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TN Code § 32-3-115 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 3 - Construction, Operation and Effect|§ 32-3-115. Written Statement or List to Dispose of Items of Tangible Personal Property

   Notwithstanding the requirements of a holographic will, a will may refer to a written statement or list to dispose of items of tangible personal property not otherwise specifically disposed of by the will, other than money, evidences of indebtedness, documents of title, securities, and property used in a trade or business.   To be admissible under this section as evidence of the intended disposition, the writing:  Must:   Be either in the handwriting of the testator or signed by the testator;   Be dated; and   Describe the items and the devisees with reasonable certainty;     May be prepared before or after the execution of the will;   May be altered by the testator after its preparation, provided that the testator signs and dates the alteration; and   May be a writing that has no significance apart from its effect upon the dispositions made by the will.     If more than one (1) otherwise effective writings exist or a single writing contains properly signed and dated alterations, the provisions of the most recent writing or alteration revoke any inconsistent provisions of all prior writing.     A personal representative is not liable for any distribution of tangible personal property to the apparent devisee under the testator's will without actual knowledge of the written statement or list, as described in subsection (a), and the personal representative has no duty to recover property distributed without knowledge of the written statement or list.   If the writing is admitted to the probate proceeding as permitted in subsection (a), the recipient or recipients of items distributed in accordance with the written list or statement shall file a receipt for the item or items received in accordance with § 30-2-707.
TN Code § 32-4-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 4 - Contest|§ 32-4-101. Certificate That Will Is Contested — Contestant's Bond

  If the validity of any last will or testament, written or nuncupative, is contested, then the court having probate jurisdiction over that last will or testament must enter an order sustaining or denying the contestant's right to contest the will. If the right to contest the will is sustained, then the court must:  Require the contestant to enter into bond, with surety, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars ($500), payable to the executor mentioned in the will, conditioned for the faithful prosecution of the suit, and in case of failure in the suit, to pay all costs that may accrue on the suit; and   Cause a certificate of the contest and the original will to be filed with the appropriate court for trial.     As used in this section, the term “the appropriate court for trial” means the court elected by the contestant, in the notice of contest, to conduct a trial upon the validity of the will.    Code 1858, § 2173 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 5, § 9; 1835-1836, ch. 18, § 2); Shan., § 3905; Code 1932, § 8103; Acts 1980, ch. 765, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-401; Acts 2002, ch. 631, § 1.
TN Code § 32-4-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 4 - Contest|§ 32-4-102. Bond of Legatee or Devisee

  If the legatees or devisees, or any of them, are adults, and have notice that the probate of the will is contested, the court shall require them to enter into bond, with surety, in the penal sum of five hundred dollars ($500), conditioned for the faithful prosecution of the suit, and, in case of failure in the suit, to pay all costs that may accrue on the suit, but an adult legatee or devisee who makes known in writing, to be entered of record, to the court that the adult legatee or devisee claims nothing under the will, and is willing that it be set aside, shall not be required to enter into bond.   If all the legatees or devisees are adults, and refuse or fail to enter into a bond, the will shall not be admitted to probate, but shall be held for naught, and the property of the supposed testator shall be distributed as the property of an intestate.    Code 1858, §§ 2174, 2175 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 77, § 1); Shan., §§ 3906, 3907; Code 1932, §§ 8104, 8105; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 32-402, 32-403.
TN Code § 32-4-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 4 - Contest|§ 32-4-103. Contest in Forma Pauperis

 Persons may be permitted to have an issue made upon any will, either as plaintiffs or defendants, in the form prescribed for paupers.   Code 1858, § 2176 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 77, § 3); Shan., § 3908; Code 1932, § 8106; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-404.
TN Code § 32-4-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 4 - Contest|§ 32-4-104. Issues — When and How Made Up — When Triable

 After the filing of the certificate of the contest and the original will, in the office of the clerk of the appropriate court for trial, pursuant to § 32-4-101(2), an issue or issues shall be made up, under the direction of the court, to try the validity of the will.   Code 1858, § 2177 (deriv. Acts 1835-1836, ch. 5, § 9); Shan., § 3909; Acts 1925, ch. 8, § 1; Code 1932, § 8107; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-405; Acts 2002, ch. 631, § 2.
TN Code § 32-4-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 4 - Contest|§ 32-4-105. Proof of Will

 Upon the trial of the issue in case of a written will with witnesses, it shall be proved by all the living witnesses, if to be found, and by such other persons as may be produced to support it.   Code 1858, § 2178 (deriv. Acts 1789, ch. 23, § 1); Shan., § 3910; Code 1932, § 8108; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-406.
TN Code § 32-4-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 4 - Contest|§ 32-4-106. Original Will Lost

