{"data":{"id":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-39-15-101","jurisdiction":"us-tn","citation":"Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-15-101","heading":"Nonsupport and flagrant nonsupport","body":"(a) 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. (b) \"Child\" includes legitimate children and children whose parentage has been admitted by the person charged or established by judicial action. (c) \"Support\" includes, but is not limited to, financial assistance, food, shelter, clothing, medical attention or, if determined elsewhere by law, other necessary care. (d) A person commits the offense of flagrant nonsupport who: (1) Leaves or remains without the state to avoid a legal duty of support; or (2) Having been convicted one (1) or more times of nonsupport or flagrant nonsupport, is convicted of a subsequent offense under this section. (e) (1) Nonsupport under subsection (a) is a Class A misdemeanor. (2) Flagrant nonsupport under subsection (d) is a Class E felony. Acts 1989, ch. 591, § 1.\n(a) 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.\n(b) \"Child\" includes legitimate children and children whose parentage has been admitted by the person charged or established by judicial action.\n(c) \"Support\" includes, but is not limited to, financial assistance, food, shelter, clothing, medical attention or, if determined elsewhere by law, other necessary care.\n(d) A person commits the offense of flagrant nonsupport who: (1) Leaves or remains without the state to avoid a legal duty of support; or (2) Having been convicted one (1) or more times of nonsupport or flagrant nonsupport, is convicted of a subsequent offense under this section.\n(1) Leaves or remains without the state to avoid a legal duty of support; or\n(2) Having been convicted one (1) or more times of nonsupport or flagrant nonsupport, is convicted of a subsequent offense under this section.\n(e) (1) Nonsupport under subsection (a) is a Class A misdemeanor. (2) Flagrant nonsupport under subsection (d) is a Class E felony.\n(1) Nonsupport under subsection (a) is a Class A misdemeanor.\n(2) Flagrant nonsupport under subsection (d) is a Class E felony.","path":["TN Code","Title 39","Chapter 15"],"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":"2f76a8775648cb67a9420b4e0f0ebd73d93635b7711e5c7f84b910590eaaed9d","source_id":"us-tn","stale":false,"prev":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-39-14-909","next":"us-tn/tenn.-code-ann.-39-15-102","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."}