The court has an affirmative duty to ascertain and impose the least restrictive alternatives upon the person with a disability that are consistent with adequate protection of the person with a disability and the property of the person with a disability.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 34-1-127
Least restrictive alternative to be imposed
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case In Re Conservatorship of Groves (2003)
Most recently applied in 211 Md. App. 305 - In re Rosenberg (May 2013)
Acts 1992, ch. 794, § 28; T.C.A. § 34-11-127; Acts 2013, ch. 435, §§ 42, 46.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.