongs allegedly committed by the defendant.
    34. Completed operations liability: means liability arising out of the installation, maintenance, or repair of any product at a site that is not owned or controlled by:
      1. Any person who performs that work. See Tennessee Code 56-45-102
      2. Construction: means building, reconstruction, erection, replacement, extension, repairing, betterment, equipment, development, embellishment, improvement, acquisition by gift, lease, purchase or the exercise of the right of eminent domain, or any one (1) or more or all of the foregoing, including the acquisition of land and of rights in land, and including acquisition of all of the outstanding capital stock of any corporation whose assets consist entirely of one (1) or more public works projects which together constitute a waterworks, sewer system, natural gas system, electric system, or any combination thereof, including, but not limited to, a water, sewer, natural gas and/or electric distribution system, or any combination thereof, serving a local government and assets related to the operation thereof and whose liabilities consist entirely of those related to the ownership and operation thereof. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
      3. Continuance: Putting off of a hearing ot trial until a later time.
      4. Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
      5. Controlled business: describes that portion of a title insurance company's, title insurance agent's or title insurance agency's business in this state with which there is connected in any way, directly or indirectly:
        
        Producers of title insurance business who have financial interests in the title insurance company, title insurance agent or title insurance agency. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
        Convention: means the Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance, concluded at The Hague on November 23, 2007. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
        Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
        Corrective order: means an order issued by the commissioner specifying corrective actions that the commissioner has determined are required. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        Corrective order: means an order issued by the commissioner specifying corrective actions which the commissioner has determined are required. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        Court: means , except as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
        Court: means a juvenile, circuit, or chancery court or other court of this state with jurisdiction to enter support or custody orders. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
        Credit bureau: An agency that collects individual credit information and sells it for a fee to creditors so they can make a decision on granting loans. Typical clients include banks, mortgage lenders, credit card companies, and other financing companies. (Also commonly referred to as consumer-reporting agency or credit-reporting agency.) ^{Source: OCC}
        Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
        Decedent: A deceased person.
        Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
        Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
        Dental service: means professional services rendered by persons duly licensed under the laws of this state to practice dentistry and all services defined as constituting the practice of dentistry as set out in title 63, chapter 5. See Tennessee Code 56-30-102
        Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
        Department: means the department of human services. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
        Department: means the department of human services or its contractor or other designee. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
        Department: means the department of human services or its contractor or designee. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
        Department: means the department of human services or its contractor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
        Dependent: A person dependent for support upon another.
        Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
        Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
        Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
        Domestic health organization: means a health organization domiciled in this state. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        Domestic insurer: means any insurance company domiciled in Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        Duty of support: means an obligation imposed or imposable by law to provide support for a child, spouse, or former spouse, including an unsatisfied obligation to provide support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Embezzlement: In most states, embezzlement is defined as theft/larceny of assets (money or property) by a person in a position of trust or responsibility over those assets. Embezzlement typically occurs in the employment and corporate settings. ^{Source: OCC}
        Employee: means an individual who is an employee within the meaning of Chapter 24 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (26 U. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
        Employer: has the meaning given such term in §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
        Enrollee: means an individual who is enrolled in an HMO. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
        Entitlement: A Federal program or provision of law that requires payments to any person or unit of government that meets the eligibility criteria established by law. Entitlements constitute a binding obligation on the part of the Federal Government, and eligible recipients have legal recourse if the obligation is not fulfilled. Social Security and veterans' compensation and pensions are examples of entitlement programs.
        Equitable: Pertaining to civil suits in "equity" rather than in "law." In English legal history, the courts of "law" could order the payment of damages and could afford no other remedy. See damages. A separate court of "equity" could order someone to do something or to cease to do something. See, e.g., injunction. In American jurisprudence, the federal courts have both legal and equitable power, but the distinction is still an important one. For example, a trial by jury is normally available in "law" cases but not in "equity" cases. ^{Source: U.S. Courts}
        Escrow: Money given to a third party to be held for payment until certain conditions are met.
        Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
        Evidence of coverage: means any certificate, agreement or contract issued to an enrollee setting out the coverage to which the enrollee is entitled. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
        Extradition: The formal process of delivering an accused or convicted person from authorities in one state to authorities in another state.
        Fair Credit Reporting Act: A federal law, established in 1971 and revised in 1997, that gives consumers the right to see their credit records and correct any mistakes. ^{Source: OCC}
        Federal agency: includes the United States, the president of the United States, or any agency, instrumentality or corporation of the United States, which has heretofore been or may hereafter be designated, created or authorized by or pursuant to any act or acts or joint resolutions of the congress of the United States, to make loans or grants, or which may be owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the United States. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        federally tax-qualified long-term care insurance contract: means an individual or group insurance contract that meets the requirements of §. See Tennessee Code 56-42-103
        Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
        Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
        Filing: means the initiation of judicial action by the completion of a motion or petition seeking to order the alteration of a legal status through the act of sending or bringing the motion or petition to the office of the clerk of the court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
        financial institution: means :
        
