Chapter
Part 3 Adoption Contact Veto Registry
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-101— Purpose of part — Construction
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-102— Part definitions
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-103— Prior adoptions and terminations of parental rights involving minors and prior adoptions of adults ratified
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-104— Withholding of material information concerning the status of the parents or guardian of a child subject to surrender, termination of parental rights or adoption — Misdemeanor
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-105— Violation of criminal provisions of part by state employee — Dismissal
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-106— Readoption
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-107— Persons to whom this part is applicable
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-108— Entities authorized to place children for adoption — Advisory and agency capacity authorized — Injunction to stop illegal payments
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-109— Illegal payments in connection with placement of child — Penalty
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-110— Parent under eighteen years of age — Surrender
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-111— Presurrender request for home study or preliminary home study — Surrender of child — Consent for adoption by parent — Effect of Surrender — Form of surrender — Waiver of interest — Interpreter for non-English speaking parents
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-112— Revocation of surrender or parental consent — Form
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-113— Termination of parental or guardianship rights
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-114— Venue
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-115— Persons eligible to file adoption petition — Residence requirements — Preference for foster parents
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-116— Home study — Adoption petition — Order of reference
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-117— Parties to proceedings — Termination of rights of putative father — Consent of parent or guardian — Service of process
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-118— Dismissal of adoption proceedings and guardianship orders — Revocation of surrender by court — Notice — Disposition of child
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-119— Final order of adoption — When entered
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-120— Final order of adoption — Contents — Report of foreign birth
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-121— Effect of adoption on relationship
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-122— Binding effect of adoption
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-123— Biological parents illegally obtaining custody of a child — Custodial interference — Survival of existing restraining order
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-124— Contested terminations of parental rights and adoptions — Appeals — Expedited schedule
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-125— Confidentiality of records — Penalties for unauthorized disclosure — Protected orders
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-126— Record kept under seal — Confidential records — Access to certain records — Preservation of records
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-127— Availability of records to adopted persons and certain other persons for adoptions finalized or attempted prior to certain dates
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-128— Contact veto registry — Persons eligible to have names entered
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-129— Procedures for filing contact veto or giving consent
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-130— Access to records — Search of registry — Restrictions on contact
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-131— Search of sealed adoption record, sealed record or post-adoption records — Opportunity to veto contact
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-132— Violation of contact veto a misdemeanor — Injunction and damages — Attorney's fees — Using information to injure persons whose names were obtained
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-133— Release of nonidentifying information concerning biological or legal family
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-134— Transmission of information between affected parties — Access to records of deceased or disabled persons — Updating of information to allow contact
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-135— Updated medical information in records — Searches for persons affected
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-136— Notification made as part of search, contact or identifying requests
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-137— Inability of department to verify adoptive status of relationships — Waiting period to request further searches — Limitations on searches
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-138— Court orders for the release of information from adoption and sealed records
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-139— Penalty for providing false information related to information requests
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-140— Immunity for actions in good faith by department personnel and immunity of certain other persons
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-141— Fees for searches, registration of contact vetoes, and copies — Promulgation of rules — Forms
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-142— Voluntary delivery of infant to facility, revocation of voluntary delivery, and termination of parental rights
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-143— Post-adoption services to support permanency in adoption
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-144— Categories of information to be provided to adoptive family
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-145— Written contract for post-adoption contact between certain parties — Requirements — Enforcement — Modification — Termination
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-146— Rebuttable presumption that guardian ad litem's fees divided equally between parties
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-147— Private licensed child-placing agencies
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-201— Terms of compact
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-202— Amount of assistance
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-203— Documentation of eligibility
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-204— Applicability of part
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-205— Violations — Penalties
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-206— Construction — Compliance with federal laws
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-301— Advance notice system
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-302— “Advance notice period” defined
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-303— Persons entitled to file a request for advance notice
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-304— Advance notice registry
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-1-305— Promulgation of necessary rules and regulations