The circuit court has concurrent jurisdiction with the chancery court to grant divorces, to authorize the adoption of children, to release testamentary and other trustees, and to appoint trustees in place of those released or dead, and also to decree, on petitions of trustees, by will or otherwise, for the sale of property, real or personal.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-10-108
Divorce — Adoption — Trustees
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Stair v. Shumate (In Re Shumate) (1984)
Most recently applied in Bradley James Cox v. Laura Nicole Lucas (May 2019)
Code 1858, § 4232 (deriv
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