 If the original will is lost or mislaid so that it cannot be produced on the trial of the issue, but the paper has been copied into the pleadings, or spread upon the minutes of the court, the court may proceed with the trial of the issue in the same manner as if the original were in existence and before it.   Code 1858, § 2179 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 77, § 2); Shan., § 3911; Code 1932, § 8109; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-407.
TN Code § 32-4-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 4 - Contest|§ 32-4-107. Trial by Jury — Certification to Probate Court

  The issue may be tried by a jury, and their verdict, and the judgment of the court upon the validity of the will shall be certified to the court having probate jurisdiction over the will to be recorded together with the original will, if established.   If the issue was tried upon a copy of the original will, the copy shall be sent to the court to be recorded, and the certificate, copy, verdict, and judgment shall have the same effect as if the original paper writing were in existence and so certified to the court having probate jurisdiction over the will.    Code 1858, §§ 2180, 2181 (deriv. Acts 1789, ch. 23, § 1; 1835-1836, ch. 5, § 9; 1851-1852, ch. 77, § 2); Shan., §§ 3912, 3913; Code 1932, §§ 8110, 8111; Acts 1980, ch. 765, §§ 2, 3; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), §§ 32-408, 32-409; Acts 1992, ch. 951, § 9.
TN Code § 32-4-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 4 - Contest|§ 32-4-108. Statute of Limitations

 All actions or proceedings to set aside the probate of any will, or petitions to certify a will for an issue of devisavit vel non, must be brought within two (2) years from entry of the order admitting the will to probate, or be forever barred, saving, however, to persons under the age of eighteen (18) years or adjudicated incompetent, at the time the cause of action accrues, the rights conferred by § 28-1-106.
TN Code § 32-4-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 4 - Contest|§ 32-4-109. Trials Upon Validity of Wills — Jurisdiction of Courts

 Any court of record that has probate jurisdiction, whether a chancery court or other court of record established by private or public act, has concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court to conduct a trial upon the validity of a will, in the manner and to the extent prescribed in this chapter. Notwithstanding law to the contrary, prior to certification of the fact of the contest pursuant to § 32-4-101(a)(2), the contestant shall elect, in the notice of contest, either the circuit court or the chancery court, or other court of record having such concurrent jurisdiction, to conduct a trial upon the validity of the will.
TN Code § 32-5-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 5 - Administration Upon Foreign Wills|§ 32-5-101. Recording Will

 A will, duly proved, allowed and admitted to probate outside of this state, may be allowed and recorded in the proper court of any county in this state, in which the testator has left any estate.
TN Code § 32-5-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 5 - Administration Upon Foreign Wills|§ 32-5-102. Executors of Other States Qualifying — Bond

 When there are goods and chattels in this state to be administered under a will of another state, district or territory, the executors, or some one of them, may qualify as executors, and they shall give bond, with surety, as required in cases where the will was made within the limits of this state, and they shall be subject to be proceeded against as in other cases.   Code 1858, § 2189 (deriv. Acts 1823, ch. 31, § 3); Shan., § 3921; Code 1932, § 8122; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-510.
TN Code § 32-5-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 5 - Administration Upon Foreign Wills|§ 32-5-103. Petition for Probate — Hearing — Notice

 When a copy of a will of another state, district, or territory and the probate of the will, duly authenticated, is presented by the executor or by any other person interested in the will, with a petition for probate of the will, the will must be filed and probate may be had either in common or in solemn form, and if the latter, then a time must be appointed for a hearing and notice must be given as is required by law on a petition for the original probate of a domestic will in solemn form; provided, however, that a contest of a will of another state, district, or territory upon the issue devisavit vel non shall be allowed as to a devise of realty lying in this state, but as to devises of personalty, the foreign probate of such will shall be conclusive.
TN Code § 32-5-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 5 - Administration Upon Foreign Wills|§ 32-5-104. Admitting Will to Probate

 If upon the hearing, it appears to the satisfaction of the court that the will has been duly proved, allowed and admitted to probate outside of the state, and that it was executed according to the law of the place in which the will was made, or in which the testator was at the time domiciled, or in conformity with the laws of this state, it must be admitted to probate, which probate shall have the same force and effect as the original probate of a domestic will.
TN Code § 32-5-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 5 - Administration Upon Foreign Wills|§ 32-5-105. Unprobated Will From State or Country Not Requiring Probate

