Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-129

Stipulated grounds and/or defenses — Grant of divorce

Applied in 17 court decisions — leading case Kinard v. Kinard (1998)

Most recently applied in Jeremy David Parvin v. Jackie LaDean Newman (December 2016)

Acts 1989, ch. 543, § 1; 1998, ch. 1059, § 5; 2008, ch. 868, § 2.

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(1) In all actions for divorce from the bonds of matrimony or legal separation the parties may stipulate as to grounds and/or defenses.

(2) The court may, upon stipulation to or proof of any ground of divorce pursuant to § 36-4-101, grant a divorce to the party who was less at fault or, if either or both parties are entitled to a divorce or if a divorce is to be granted on the grounds of irreconcilable differences, declare the parties to be divorced, rather than awarding a divorce to either party alone.

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.