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- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-306 · Statute of limitations
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-307 · Jurisdiction - Venue
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-308 · Conduct of trial - Expedited hearings
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-309 · Tests to determine parentage
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-310 · Temporary order of support
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-311 · Order of parentage
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-312 · Custody and visitation issues
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-313 · Inheritance of child from father - Information to commissioner of health - Recovery of fees paid by the department of health - New birth certificates
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-314 · Expedited hearings and appeals in contested child custody cases involving unmarried parties
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-315 · Appeals
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-316 · Discrimination against children born out of wedlock - Penalty
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-317 · Official references to illegitimacy
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-318 · Putative father registry
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-319 · Enrollment of child in supporting party's health care plan
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-320 · License revocation requests
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-321 · Limitations period for child support payment orders
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-322 · Payment of overdue support for children receiving assistance
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-401 · Single means of establishing parentage - Legislative intent
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-402 · Part definitions
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-2-403 · Establishing embryo parentage - Relinquishment of rights and responsibilities
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-101 · Prohibited degrees of relationship
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-102 · Second marriage before dissolution of first prohibited - Effect of absence for five years
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-103 · License required - County of issuance
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-104 · Conditions precedent to issuance of license
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-105 · Minimum age of applicant for license
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-106 · Consent of parent, guardian, next of kin, agency or custodian - "Parent" defined
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-107 · Reserved
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-108 · Forced marriage prohibited - Civil action
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-109 · Issuance of license to drunks, insane persons or imbeciles forbidden
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-110 · Contest of issuance
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-111 · County clerk violating law - Penalty
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-112 · Fraudulently signing or using false documents - Misdemeanor
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-113 · [See Compiler's Note.] Marriage between one man and one woman only legally recognized marital contract
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-301 · Persons who may solemnize marriages
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-302 · Formula not required
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-303 · Return of license to clerk - Penalty for failure to return - Society of Friends
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-304 · Form of certificate
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-305 · Solemnizing marriage between incapable persons - Misdemeanor
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-306 · Marriage consummated by ceremony not invalidated by failure to comply with law - Restriction
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-307 · Nickname in license does not invalidate marriage
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-308 · Marriages during War Between the States validated
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-401 · Proof of contract
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-402 · Plaintiff's testimony - Corroboration required
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-403 · Questions considered in determining damages
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-404 · Measure of damages when defendant over sixty (60)
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-405 · Joinder with other actions prohibited
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-501 · Enforcement of antenuptial agreements
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-502 · Creditor's rights
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-503 · Antenuptial debts of wife - Nonliability of husband
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-504 · Disabilities of coverture removed from married women - Statute of limitations
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-505 · Tenancies by entirety unaffected
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-601 · Part definitions
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-602 · Petition - Venue
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-603 · Duration of protection order - Petition for protection order in divorce action
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-604 · Forms
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-605 · Ex parte protection order - Hearing - Extension
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-606 · Scope of protection order
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-607 · Bond not required
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-608 · Duration of protection order - Modification
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-609 · Effectiveness of order of protection - Service
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-610 · Violation of order or consent agreement - Civil or criminal contempt - Financial penalty
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-611 · Arrest for violation of protection order
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-612 · Contempt hearing
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-613 · Leaving residence or use of necessary force - Right to relief unaffected
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-614 · Effect of failure to contest parentage - Order of protection pending parentage tests and comparisons
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-615 · Notification to victim that family or household member arrested for assault may be released on bond
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-616 · Domestic violence community education fund
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-617 · Protection order - Filing costs and assistance
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-618 · Purpose - Legislative intent
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-619 · Officer response - Primary aggressor - Factors - Reports - Notice to victim of legal rights - Ex parte protection order
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-620 · Seizure of weapons in possession of alleged domestic abuser
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-621 · Wireless telephone service for victims of domestic violence
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-622 · Out-of-state protection orders
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-623 · Confidentiality of records of shelters, centers, providers
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-624 · Death review teams established - Protocol - Composition of teams - Disclosure of communications - Authority to subpoena
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-625 · Dispossession of firearms
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-626 · Authorization to carry handgun after order of protection granted and while application for temporary handgun permit pending
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-627 · Lifetime order of protection
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-3-701 · Tort action abolished
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-101 · Grounds for divorce from bonds of matrimony
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-102 · Legal separation
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-103 · Irreconcilable differences - Procedure
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-104 · Residence requirements
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-105 · Venue
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-106 · Complaint for divorce or legal separation - Temporary injunctions
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-107 · Verification of petition - Effect of noncompliance
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-108 · Security for costs - Service of process
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-109 · Time for hearing
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-110 · Appearance and answer
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-111 · Failure to separate not a defense
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-112 · Defense when ground is adultery
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-113 · Issues - Trial by jury - New trial
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-114 · Proof required
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-115 · Form of proof
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-116 · Affidavits of proof not required - Sworn statements concerning financial matters required - Sworn statements as evidence
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-117 · Proof when ground is spouse's refusal to remove to this state
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-118 · Proof when ground is conviction of crime
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-119 · Decree of court generally
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-120 · Ill conduct defense
- Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-4-121 · Division, distribution, or assignment of marital property - Allocation of marital debt