§ 36-6-201 Short title
§ 36-6-202 Construction and purpose
§ 36-6-203 Evidentiary use of official comments
§ 36-6-204 Official comments to be included in this part
§ 36-6-205 Part definitions
§ 36-6-206 Applicability to adoption or emergency medical care proceedings
§ 36-6-207 Native American children
§ 36-6-208 Foreign countries – Human rights
§ 36-6-209 Binding nature of state court decisions
§ 36-6-210 Priority of jurisdictional question in proceedings
§ 36-6-211 Requirements for notice
§ 36-6-212 Personal jurisdiction over a party – Immunity from jurisdiction for unrelated matters
§ 36-6-213 Communication among courts and parties – Records of communications
§ 36-6-214 Testimony of witnesses residing out of state – Acceptance of electronically transmitted documents as evidence
§ 36-6-215 Request for hearing in, or evidence from another state – Holding hearings or obtaining evidence for other states – Expenses – Preservation of records
§ 36-6-216 Jurisdiction to make custody determination
§ 36-6-217 Continuing jurisdiction of state courts – Jurisdiction to modify own decrees
§ 36-6-218 Jurisdiction to modify foreign decrees
§ 36-6-219 Temporary emergency jurisdiction – Order enforcement – Communication with foreign courts
§ 36-6-220 Notice and opportunity to be heard – Joinder and intervention
§ 36-6-221 Proceedings already commenced in another state
§ 36-6-222 Declining jurisdiction – Inconvenient forum
§ 36-6-223 Unjustifiable conduct of a party
§ 36-6-224 Information in first pleading or affidavit – Stay – Continuing duty to inform court – Sealing records
§ 36-6-225 Order to appear before court – Orders to ensure safety – Payment of expenses
§ 36-6-226 Enforcement of international orders under the Hague Convention
§ 36-6-227 Recognition and enforcement of foreign decrees
§ 36-6-228 Temporary order of enforcement
§ 36-6-229 Registration of foreign decrees – Duties of registering court – Contesting validity of registered decree
§ 36-6-230 Enforcement and modification of registered decrees
§ 36-6-231 Proceeding for enforcement of registered decree when modification procedures are pending in another state
§ 36-6-232 Verification and contents of petition for enforcement – Order for respondent to appear
§ 36-6-233 Service of petition and order
§ 36-6-234 Order for immediate physical custody – Fees, costs and expenses – Party refusal to testify – Husband and wife communications as evidence
§ 36-6-235 Warrant for physical custody – Conditional placement
§ 36-6-236 Award of prevailing party fees, costs and expenses
§ 36-6-237 Full faith and credit for foreign orders
§ 36-6-238 Appeals
§ 36-6-239 Powers of prosecutors or public officials
§ 36-6-240 Law enforcement officer powers
§ 36-6-241 Respondent liability for costs and expenses incurred by prosecutors, public officials and law enforcement officers
§ 36-6-242 Uniformity of construction among states
§ 36-6-243 Actions commenced before June 14, 1999

Terms Used In Tennessee Code > Title 36 > Chapter 6 > Part 2 - Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act

  • Abandoned: means left without provision for reasonable and necessary care or supervision. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Aesthetics: means any of the following practices:
    (A) Massaging, cleansing, stimulating, manipulating, exercising, beautifying or similar work with hands or mechanical or electrical apparatus or by the use of cosmetic preparations, antiseptics, tonics, lotions or creams. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • 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.
  • Agent: means any officer, director, owner, employee, contractor or any other person authorized to act on behalf of a residential roofing services provider. See Tennessee Code 62-6-601
  • Alkaline hydrolysis chamber: means the enclosed space within which the alkaline hydrolysis process takes place and that is used exclusively for alkaline hydrolysis of human remains. See Tennessee Code 62-5-801
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • 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.
  • Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
  • apprentice: means a person who is engaged in learning to practice as a funeral director or embalmer, as the case may be, under the personal supervision and instruction of a duly licensed funeral director or embalmer of this state under this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Assets: (1) The property comprising the estate of a deceased person, or (2) the property in a trust account.
