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Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-6-217

Continuing jurisdiction of state courts — Jurisdiction to modify own decrees

Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Staats v. McKinnon (2006)

Most recently applied in Jason Mouritsen v. Julia Mouritsen, n/k/a Julia Taubert (March 2020)

Acts 1999, ch. 389, § 18.

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(1) Except as otherwise provided in § 36-6-219, a court of this state which has made a child-custody determination consistent with this part has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction over the determination until: A court of this state determines that neither the child, nor the child and one (1) parent, nor the child and a person acting as a parent have a significant connection with this state and that substantial evidence is no longer available in this state concerning the child's care, protection, training, and personal relationships; or

(2) A court of this state or a court of another state determines that the child, the child's parents, and any person acting as a parent do not presently reside in this state.

(3) A court of this state which has made a child-custody determination and does not have exclusive, continuing jurisdiction under this section may modify that determination only if it has jurisdiction to make an initial determination under § 36-6-216.

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.