        A depository institution, as defined in Section 3(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U. See Tennessee Code 36-5-814
        financial institution: shall mean :
        
        A depository institution, as defined in Section 3(c) of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act (12 U. See Tennessee Code 36-5-910
        Financial interest: means any interest, legal or beneficial, such that the holder is or will be entitled to a share of the net profits or net worth of the business in which the interest is held. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
        Financial newspaper: means a financial newspaper, financial journal or other financial publication. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Fiscal year: The fiscal year is the accounting period for the government. For the federal government, this begins on October 1 and ends on September 30. The fiscal year is designated by the calendar year in which it ends; for example, fiscal year 2006 begins on October 1, 2005 and ends on September 30, 2006.
        Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. ^{Source: OCC}
        Foreign: when used without limitation, includes all companies formed by authority of any other state or government. See Tennessee Code 56-1-102
        Foreign country: means a country, including a political subdivision thereof, other than the United States, that authorizes the issuance of support orders and:
        
        Which has been declared under the law of the United States to be a foreign reciprocating country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Foreign health organization: means a health organization that is licensed to do business in this state under Chapters 27 28, 30, 31, 32 and 51 of this title but is not domiciled in this state. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        Foreign insurer: means any insurance company that is licensed to do business in Tennessee under this title but is not domiciled in Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        Foreign support order: means a support order of a foreign tribunal. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Foreign tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity of a foreign country which is authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
        Garnishment: Generally, garnishment is a court proceeding in which a creditor asks a court to order a third party who owes money to the debtor or otherwise holds assets belonging to the debtor to turn over to the creditor any of the debtor
        Governing body: means the legislative body of any local government of this state or any other authority charged with the governing of the affairs of any local government in this state. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Grace period: The number of days you'll have to pay your bill for purchases in full without triggering a finance charge. ^{Source: Federal Reserve}
        Group long-term care insurance: means a long-term care insurance policy that is delivered or issued for delivery in this state and issued to:
        
        One (1) or more employers or labor organizations, or to a trust or to the trustees of a fund established by one (1) or more employers or labor organizations, or a combination thereof, for employees or former employees, or a combination of employees or former employees, or for members or former members, or a combination of members or former members, of the labor organizations. See Tennessee Code 56-42-103
        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.
        Hazardous financial condition: means that, based on its present or reasonably anticipated financial condition, a risk retention group, although not yet financially impaired or insolvent, is unlikely to be able to:
        
