Tennessee Enacts New Laws Governing Rights of Parents
John W. Crow In the summer of 2014, the Tennessee General Assembly passed several new changes to family laws in this state. One of the most comprehensive revisions of the law was to a statute that is known as “the rights of parents” [T.C.A. 36-6-101(a)(3)(A)]. The legislature strengthened, clarified, and expanded this law in an attempt to curtail many of the…