  When a duly authenticated copy of a will from any state or country, where probate is not required by the laws of that state or country, with a duly authenticated certificate of the legal custodian of the original will that the copy is a true copy, and that the will has become operative by the laws of that state or country, and when a copy of a notarial will in possession of a notary in a foreign state or country entitled to the custody of the will, the laws of which state or country require that the will remain in the custody of the notary, duly authenticated by the notary, is presented by the executor or other persons interested to the proper court in this state, that court shall appoint a time and place of hearing and notice of the hearing shall be given as in case of an original will presented for probate.   If it appears to the court that the instrument ought to be allowed in this state, as the last will and testament of the deceased, the copy shall be filed and recorded, and the will shall have the same effect as if originally proved and allowed in the court.
TN Code § 32-5-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 5 - Administration Upon Foreign Wills|§ 32-5-106. Contest

 Any person interested to contest the validity of a will of another country, state, district, or territory as to realty may do so in the same manner and time limit as though it had been originally presented for probate in that court.   Code 1858, § 2190 (deriv. Acts 1823, ch. 31, § 3); Shan., § 3922; mod. Code 1932, § 8118; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-506.
TN Code § 32-5-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 5 - Administration Upon Foreign Wills|§ 32-5-107. Authentication

 Any copy of a will from another state, District of Columbia or territory shall be authenticated in the manner prescribed by 28 U.S.C. §§ 1738 and 1739.   Code 1858, § 2186 (deriv. Acts 1843-1844, ch. 187, § 1); Shan., § 3918; mod. Code 1932, § 8119; modified; impl. am. Acts 1972, ch. 565, § 1; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-507.
TN Code § 32-5-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 5 - Administration Upon Foreign Wills|§ 32-5-108. Copy of Will as Evidence

 A copy of a will from another state, District of Columbia or territory, as recorded, certified by the clerk of the court in this state where copy is recorded, shall be evidence.   Code 1858, § 2188 (deriv. Acts 1823, ch. 31, § 2; 1843-1844, ch. 187, § 1); Shan., § 3920; mod. Code 1932, § 8120; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-508.
TN Code § 32-5-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 5 - Administration Upon Foreign Wills|§ 32-5-109. Registration of Will as Muniment of Title

 A copy of a will, foreign or domestic, certified by the clerk, may be registered in the county where the land lies as a muniment of title, and a copy from the books of the register, duly certified by the register, shall be evidence.   Code 1858, § 2183 (deriv. Acts 1823, ch. 31, § 2); Shan., § 3915; mod. Code 1932, § 8121; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-509.
TN Code § 32-5-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 5 - Administration Upon Foreign Wills|§ 32-5-110. Foreign Unprobated Wills

  Where a foreign will has not been probated in another jurisdiction, any person interested may apply for its probate before the probate court of the county in this state in which the real estate or any part of the real estate is located.   To that end the interested person shall present a petition to the probate court, setting forth the death of the foreign testator, the decedent's ownership of lands in the county, and the fact of the decedent's testacy, whereupon the court shall authorize the taking of such proof as may be necessary to prove the will in accordance with the laws of this state.    Depositions may be taken either upon interrogatories filed in the court for ten (10) days, or by oral examination at a time and place designated by the court.   No notice shall be required of the taking of the depositions, save any resulting from the making of the order for the depositions by the court.   When the depositions are taken by oral examination, the time that elapses between the making of the order for the depositions and the taking of the depositions shall not be less than the time prescribed for notice for taking depositions under the general laws.     Should it not be possible to exhibit to the depositions and produce before the probate court the original will, a copy of the will may be so used, the necessary witnesses proving that it is a true copy of the original.   On being admitted to probate, the probate shall have the same force and effect as to real estate as the probate in this state of wills of residents of this state have as to lands devised by them, but nothing in this section is to prevent the proving of foreign wills as at common law and without probate.   The will shall, as to real estate, be to the same extent and in the same manner as domestic wills subject to contest in the state, and certified copies of the record in the probate court shall be available as evidence as are copies of domestic wills and probate of domestic wills; provided, however, that nothing in this section shall apply to wills dated more than fifty-five (55) years prior to the enactment of this Code.
TN Code § 32-11-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 11 - Living Wills|§ 32-11-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Tennessee Right to Natural Death Act.”
TN Code § 32-11-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 11 - Living Wills|§ 32-11-102. Legislative Intent