        Meet obligations to policyholders with respect to known claims and reasonably anticipated claims. See Tennessee Code 56-45-102
        Health care services: means any services included in the furnishing to any individual of medical or dental care, or hospitalization, or incidental to the furnishing of the care or hospitalization, as well as the furnishing to any person of any and all other services for the purpose of preventing, alleviating, curing, or healing human illness, injury or physical disability. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
        Health organization: means a health maintenance organization, limited health service organization, dental or vision plan, hospital, medical and dental indemnity or service corporation, or other managed care organization licensed pursuant to Chapters 27 28, 30, 31, 32 and 51 of this title. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        Hearsay: Statements by a witness who did not see or hear the incident in question but heard about it from someone else. Hearsay is usually not admissible as evidence in court.
        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
        Home state: means the state or foreign country in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as parent for at least six (6) consecutive months immediately preceding the time of filing of a petition or comparable pleading for support and, if a child is less than six (6) months old, the state or foreign country in which the child lived from birth with any of them. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Income: includes earnings or other periodic entitlements to money from any source and any other property subject to withholding for support under the law of this state. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Income-withholding order: means an order or other legal process directed to an obligor's employer or other debtor, as provided for in part 5 of this chapter, to withhold support from the income of the obligor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. ^{Source: FDIC}
        individual party: means a party to the support action who is a person, but does not include a governmental agency, or the contractor or agent of such governmental agency, that is enforcing an order of support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-101
        Initiating tribunal: means the tribunal of a state or foreign country from which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded or in which a petition or comparable pleading is filed for forwarding to another state or foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
        Insurance: means "property insurance" as defined in §. See Tennessee Code 56-41-101
        Insurance: means primary insurance, excess insurance, reinsurance, surplus lines insurance and any other arrangement for shifting and distributing risk that is determined to be insurance under the laws of this state. See Tennessee Code 56-45-102
        Insurance policy: means the written instrument in which are set forth the terms of any binder of coverage or contract of insurance, including a binder or contract issued by a state-assigned risk plan, or other forms of workers' compensation insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-47-102
        Insurance professional: means sales agents, managing general agents, brokers, producers, adjusters and third party administrators. See Tennessee Code 56-47-102
        Insurance transaction: means a transaction by, between or among an:
        
        Insurer or a person who acts on behalf of an insurer. See Tennessee Code 56-47-102
        Insurer: means any person who obtains a certificate of authority under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 56-43-103
        Insurer: means any person purporting to engage in the business of insurance or authorized to do business in this state or subject to regulation by the state, who undertakes to indemnify another against loss, damage or liability arising from a contingent or unknown event related to causes arising under title 50, chapter 6. See Tennessee Code 56-47-102
        Interest rate: The amount paid by a borrower to a lender in exchange for the use of the lender's money for a certain period of time. Interest is paid on loans or on debt instruments, such as notes or bonds, either at regular intervals or as part of a lump sum payment when the issue matures. ^{Source: OCC}
        Issuing county: means the county in which a court issues a support or custody order or that renders a judgment determining parentage or to which a support or custody order has been previously transferred. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
        Issuing court: means the court that issues a support or custody order or renders a judgment determining parentage or to which a support or custody order has been previously transferred. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
        Issuing court: means the court that entered the order sought to be enforced in the registering court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
        Issuing state: means the state in which a tribunal issues a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Issuing tribunal: means the tribunal of a state or foreign country that issues a support order or renders a judgment determining parentage of a child. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
        Labor organization: has the meaning given such term in §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
        Law: means any act or statute, general, special or local, of this state, including, but not limited to, any local government charter. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). ^{Source: OCC}
        Legal insurance: means the assumption of a contractual obligation to provide specified legal services or reimbursement for legal expenses in consideration of a specified payment for an interval of time, regardless of whether the payment is made by the beneficiaries individually or by a third person for them, in such a manner that the total cost incurred by assuming the obligation is to be spread directly or indirectly among a group of persons. See Tennessee Code 56-43-103
        Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
        License: means a license, certification, registration, permit, approval or other similar document issued to an individual evidencing admission to or granting authority to engage in a profession, trade, occupation, business, or industry, to hunt or fish, or to operate any motor vehicle or other conveyance, but does not include a license to practice law unless the supreme court establishes guidelines pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
        Licensee: means a premium finance company holding a license issued under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 56-37-102
        Licensee: means any individual holding a license, certification, registration, permit, approval, or other similar document evidencing admission to, or granting authority to engage in a profession, trade, occupation, business, or industry, to hunt or fish, or to operate any motor vehicle or other conveyance, but "licensee" does not include an attorney only with respect to the attorney's license to practice law unless the supreme court establishes guidelines pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
        Licensing authority: means the board, commission, or agency, including the department of safety, that has been established by statute or state regulation to oversee the issuance and regulation of any license. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
        Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
        Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
        Livestock: means all equine as well as animals that are being raised primarily for use as food or fiber for human utilization or consumption including, but not limited to, cattle, sheep, swine, goats, and poultry. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        Local government: means any county, municipality or metropolitan government in this state. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Local government instrumentality: means any authority created by law on behalf of a county, metropolitan government, municipality or any combination thereof. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Long-term care insurance: includes group and individual annuities and life insurance policies or riders that provide directly or supplement long-term care insurance. See Tennessee Code 56-42-103
        Magistrate: means a duly licensed attorney who has been actively engaged in the practice of law for a period of not less than two (2) years appointed by court authority to set and enforce child support, to review the administrative hearing decisions of the department of human services pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-401
        Mandatory Control Level RBC: means the product of 0. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        Mandatory Control Level RBC: means the product of 0. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        Month: means a calendar month. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        Mortgage: The written agreement pledging property to a creditor as collateral for a loan.
        Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
        NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        NAIC: means the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        Negative trend: means , with respect to a life and/or health insurer, negative trend over a period of time, as determined in accordance with the "Trend Test Calculation" included in the RBC Instructions. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        Net worth: means the excess of total admitted assets over total admitted liabilities, but the liabilities shall not include fully subordinated debt approved by the commissioner. See Tennessee Code 56-32-112
        Nonprofit dental service corporation: means any corporation organized pursuant to this chapter for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and operating a nonprofit dental service plan, and that employs the service benefit concept in the majority of the programs it administers. See Tennessee Code 56-30-102
        Nonprofit vision service corporation: means any corporation organized pursuant to this chapter for the purpose of establishing, maintaining and operating a nonprofit vision service plan. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
        Nonprofit vision service plan: means a plan whereby specified vision service is provided by a nonprofit vision service corporation to subscribers to the plan. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
        Nonrequesting party: means the party against whom a registered order is sought to be enforced. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
        Not in compliance with an order of support: means that the obligor is five hundred dollars ($500) or more in arrears and the arrears are ninety (90) days or more past due. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
        Notes: means notes or interim certificates issued pending preparation or delivery of definitive notes of a local government issued pursuant to this chapter. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
        Obligations: means bonds, notes and any other evidence of indebtedness lawfully issued or assumed by a local government. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Obligee: means an individual or agency to whom a support obligation is owed by an obligor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
        Obligee: means any individual to whom a duty of support is owed or any state or political subdivision to whom such duty has been assigned or that is collecting support on behalf of an obligee. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
        Obligee: means :
        
