{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-34-8-204","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 34-8-204","heading":"Special jurisdiction","body":"(a) A court of this state lacking jurisdiction under § 34-8-203(1)-(3) has special jurisdiction to do any of the following: (1) Appoint a conservator or guardian in an emergency for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days for a respondent who is physically present in this state; (2) Issue a protective order with respect to real or tangible personal property located in this state; and (3) Appoint a conservator or guardian for a respondent for whom a provisional order to transfer the proceeding from another state has been issued under procedures similar to § 34-8-301 . (b) If a petition for the appointment of a conservator or guardian in an emergency is brought in this state and this state was not the respondent's home state on the date the petition was filed, the court shall dismiss the proceeding at the request of the court of the home state, if any, whether dismissal is requested before or after the emergency appointment. Acts 2010, ch. 817, § 1.\n(a) A court of this state lacking jurisdiction under § 34-8-203(1)-(3) has special jurisdiction to do any of the following: (1) Appoint a conservator or guardian in an emergency for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days for a respondent who is physically present in this state; (2) Issue a protective order with respect to real or tangible personal property located in this state; and (3) Appoint a conservator or guardian for a respondent for whom a provisional order to transfer the proceeding from another state has been issued under procedures similar to § 34-8-301 .\n(1) Appoint a conservator or guardian in an emergency for a term not exceeding ninety (90) days for a respondent who is physically present in this state;\n(2) Issue a protective order with respect to real or tangible personal property located in this state; and\n(3) Appoint a conservator or guardian for a respondent for whom a provisional order to transfer the proceeding from another state has been issued under procedures similar to § 34-8-301 .\n(b) If a petition for the appointment of a conservator or guardian in an emergency is brought in this state and this state was not the respondent's home state on the date the petition was filed, the court shall dismiss the proceeding at the request of the court of the home state, if any, whether dismissal is requested before or after the emergency appointment.","path":["TN Code","Title 34","Chapter 8"],"source_url":"https://oss-data-us.vaquill.ai/v2026.08/us_tn_statutes.parquet","current_through":"2026-08-14","vintage":"open-us-law v2026.08, retrieved 2026-09-17","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:51:56Z","sha256":"e9af149d6390dc85fcd19c69fe19d739207cdf9a6bec331b58d5aaded4ba6105","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-34-8-203","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-34-8-205","notices":[{"id":"open-us-law","title":"Open US Law compilation","text":"Compilation CC BY 4.0, Open US Law (Vaquill AI). GroundRules uses only the releases published under CC BY 4.0: from v2026.09 the compilation is licensed CC BY-NC 4.0, and GroundRules does not use those releases. Each affected row names its release in its vintage label. GroundRules parsed and filtered the compilation to retain enacted text.","url":"https://huggingface.co/datasets/vaquill/open-us-law","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"},{"id":"pro-tn","title":"Tennessee Release 76 supplement","text":"Tennessee electronic product files were republished by Public.Resource.Org under a public-domain mark. GroundRules uses enacted text from Release 76 only as a labeled supplement to the newer Open US Law rows.","url":"https://archive.org/details/gov.tn.tca"}]},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}