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2023 Tennessee Code
Title 34 - GUARDIANSHIP (§§ 34-1-101 — 34-8-503)
Chapter 1 - GUARDIANSHIPS AND CONSERVATORSHIPS GENERALLY (§§ 34-1-101 — 34-1-133)
- Section 34-1-101 - Chapter 1 - 3 definitions
- Section 34-1-102 - Parents as joint and equal natural guardians of minors - Custody of minors - Support of minors over eighteen (18)
- Section 34-1-103 - Duties of department of children's services when no natural guardian, or child abandoned
- Section 34-1-104 - Letters of guardianship or conservatorship - Disposition of funds of minor under $25,000 - Discharge of paying entities - Order of distribution - Distribution of funds - Direction of funds into trust
- Section 34-1-105 - Bond
- Section 34-1-106 - Petition for appointment of fiduciary
- Section 34-1-107 - Guardian ad litem
- Section 34-1-108 - Hearings on petitions - Notice
- Section 34-1-109 - When fiduciary's appointment becomes effective - Evidence of appointment - Liability - Fiduciary oath
- Section 34-1-110 - Management of property - Inventory - Filing - Failure to file or appear - Revocation of authority
- Section 34-1-111 - Accounting with court - Failure to account
- Section 34-1-112 - Compensation to fiduciary
- Section 34-1-113 - Payments by fiduciary
- Section 34-1-114 - Charging of costs of proceedings
- Section 34-1-115 - Investments - Trust - Management plan - Court approval - Waiver
- Section 34-1-116 - Sale of property
- Section 34-1-117 - Resignation of fiduciary - Transfer of fiduciary relationship
- Section 34-1-118 - Persons receiving property - Receipt for property - Filing
- Section 34-1-119 - Standby fiduciary
- Section 34-1-120 - When people may be appointed fiduciary - Eligible persons
- Section 34-1-121 - Powers of court - Additional actions - Waiver of requirements - Compromise
- Section 34-1-122 - Distributions to persons other than minor - Gift program
- Section 34-1-123 - Summons to appear for abuse, mismanagement or failure to perform - Removal - Submission of matter to district attorney general's office
- Section 34-1-124 - No fiduciary appointed - Expunction of record
- Section 34-1-125 - Attorney ad litem
- Section 34-1-126 - Finding of disablement and need of assistance prerequisite for appointment of fiduciary
- Section 34-1-127 - Least restrictive alternative to be imposed
- Section 34-1-128 - Duties of court clerk - Records - Index - Deadlines - Notices and summons
- Section 34-1-129 - Letters of conservatorship or guardianship - Limited
- Section 34-1-130 - Forms or instructions - Inventory, receipts and expenditures
- Section 34-1-131 - Examination of annual accounting - Report to judge
- Section 34-1-132 - Appointment of emergency guardian or conservator
- Section 34-1-133 - Expedited limited healthcare fiduciary
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