  • Authorizing agent or agents: means a person or persons legally entitled to authorize the cremation of a dead human body or body parts. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Board: means the state board for licensing contractors pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 62-6-402
  • Board: means the board of funeral directors and embalmers. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Board: means the state board for licensing contractors. See Tennessee Code 62-6-501
  • Board: means the state board for licensing contractors created pursuant to §. See Tennessee Code 62-6-102
  • Board: means the state board of cosmetology and barber examiners created by §. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Body parts: means limbs or other portions of the anatomy that are removed from a living person for medical purposes during biopsy, treatment or surgery. See Tennessee Code 62-5-501
  • Casket: means a rigid container that is designed for the encasement of a dead human body and that is constructed of wood, metal or another rigid material, is ornamented and lined with fabric and may or may not be combustible. See Tennessee Code 62-5-501
  • Casket: means a rigid container that is designed for the encasement of a dead human body and that is constructed of wood, metal, or another rigid material. See Tennessee Code 62-5-801
  • Chambers: A judge's office.
  • Child: means an individual who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Child custody determination: includes a permanent, temporary, initial, and modification order. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Child custody proceeding: includes a proceeding for divorce, separation, neglect, abuse, dependency, guardianship, paternity, termination of parental rights, and protection from domestic violence, in which the issue may appear. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Client: means any person who hires or seeks to hire a home inspector to obtain a home inspection or home inspection report. See Tennessee Code 62-6-302
  • 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
  • Commencement: means the filing of the first pleading in a proceeding. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • Commissioner: means the commissioner of commerce and insurance or the commissioner's designee. See Tennessee Code 62-6-302
  • 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.
  • Contract: means a contract in this state between a person and a residential roofing services provider for the provision of goods or services related to the repair or replacement of a roof system the costs of which the residential roofing services provider represents are to be paid, or are likely to be paid, in whole or in part, from the proceeds of a property and casualty insurance policy. See Tennessee Code 62-6-601
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Contracting: means any person or entity that performs or causes to be performed any of the activities defined in subdivision (4)(A) or (7). See Tennessee Code 62-6-102
  • Contractor: includes , but is not limited to, a prime contractor, electrical contractor, electrical subcontractor, mechanical contractor, mechanical subcontractor, plumbing contractor and plumbing subcontractor, masonry contractor, and roofing subcontractor where the total cost of the roofing portion of the construction project is twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) or more. See Tennessee Code 62-6-102
  • 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.
  • Cosmetology: means any of the following practices:
    (A) Arranging, dressing, curling, waving, cleansing, cutting, singeing, bleaching, coloring or similar work on the hair of any person by any means. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Court: means an entity authorized under the law of a state to establish, enforce, or modify a child custody determination. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Cremation: means the heating process by which a human body or body parts are reduced to bone fragments through combustion and evaporation. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Crematory: includes crematorium. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Damages: Money paid by defendants to successful plaintiffs in civil cases to compensate the plaintiffs for their injuries.
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Department: means the department of commerce and insurance. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • 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.
  • Disposition directions: means a legible written instrument signed by the decedent and acknowledged by a notary or witnessed by two (2) persons who are qualified adults. See Tennessee Code 62-5-701
  • Embalming: means the preservation and disinfection, restoration or attempted preservation or disinfection of dead human bodies by the application of chemicals externally or internally, or both. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • 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
  • Emergency repairs: means goods or services provided for the purpose of making urgent and necessary repairs to the roof system of residential real estate if, without such repairs, damage to the residential real estate would occur. See Tennessee Code 62-6-601
  • 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
  • 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.
  • Eyelash services: means applying and removing a semi-permanent, thread-like, natural or synthetic single fiber to an eyelash, including cleansing of the eye area and lashes prior to applying and after removing extensions. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • 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.
  • Fixtures: includes , but is not limited to, toilets, sinks, tubs, whirlpool tubs, hot tubs and any faucets or water supply lines used in conjunction with the fixtures. See Tennessee Code 62-6-402
  • Fraud: Intentional deception resulting in injury to another.
  • Funeral directing: means the:
    (i) Practice of directing or supervising funerals or the practice of preparing dead human bodies for burial by any means, other than by embalming, or the disposition of dead human bodies. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Funeral establishment: means any business, whether a proprietorship, partnership, firm, association or corporation, engaged in arranging, directing or supervising funerals for profit or other benefit, the preparing of dead human bodies for burial, the disposition of dead human bodies, the provision or maintenance of place for the preparation for disposition, or for the care or disposition of human bodies. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • General maintenance work: means installing home appliances and making minor repairs to home appliances and kitchen and bathroom fixtures where the labor cost related to the installation or minor repairs does not exceed five hundred dollars ($500). See Tennessee Code 62-6-402
  • Guaranteed pre-need funeral contract: means the pre-need seller, where the contract has been funded in accordance with its terms, shall furnish at the time of death of the contract beneficiary, at no additional charge to the next of kin, the estate of the deceased, or other individual or entity responsible for the funeral, the merchandise and services selected, or the equivalent if the specific merchandise is not readily available, in the pre-need funeral contract. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • Guarantor: A party who agrees to be responsible for the payment of another party's debts should that party default. Source: OCC
  • 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.
