{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-35-50-127","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 35-50-127","heading":"Release of personal health information to determine capacity.","body":"Where it is necessary, under the terms of a trust to determine the mental or physical incapacity of a patient, a healthcare provider may release personal health information to a licensed physician or licensed attorney at law if the physician or attorney at law signs and furnishes the healthcare provider with an affidavit that the release of information is necessary to determine the mental or physical incapacity of the patient, or of the settlor, or of the donor, or of the trustee, or of the agent or other fiduciary under a trust that was signed by the patient where incapacity causes the document to come into effect, discontinues its effect or calls for a change in a fiduciary acting under the document.","path":["Title 35 Fiduciaries And Trust Estates","Chapter 50 Miscellaneous Provisions"],"source_url":"https://archive.org/download/gov.tn.tca/release76.2021.05.21/gov.tn.tca.title.35.odt","current_through":"2021-05-21","vintage":"Tennessee Code Release 76 (2021-05), retrieved 2026-09-17; absent from the newer snapshot, which serves other sections of this chapter, so it may since have been repealed or amended","retrieved_at":"2026-09-17T21:54:53Z","sha256":"b545357e45587a39295da65fc16fc2ab1684649804c7ff1dee370d67d2756a84","source_id":"us-tn","stale":true,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-35-50-114","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-43-14-220"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}