        An individual to whom a duty of support is or is alleged to be owed or in whose favor a support order or a judgment determining parentage of a child has been issued. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Obligor: means an individual, or the estate of a decedent that:
        
        Owes or is alleged to owe a duty of support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Obligor: means an individual against whom a support order has been entered. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
        Obligor: means any individual owing a duty of support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
        Order of support: means any judgment or order for the support of dependent children issued by any court of this state or another state, including an order in a final decree of divorce, or any order issued in accordance with an administrative procedure established by state law in this or another state that affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
        Outside this state: means a location in another state or a country other than the United States, whether or not the country is a foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Oversight: Committee review of the activities of a Federal agency or program.
        Participating dentist: means a dentist licensed to practice dentistry in this state under title 63, chapter 5, who contracts in writing with a dental service plan corporation to perform the dental services specified in the subscription certificates issued by the corporation, and at the rates of compensation determined by the board of directors of the corporation, and who agrees to abide by the bylaws, rules and regulations of the corporation applicable to participating dentists. See Tennessee Code 56-30-102
        Participating optometrist: means an optometrist duly licensed to practice optometry in this state who contracts in writing with a vision service plan corporation to perform the vision services specified in the subscription certificates issued by the corporation, and at rates of compensation determined by the board of directors of the corporation, and who agrees to abide by the bylaws, rules and regulations of the corporation applicable to participating optometrists. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
        Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
        Pattern or practice: means repeated, routine or generalized in nature, and not merely isolated or sporadic. See Tennessee Code 56-47-102
        Person: means an individual, corporation, business trust, estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, public corporation, government, or governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Person: includes a natural person, a corporation, an association, a common law trust or corporation. See Tennessee Code 56-30-102
        Person: includes a natural person, a corporation, an association, a common-law trust or corporation. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
        Person: means an individual, firm, association, partnership, estate, trust, fiduciary, syndicate or corporation. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
        person: includes an individual, insurer, company, association, organization, Lloyds, society, reciprocal insurer or interinsurance exchange, partnership, syndicate, business trust, corporation, agent, general agent, broker, solicitor, service representative, adjuster, and every legal entity. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
        Person: means an individual, partnership, association, business corporation, nonprofit corporation, common law trust, joint-stock company or any other group of individuals however organized. See Tennessee Code 56-37-102
        Person: means any natural or artificial person including, but not limited to, an individual, partnership, association, trust or corporation. See Tennessee Code 56-43-103
        Person: means a natural person, company, corporation, unincorporated association, partnership, professional corporation, agency of government or any other entity. See Tennessee Code 56-47-102
        Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        Person: means any association, aggregate of individuals, business, company, corporation, individual, joint-stock company, Lloyds-type organization, organization, partnership, receiver, reciprocal or interinsurance exchange, trustee or society. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
        Personal property: All property that is not real property.
        Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        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
        Personal risk liability: means liability for damages because of injury to any person, damage to property, or other loss or damage resulting from any personal, familial or household responsibilities or activities, rather than from responsibilities or activities referred to in subdivision (6). See Tennessee Code 56-45-102
        Petitioner: means a person or governmental entity seeking to be awarded or to enforce support for a child, or seeking to modify a previous child support order. See Tennessee Code 36-5-401
        Physician-hospital organization: means an organization formed to allow hospitals and physicians to jointly obtain provider contracts with HMOs and other payers of health care benefits. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
        Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
        Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
        Policy: means any instrument, contract or agreement whereby and whereunder title insurance companies insure or guarantee titles to real property, or interests therein, or liens or encumbrances on the property, as defined in subdivision (11). See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
        Policy: means any policy, contract, subscriber agreement, rider or endorsement delivered or issued for delivery in this state by an insurer, fraternal benefit society, nonprofit health, hospital or medical service corporation, prepaid health plan, health maintenance organization or any similar organization. See Tennessee Code 56-42-103
        Power of attorney: A written instrument which authorizes one person to act as another's agent or attorney. The power of attorney may be for a definite, specific act, or it may be general in nature. The terms of the written power of attorney may specify when it will expire. If not, the power of attorney usually expires when the person granting it dies. ^{Source: OCC}
        Practitioner: means a licensee of this state authorized to practice medicine and surgery, psychology, chiropractic or law or any other licensee of state or person required to be licensed in this state whose services are compensated either in whole or in part, directly or indirectly, by insurance proceeds. See Tennessee Code 56-47-102
        Premium: includes any payments, whether due within the insurance policy term or otherwise, and deductible payments whether advanced by the insurer or insurance professional and subject to reimbursement by the insured or otherwise, any self-insured retention or payments, whether advanced by the insurer or insurance professionals and subject to reimbursement by the insured or otherwise, and any collateral or security to be provided to collateralize obligations to pay any of the above. See Tennessee Code 56-47-102
        Premium finance agreement: means an agreement by which an insured or prospective insured promises to pay to a premium finance company the amount advanced or to be advanced under the agreement to an insurer or to an insurance agent or producing agent in payment of premiums of an insurance contract, together with interest and a service charge as authorized and limited by this chapter. See Tennessee Code 56-37-102
        Premium finance company: means a person engaged in the business of entering into premium finance agreements or acquiring premium finance agreements from other premium finance companies. See Tennessee Code 56-37-102
        premiums: as used in this chapter includes, but is not limited to, any and all payments made by the state to any entity providing health care services pursuant to any federal waiver received by the state that waives any or all of Title XIX of the federal Social Security Act, compiled in 42 U. See Tennessee Code 56-32-112
        Premiums financed: means any interest assigned pursuant to a premium finance agreement or other assignment in or relating to an insurance policy or contract of insurance, to the extent of the rights retained by an assignor or assignee of that policy or contract of insurance for the refund of premiums and related charges paid. See Tennessee Code 56-37-102
        Producer of title insurance business: means :
        
