In a proceeding for custodial responsibility of a child of a service member, a court may not consider a parent's past deployment or possible future deployment in itself in determining the best interest of the child but may consider any significant impact on the best interest of the child of the parent's past or possible future deployment.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-7-107
Effect of past or future deployment on best interest considerations
Known as the Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act
The act spans §§ 36–36 (26 sections).
Acts 2014, ch. 798, § 1.
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.