  The general assembly declares it to be the law of the state that every person has the fundamental and inherent right to die naturally with as much dignity as circumstances permit and to accept, refuse, withdraw from, or otherwise control decisions relating to the rendering of the person's own medical care, specifically including palliative care and the use of extraordinary procedures and treatment. The general assembly further declares that it is in the public interest to facilitate recovery of organs and/or tissues for transplantation and to provide mechanisms for individuals to express their desire to donate their organs and/or tissues.   The general assembly does further empower the exercise of this right by written declaration, called a “living will,” as provided in this chapter.
TN Code § 32-11-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 11 - Living Wills|§ 32-11-103. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Competent person” means an individual who is able to understand and appreciate the nature and consequences of a decision to accept or refuse treatment;   “Declarant” means an individual who declares a living will under this chapter;   “Health care provider,” “health care facility” or “health facility” means a person, facility or institution licensed or authorized to provide health or medical care;   “Living will” means a written declaration, pursuant to this chapter, stating declarant's desires for medical care or noncare, including palliative care, and other related matters such as organ donation and body disposal;   “Medical care” includes any procedure or treatment rendered by a physician or health care provider designed to diagnose, assess or treat a disease, illness or injury. These include, but are not limited to: surgery; drugs; transfusions; mechanical ventilation; dialysis; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; artificial or forced feeding of nourishment, hydration or other basic nutrients, regardless of the method used; radiation therapy; or any other medical act designed for diagnosis, assessment or treatment or to sustain, restore or supplant vital body function. This part shall not be interpreted to allow the withholding or withdrawal of simple nourishment or fluids so as to condone death by starvation or dehydration unless the instrument that creates a living will or durable power of attorney for health care includes the following or substantially the following: “I authorize the withholding or withdrawal of artificially provided food, water or other nourishment or fluids”;   “Organ donation” means a procedure to recover vascular organs following a declaration of death pursuant to § 68-3-501(b)(2), but prior to removal from artificial support systems;   “Palliative care” includes any measure taken by a physician or health care provider designed primarily to maintain the patient's comfort. These also include, but are not limited to, sedatives and pain-killing drugs, nonartificial oral feeding, suction, hydration and hygienic care;   “Physician” means any person licensed or permitted to practice medical care under title 63, chapters 6 and 9;   “Terminal condition” means any disease, illness, injury or condition, including, but not limited to, a coma or persistent vegetative state, sustained by any human being, from which there is no reasonable medical expectation of recovery and that, as a medical probability, will result in the death of the human being, regardless of the use or discontinuance of medical treatment implemented for the purpose of sustaining life, or the life processes; and   “Tissue donation” means a procedure to recover tissue following a declaration of death pursuant to § 68-3-501(b)(1), and following removal from artificial support systems.
TN Code § 32-11-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 11 - Living Wills|§ 32-11-104. Execution of Declaration

  Any competent adult person may execute a declaration directing the withholding or withdrawal of medical care to the person, to become effective on loss of competency. The declaration must be in writing and signed by the principal. The declaration is valid if the principal's signature is either attested by a notary public with no witnesses or witnessed by two (2) witnesses without attestation by a notary public. A witness is a competent adult, who is not the agent, and at least one (1) of whom is not related to the principal by blood, marriage, or adoption and would not be entitled to any portion of the estate of the principal upon the death of the principal under any will or codicil made by the principal existing at the time of execution of the declaration or by operation of law then existing. The declaration shall contain an attestation clause that attests to the witnesses' compliance with the requirements of this subsection (a). The declaration shall be substantially in the form established in § 32-11-105. It is the intent of the general assembly that this subsection (a) have retroactive application.   It is the responsibility of the declarant or someone acting on the declarant's behalf to deliver a copy of the living will or declaration to the attending physician and/or other concerned health care provider. An attending physician who is so notified shall make the declaration, or a copy of it, part of the declarant's medical record.
TN Code § 32-11-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 11 - Living Wills|§ 32-11-106. Revocation of Declaration

 A declaration may be revoked at any time by the declarant, without regard to the declarant's mental state or competency, by any of the following methods, effectively communicated by the declarant to the attending physician or other concerned health care provider:   Written revocation by the declarant, dated and signed by the declarant.   By oral statement or revocation made by the declarant to the attending physician. This revocation shall be made a part of the declarant's medical record by the attending physician.
TN Code § 32-11-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 11 - Living Wills|§ 32-11-107. Effective Date of Declaration — Subsequent Declarations — Incapacitated Declarants

 A declaration shall be effective from the date of its execution until revoked in a manner prescribed by this chapter. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent a declarant from reexecuting a declaration at any time in accordance with the formalities of this chapter, including reexecution after a diagnosis of a terminal condition. If the declarant has executed more than one (1) declaration, then the latest declaration known to the attending physician shall take precedence. If the declarant becomes comatose or if the declarant's condition renders the declarant incapable of communicating with the attending physician, the declaration shall remain in effect during the comatose condition or until the declarant's condition renders the declarant able to communicate with the attending physician.