        The insured or one (1) of the insureds under a policy of title insurance, except that, if the interest of the insured is held in a fiduciary capacity, the true or beneficial owner of the interest shall be deemed the insured for the purposes of this definition. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
        Product liability: means liability for damages because of any personal injury, death, emotional harm, consequential economic damage, or property damage, including damages resulting from the loss of use of property, arising out of the manufacture, design, importation, distribution, packaging, labeling, lease or sale of a product, but does not include the liability of any person for those damages if the product involved was in the possession of the person when the incident giving rise to the claim occurred. See Tennessee Code 56-45-102
        Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        Property and casualty insurer: means any insurance company licensed in those lines in Tennessee, but does not include monoline mortgage guaranty insurers, financial guaranty insurers and title insurers. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
        Provider: means any physician, hospital or other person that is licensed or otherwise authorized in this state to furnish health care services. See Tennessee Code 56-32-102
        Public works project: includes any one (1) or any combination of the following: abattoirs, acquisitions of land for the purpose of providing or preserving open land, airports, alleys, ambulances, auditoriums, bridges, city and town halls, local government stables or garages, community houses, corrective, detention and penal facilities, including, but not limited to, jails, workhouses and reformatories, courthouses, culverts, curbs, dispensaries, drainage systems, including storm water sewers and drains, electric plants and systems, expositions, facilities for the handicapped, including physically and mentally handicapped, facilities for the indigent, fairgrounds and fairground facilities, fire department equipment and buildings, fire alarm systems, flood control, garbage collection and disposal systems, gas and natural gas systems and storage facilities, heat plants and systems, harbor and riverfront improvements, health centers and clinics, including medical and mental health centers and clinics, highways, major roads, highway and street equipment, hospitals, hotels and supporting or incidental facilities built by local governments which are built adjacent to and as a supporting facility of civic or convention centers located in municipalities which have created a central business improvement district under the Central Business Improvement District Act of 1971, compiled in title 7, chapter 84, improvements made pursuant to a plan of improvement for a central business improvement district created pursuant to the Central Business Improvement District Act of 1971, law enforcement and emergency services equipment, levees, libraries, markets, memorials, museums, nursing homes, parks, parking facilities, parkways, playgrounds, plazas, port facilities, docks and dock facilities, including any terminal storage and transportation facilities incident thereto, public art, public buildings, preserves, railroads, including the extension of railroads, and railway beltlines and switches, reclamation of land, recreation centers and facilities, reservoirs, rights-of-way, river and navigation improvements, roads, sanitariums, schools, transportation equipment for schools, sewers, sewage and waste water systems, including, but not limited to, collection, drainage, treatment and disposal systems, ship canals, sidewalks, stadiums, streets, swimming pools, thermal transfer generating plants and/or distribution systems, tunnels, viaducts, voting machines, water treatment distribution and storage systems, wharves and zoos. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Purchasing group: means any group that:
        
