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Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-316

Discrimination against children born out of wedlock — Penalty

Acts 1997, ch. 477, § 1.

(1) No child born out of wedlock shall be deprived of any civil benefit afforded to other citizens by law.

(2) Any person, including any employee or official of any governmental agency, who deprives any person of any civil benefit afforded to other citizens by law, by reason of the child being born out of wedlock, commits a Class C misdemeanor.

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.