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Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-15-101

Nonsupport and flagrant nonsupport

Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case State v. Sliger (1993)

Most recently applied in Johnson v. Bredesen (October 2010)

Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.

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(1) A person commits the crime of nonsupport who fails to provide support which that person is able to provide and knows the person has a duty to provide to a minor child or to a child or spouse who, because of physical or mental disability, is unable to be self-supporting.

(2) “Child” includes legitimate children and children whose parentage has been admitted by the person charged or established by judicial action.

(3) “Support” includes, but is not limited to, financial assistance, food, shelter, clothing, medical attention or, if determined elsewhere by law, other necessary care.

(4) A person commits the offense of flagrant nonsupport who: Leaves or remains without the state to avoid a legal duty of support; or

(5) Having been convicted one (1) or more times of nonsupport or flagrant nonsupport, is convicted of a subsequent offense under this section.

(6) Nonsupport under subsection (a) is a Class A misdemeanor.

(7) Flagrant nonsupport under subsection (d) is a Class E felony.

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.