        Has as one (1) of its purposes the purchase of liability insurance on a group basis. See Tennessee Code 56-45-102
        RBC Instructions: means the RBC Report including risk-based capital instructions adopted by the NAIC, as the RBC Instructions may be amended by the NAIC from time to time in accordance with the procedures adopted by the NAIC. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        RBC instructions: means the RBC report including risk-based capital instructions adopted by the NAIC, as these RBC instructions may be amended by the NAIC from time to time in accordance with the procedures adopted by the NAIC. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        RBC Plan: means a comprehensive financial plan containing the elements specified in §. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        RBC plan: means a comprehensive financial plan containing the elements specified in §. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        RBC Report: means the report required in §. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        RBC report: means the report required in §. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
        real property: include lands, tenements and hereditaments, and all rights thereto and interests therein, equitable as well as legal. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        Reciprocal: means the aggregation of subscribers under a common name. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
        Reckless: means without reasonable belief of the truth, or, for the purposes of §. See Tennessee Code 56-47-102
        Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in a perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        Refunding bonds: means bonds issued to refund all or any part of bonds, notes or other obligations, except capital outlay notes when retired by bonds in conformance with part 6 of this chapter, and notes issued in anticipation of bonds, heretofore or hereafter issued or lawfully assumed by a local government pursuant to this chapter, or any other provision of this code or any other general or special law. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Register: means to file in a tribunal of this state a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child issued in another state or a foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Registering court: means the court in which a support order is registered for enforcement only. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
        Registering tribunal: means a tribunal in which a support order or judgment determining parentage of a child is registered. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Regulatory Action Level RBC: means the product of 1. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        Regulatory Action Level RBC: means the product of 1. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
        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
        Request: means a statement of a requesting party seeking transfer of a custody or child support case to the court of another county. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
        Requesting party: means custodial parent, noncustodial parent or, in Title IV-D child support cases, the department or its contractor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
        Rescission: The cancellation of budget authority previously provided by Congress. The Impoundment Control Act of 1974 specifies that the President may propose to Congress that funds be rescinded. If both Houses have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation.
        Respondent: means a person from whom child support is sought or a person in opposition to modification of a prior order. See Tennessee Code 36-5-401
        Responding state: means a state in which a petition or comparable pleading for support or to determine parentage of a child is filed or to which a petition or comparable pleading is forwarded for filing from another state or a foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Responding tribunal: means the authorized tribunal in a responding state or foreign country. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Restitution: The court-ordered payment of money by the defendant to the victim for damages caused by the criminal action.
        Restricted license: means a license that allows a person to operate a motor vehicle for the limited purposes of going to and from and working at the person's regular place of employment and going to and from the person's school and does not include a commercial driver license of any kind. See Tennessee Code 36-5-701
        Revenues: means all fees, rents, tolls, rates, rentals, interest earnings, or other charges received or receivable by the local government from any public works project or enterprise then existing or thereafter to be constructed, including any revenues derived or to be derived by a local government from a lease, agreement or contract with any other local government, local government instrumentality, the state, or a state or federal agency for the use of or in connection with a public works project or enterprise, or all other charges to be levied and collected in connection with and all other income and receipts of whatever kind or character derived by the local government from the operation of any public works project or enterprise or arising from any public works project or enterprise. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Right of offset: Banks' legal right to seize funds that a guarantor or debtor may have on deposit to cover a loan in default. It is also known as the right of set-off. ^{Source: OCC}
        Risk rate: means the aggregate consideration paid, or to be paid, to a title insurance company for the insurance liability assumed under the policy of title insurance, or binder therefor, issued and delivered, or proposed to be issued and delivered, by the company, exclusive of all other charges incident to the issuance of the binder or policy for abstracting, record searching, certificates as to the record title to real estate, escrow and closing services, or other related services that may be offered by any title insurance or guaranty company and which company is authorized by law and its charter to perform, or the company's costs and expenses of procuring examinations of titles by attorneys approved or selected by it for such purpose. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
        Risk retention group: means any corporation or other limited liability association:
        
        Whose primary activity consists of assuming and spreading all, or any portion, of the liability exposure of its group members. See Tennessee Code 56-45-102
        Savings and loan association: includes a building and loan association, a federal or state savings and loan association, a federal savings bank, and any other financial institution, the accounts of which are insured by the federal savings and loan insurance corporation (FSLIC) or any successor of such corporation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
        Settlement: Parties to a lawsuit resolve their difference without having a trial. Settlements often involve the payment of compensation by one party in satisfaction of the other party's claims.
        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
        Spousal support: as used in this part , means a legally enforceable obligation assessed against an individual for the support of a spouse or former spouse who is living with a child or children for whom the individual also owes support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1002
        Spousal support order: means a support order for a spouse or former spouse of the obligor. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        State: means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, or any territory or insular possession under the jurisdiction of the United States. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        State: means the state of Tennessee. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        State: means any state of the United States or the District of Columbia. See Tennessee Code 56-45-102
        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
        Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
        Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
        Subscriber: means a person to whom a subscription certificate is issued by a dental care service plan corporation that sets forth the beneficiaries and the kind and extent of dental service for which the corporation is liable to make payment. See Tennessee Code 56-30-102
        Subscriber: means a person to whom a subscription certificate is issued by a vision care service plan corporation, which sets forth the beneficiaries and the kind and extent of vision service for which the corporation is liable to make payment. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
        Subscriber: means a person obligated under a reciprocal insurance agreement. See Tennessee Code 56-16-102
        Subscription: includes a mark, the name being written near the mark and witnessed. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        Summons: Another word for subpoena used by the criminal justice system.
        Support enforcement agency: means a public official, governmental entity, or private agency authorized to:
        