  • Hair braiding: means techniques that result in tension on hair strands, such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking, or braiding of the hair, by hand or mechanical appliances for compensation, without cutting, coloring, relaxing, removing, chemically treating, or using other preparations to straighten, curl, or alter the structure of the hair. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • 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 appliances: means any appliance using water or connected to a water line, including, but not limited to, water heaters, dishwashers, garbage disposals, washers, icemakers and other similar appliances. See Tennessee Code 62-6-402
  • home improvement: includes the installation of central heating or air conditioning systems, storm windows or awnings. See Tennessee Code 62-6-501
  • Home improvement contract: means an agreement between a contractor and an owner for the performance of home improvement, and includes all labor, services and materials to be furnished and performed under the agreement. See Tennessee Code 62-6-501
  • Home improvement contractor: means any person, other than a bona fide employee of the owner, who undertakes or offers to undertake or agrees to perform any home improvement for the owner, whether or not the person is licensed or subject to the licensing requirements of this chapter. See Tennessee Code 62-6-501
  • Home inspection: means a visual analysis for the purpose of providing a professional opinion of the condition of a residential building, ancillary buildings, any reasonably accessible installed components and the operation of the building's systems, including any controls normally operated by the owner of the building, for the following components:
    (i) Heating systems. See Tennessee Code 62-6-302
  • Home inspection report: means a legibly written document prepared for compensation and issued after a home inspection. See Tennessee Code 62-6-302
  • Home inspector: means any person who is licensed under this part as a home inspector and who engages in the business of performing home inspections and writing home inspection reports. See Tennessee Code 62-6-302
  • Home state: means the state in which a child lived with a parent or a person acting as a parent for at least six (6) consecutive months immediately before the commencement of a child custody proceeding. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Initial determination: means the first child custody determination concerning a particular child. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Insurance company: means any corporation, limited liability company, association, partnership, society, order, individual or aggregation of individuals engaging in or proposing or attempting to engage as principals in any kind of insurance business, including the exchanging of reciprocal contracts between individuals, partnerships, and corporations. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • Issuing court: means the court that makes a child custody determination for which enforcement is sought under this part. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Junior instructor: means any person who holds a valid cosmetologist's, manicurist's, aesthetician's or natural hair stylist's license issued by the board who is engaged in a course of training in practice teaching in a school under the personal supervision of a licensed instructor for a period of time not to exceed three (3) years. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • 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.
  • Lawsuit: A legal action started by a plaintiff against a defendant based on a complaint that the defendant failed to perform a legal duty, resulting in harm to the plaintiff.
  • 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 tender: coins, dollar bills, or other currency issued by a government as official money. Source: U.S. Mint
  • Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
  • Licensed masonry contractor: means a contractor who builds structures from individual units of brick, stone, or concrete and glass block laid in and bound together by mortar, where the total cost of the masonry portion of the construction project exceeds one hundred thousand dollars ($100,000), materials and labor, and who is required to obtain a license as a licensed masonry contractor by the board. See Tennessee Code 62-6-102
  • Licensee: means an embalmer or funeral director who holds a license issued by the board. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Licensee: means a person licensed to engage in the home improvement business under this part. See Tennessee Code 62-6-501
  • Licensing period: means the period of time that a funeral director's or embalmer's license is in effect in this state. See Tennessee Code 62-5-101
  • Lien: A claim against real or personal property in satisfaction of a debt.
  • Limited licensed electrician: means any person or entity that performs any electrical work that has a total cost of less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) and that is required to be registered under §. See Tennessee Code 62-6-102
  • Limited licensed plumber: means any person who performs any plumbing work that has a total cost of less than twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) and who is required to be registered under this part. See Tennessee Code 62-6-402
  • Litigation: A case, controversy, or lawsuit. Participants (plaintiffs and defendants) in lawsuits are called litigants.
  • Manager: means a person licensed under chapter 3 or chapter 4 of this title in at least one (1) discipline that a shop is licensed to offer, who serves in a supervisory or managerial capacity in the shop, and whose information is filed with the board. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Manicuring: means manicuring or pedicuring the nails of any person or performing nail artistry. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Minor: means any person who has not attained eighteen (18) years of age. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Mobile shop: means any self-contained, self-supporting, enclosed motor vehicle that may be used as a barber shop, cosmetology shop, dual shop, manicure shop, skin care shop, eyelash services shop, or other category of shop licensed by the board. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Modification: means a child custody determination that changes, replaces, supersedes, or is otherwise made after a previous determination concerning the same child, whether or not it is made by the court that made the previous determination. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • 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.
  • Mortgage loan: A loan made by a lender to a borrower for the financing of real property. Source: OCC
  • National Bank: A bank that is subject to the supervision of the Comptroller of the Currency. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is a bureau of the U.S. Treasury Department. A national bank can be recognized because it must have "national" or "national association" in its name. Source: OCC
  • Natural hair styling: means techniques that result in tension on hair strands such as twisting, wrapping, weaving, extending, locking or braiding of the hair by hand or mechanical appliances, which work does not include the application of dyes, reactive chemicals or other preparations to alter the color or to straighten, curl or alter the structure of the hair. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Natural hair stylist: means a person licensed to practice natural hair styling. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • normal architectural and engineering services: means :
    (i) The preparation of bids, proposals, plans, specifications or other contract documents or the evaluation of contractors, subcontractors or suppliers. See Tennessee Code 62-6-102
  • Oath: includes affirmation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Oath: A promise to tell the truth.
  • 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.
  • Owner: means any homeowner, tenant or any other person who orders, contracts for or purchases the home improvement services of a contractor or the person entitled to the performance of the work of a contractor pursuant to a home improvement contract. See Tennessee Code 62-6-501
  • 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.
  • Person: includes an individual, partnership, corporation, trust, association, owner, contractor, salesperson or any other legal entity. See Tennessee Code 62-6-501
  • Person: means an individual or entity. See Tennessee Code 62-6-601
  • Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Person: means an individual, corporation, business, trust estate, trust, partnership, limited liability company, association, joint venture, government, governmental subdivision, agency, or instrumentality, public corporation, or any other legal or commercial entity. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Person acting as a parent: means a person, other than a parent, who:
    (A) Has physical custody of the child or has had physical custody for a period of six (6) consecutive months, including any temporary absence, within one (1) year immediately before the commencement of a child custody proceeding. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Personal property: includes money, goods, chattels, things in action, and evidences of debt. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Personal property: All property that is not real property.
  • 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
  • Petitioner: means a person who seeks enforcement of an order for return of a child under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or enforcement of a child custody determination. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Physical custody: means the physical care and supervision of a child. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • 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.
  • Plumbing work: means the construction, alteration, repair, improvement, movement, demolition, putting up, tearing down or furnishing of labor to install material or equipment within any residential or commercial building of all piping, fixtures and appliances for the supply of gas, water, liquids or disposal of waste water or sewage. See Tennessee Code 62-6-402
  • Political subdivision: means a city, town, municipality, county, or metropolitan government within this state. See Tennessee Code 62-5-801
  • 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
  • Pre-need funeral contract: means any agreement, contract or plan requiring the payment of money in advance, whether in a lump sum or installments and whether funded by a pre-need funeral trust or prearrangement insurance policy or combination of a pre-need funeral trust and a prearrangement insurance policy, that is made or entered into with any person, association, partnership, firm or corporation for the final disposition of a dead human body, for funeral or burial services or for the furnishing of personal property or funeral or burial merchandise, wherein the use of the personal property or the funeral or burial merchandise or the furnishing of professional services by a funeral director or embalmer is not immediately required. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • Pre-need funeral contract beneficiary: means the person upon whose death the pre-need funeral contract will be performed. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • Pre-need funeral trust: means funds set aside in a trust account held by a trustee to provide for a pre-need funeral contract. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • Pre-need sales agent: means an individual who has applied for and has been granted, or who engages in conduct requiring, registration to sell pre-need funeral contracts on behalf of a pre-need seller pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • Pre-need seller: means a funeral establishment or other individual, firm, partnership, company, corporation, or association that has applied for and has been granted, or that engages in conduct requiring, registration to sell pre-need funeral contracts pursuant to this part. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • Prearrangement insurance policy: means a life insurance policy, annuity contract, or other insurance contract, or any series of contracts or agreements in any form or manner, issued by an insurance company, that, whether by assignment or otherwise, funds a pre-need funeral contract, the insured or annuitant being the person for whose funeral service the funds were paid. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Processing: means the reduction of identifiable bone fragments after the completion of the alkaline hydrolysis process to unidentifiable bone fragments by manual means. See Tennessee Code 62-5-801
  • Property: includes both personal and real property. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Prosecute: To charge someone with a crime. A prosecutor tries a criminal case on behalf of the government.