        Seek enforcement of support orders or laws relating to the duty of support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Support order: means a judgment, decree, order, decision, or directive, whether temporary, final, or subject to modification, issued in a state or foreign country for the benefit of a child, a spouse, or a former spouse, which provides for monetary support, health care, arrearages, retroactive support, or reimbursement for financial assistance provided to an individual obligee in place of child support. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Taxable property: means all property subject to ad valorem taxation within the local government, or any portion of the local government, if applicable. See Tennessee Code 9-21-105
        Testify: Answer questions in court.
        Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
        Title insurance agency: means a firm, association, trust, corporation, cooperative, joint stock company or other legal entity authorized in writing by a title insurance company to solicit title insurance, collect premiums, determine insurability in accordance with the underwriting rules and standards prescribed by the title insurance company that the agency represents, and issue title insurance policies, title insurance binders, commitments to insure and endorsements thereto in its behalf. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
        Title insurance agent: means either:
        
        A natural person who meets the requirements of or performs the same functions as a "title insurance agency". See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
        Title insurance business: means the insuring or guaranteeing of titles to real property, or interests in real property, or the validity, accuracy or sufficiency of liens or encumbrances on real property. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
        Title insurance company: means any corporation, foreign or domestic, authorized by its charter to conduct a "title insurance business" as defined by this chapter and is sometimes referred to as "insurer" or "insurers. See Tennessee Code 56-35-102
        Title IV-D agency: means the agency designated pursuant to Title IV, Part D of the Social Security Act (42 U. See Tennessee Code 36-5-1101
        Total adjusted capital: means the sum of:
        
        An insurer's statutory capital and surplus as determined in accordance with the statutory accounting applicable to the annual financial statements required to be filed pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        Total adjusted capital: means the sum of:
        
        A health organization's statutory capital and surplus, also known as net worth, as determined in accordance with the statutory accounting applicable to the annual financial statements required to be filed under §. See Tennessee Code 56-46-201
        Transfer: means the process by which the transferor court, upon request, moves the case to a court where the child resides thereby conferring jurisdiction on the transferee court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
        Transferee court: means the court that assumes jurisdiction upon a transfer of a case. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
        Transferor court: means the court from which a case is transferred to another court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
        Trend Test Calculation: include d in the RBC Instructions. See Tennessee Code 56-46-102
        Trial: A hearing that takes place when the defendant pleads "not guilty" and witnesses are required to come to court to give evidence.
        Tribunal: means a court, administrative agency, or quasi-judicial entity authorized to establish, enforce, or modify support orders or to determine parentage of a child. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
        Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
        Truth in Lending Act: The Truth in Lending Act is a federal law that requires lenders to provide standardized information so that borrowers can compare loan terms. In general, lenders must provide information on ^{Source: OCC}
        Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. ^{Source: OCC}
        United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
        Usury: Charging an illegally high interest rate on a loan. ^{Source: OCC}
        Venue: The geographical location in which a case is tried.
        Vision service: means the usual and general professional services rendered by persons duly licensed under the laws of this state to practice optometry. See Tennessee Code 56-31-102
        working capital: means current assets, including admitted stocks and admitted bonds, minus current liabilities. See Tennessee Code 56-32-112
        Writ: A formal written command, issued from the court, requiring the performance of a specific act.
        Writ of certiorari: An order issued by the Supreme Court directing the lower court to transmit records for a case for which it will hear on appeal.
        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

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