  • Pulverization: means the reduction of identifiable bone fragments after the completion of the alkaline hydrolysis and processing to granulated particles by manual or mechanical means. See Tennessee Code 62-5-801
  • Qualified adult: means a person who is eighteen (18) years of age or older and of sound mind. See Tennessee Code 62-5-701
  • Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
  • 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
  • Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
  • 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
  • Residential building: means a structure that is intended to be or is in fact used as a residence consisting of from one (1) to four (4) family dwelling units. See Tennessee Code 62-6-302
  • Residential contractor: means one whose services are limited to construction, remodelling, repair or improvement of one (1), two (2), three (3) or four (4) family unit residences not exceeding three (3) stories in height and accessory use structures in connection with the residences. See Tennessee Code 62-6-102
  • Residential real estate: means a new or existing building constructed for habitation by one to four (1-4) families, and includes the building's garage, even if the garage is detached from such building. See Tennessee Code 62-6-601
  • Resomation: means the alkaline hydrolysis process. See Tennessee Code 62-5-801
  • Respondent: means a person against whom a proceeding has been commenced for enforcement of an order for return of a child under the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction or enforcement of a child custody determination. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Right of disposition: means the right to determine the disposition of the remains of a decedent, including the location, manner, and conditions of disposition and arrangements for funeral goods and services. See Tennessee Code 62-5-701
  • Road: includes public bridges and may be held equivalent to the words "county way" "county road" or "state road". See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Roof system: means a roof covering, roof sheathing, roof weatherproofing, roof framing, roof ventilation system, or insulation for residential real estate. See Tennessee Code 62-6-601
  • Roofing work: means the act of removing, installing, repairing or otherwise maintaining any covering to any at- or above-grade structure for the purpose of providing weather proof protection or ornamental enhancement to such structure. See Tennessee Code 62-6-102
  • 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 [former] federal savings and loan insurance corporation (FSLIC) or any successor [repealed] of such corporation. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • School: means a school of cosmetology. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Shop: means a cosmetology shop, manicure shop, skin care shop, natural hair styling shop, or eyelash services shop. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • 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
  • 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 subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
  • Student: means any person who is engaged in learning, performing or assisting in any of the practices of cosmetology under the immediate supervision of an instructor of cosmetology. See Tennessee Code 62-4-102
  • Subcontractor: means any person other than a materialman or laborer who enters into a contract with a contractor for the performance of any part of the contractor's contract or who enters into a contract with any subcontractor for the performance of any part of the subcontractor's contract and who does not perform work other than as a subcontractor. See Tennessee Code 62-6-501
  • Temporary container: means a receptacle for cremated remains composed of cardboard, plastic, metal or another material that can be closed in a manner that prevents the leakage or spillage of the cremated remains and the entrance of foreign material and that is of sufficient size to hold the cremated remains until they are placed in an urn or scattered. See Tennessee Code 62-5-501
  • Temporary container: means a receptacle for resomated remains composed of cardboard, plastic, metal, or another material that can be closed in a manner that prevents the leakage or spillage of the resomated remains and the entrance of foreign material and that is of sufficient size to hold the resomated remains until the remains are placed in an urn or scattered. See Tennessee Code 62-5-801
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
  • Tort: A civil wrong or breach of a duty to another person, as outlined by law. A very common tort is negligent operation of a motor vehicle that results in property damage and personal injury in an automobile accident.
  • Transcript: A written, word-for-word record of what was said, either in a proceeding such as a trial or during some other conversation, as in a transcript of a hearing or oral deposition.
  • Tribe: means an Indian tribe or band, or Alaskan native village, which is recognized by federal law or formally acknowledged by a state. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • Trust account: A general term that covers all types of accounts in a trust department, such as estates, guardianships, and agencies. Source: OCC
  • Trustee: means a state or national bank, federally chartered savings and loan association, state chartered trust company, or, in the reasonable discretion of the commissioner upon the terms and conditions that the commissioner may require, a securities brokerage firm licensed and in good standing with appropriate state and federal regulatory authorities. See Tennessee Code 62-5-403
  • Trustee: A person or institution holding and administering property in trust.
  • United States: includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
  • Urn: means a receptacle designed to encase cremated remains permanently. See Tennessee Code 62-5-501
  • Urn: means a receptacle designed to permanently encase resomated remains. See Tennessee Code 62-5-801
  • Warrant: means an order issued by a court authorizing law enforcement officers to take physical custody of a child. See Tennessee Code 36-6-205
  • 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