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TN Code § 29-41-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 41 - Abusive Civil Actions|§ 29-41-105. Evidence Creating Rebuttable Presumption

 At the hearing conducted pursuant to § 29-41-104, evidence of any of the following creates a rebuttable presumption that the civil action is an abusive civil action and that the person filing the action is an abusive civil action plaintiff and prefiling restrictions should be imposed upon the abusive civil action plaintiff:   The same or substantially similar issues between the same or substantially similar civil action parties that are the subject of the alleged abusive civil action have been litigated against the civil action defendant within the past five (5) years in another court within the judicial district or another judicial district and the actions were dismissed on the merits or with prejudice against the civil action plaintiff;   The alleged abusive civil action plaintiff has used the same or substantially similar issues that are the subject of the current civil action as the basis for an adverse complaint against the civil action defendant to a regulatory or licensing board and the regulatory or licensing board dismissed the complaint after a contested case hearing in compliance with the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5;   The alleged abusive civil action plaintiff has been sanctioned under Rule 11 of the Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure or a similar rule or law in another state or the federal government for filing one (1) or more frivolous, vexatious, or abusive civil actions within the past ten (10) years of filing the current civil action alleged to be abusive and the previous frivolous, vexatious, or abusive civil actions involved the same or substantially the same issues between the same or substantially the same civil action parties; or   A court of record in another judicial district has determined that a civil action filed against the civil action defendant was an abusive civil action and is under or has been under prefiling restrictions in that judicial district.
TN Code § 29-41-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 29 - Remedies and Special Proceedings|Chapter 41 - Abusive Civil Actions|§ 29-41-106. Dismissal of Abusive Civil Actions — Remedies — Costs

  If the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that a person filing a civil action is an abusive civil action plaintiff, and that any or all civil actions filed by the abusive civil action plaintiff against the abusive civil action defendant that are pending before the court are abusive civil actions, the civil actions shall be dismissed.   In addition to dismissal of any pending abusive civil action within the jurisdiction of the court, the court shall:  Tax all costs of any abusive civil action pending in the court at the time of the court's finding pursuant to subsection (a) against the abusive civil action plaintiff;   Award the civil action defendant reasonable attorney fees and all reasonable costs of defending the abusive civil action; and   Impose prefiling restrictions upon any civil action the abusive civil action plaintiff attempts to file for a period of not less than forty-eight (48) months nor more than seventy-two (72) months.     If a civil action defendant alleges that a claim is an abusive civil action or that the plaintiff is an abusive civil action plaintiff, and the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the action was not an abusive civil action or that the plaintiff is not an abusive civil action plaintiff, the court may grant to the plaintiff such remedies as may be just, including granting judgment in favor of the plaintiff, granting partial judgment in favor of the plaintiff, or allowing factual interpretations in favor of the plaintiff.   If a civil action defendant alleges that a claim is an abusive civil action or that the plaintiff is an abusive civil action plaintiff, and the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the action was not an abusive civil action or that the plaintiff is not an abusive civil action plaintiff, the court may:  Tax all costs related to litigating the issue of whether the action is an abusive civil action or whether the plaintiff is an abusive civil action plaintiff, against the civil action defendant who made the claim; and   Award the civil action plaintiff reasonable attorney fees and all reasonable costs of defending the claim that the action was an abusive civil action or that the plaintiff was an abusive civil action plaintiff.
TN Code § 30-4-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 4 - Small Estates|§ 30-4-101. Short Title

 This chapter shall be known and may be cited as “The Small Estates Act.”
TN Code § 30-4-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 4 - Small Estates|§ 30-4-102. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:   “Affiant” means the person executing the affidavit provided for in § 30-4-103;   “Court” means the court then exercising probate jurisdiction in the county in which the decedent had legal residence on the date of death;   “Person” means an individual, partnership, firm, business trust, corporation or other legal entity, and includes both singular and plural and masculine and feminine, as appropriate;   “Property” means personal property, or any interest in personal property, owned by the decedent on the date of death, other than personal property held as tenants by the entirety or jointly with right of survivorship or personal property payable to a beneficiary other than the decedent's estate; and   “Small estate” means the estate of a decedent in which the value of the property does not exceed fifty thousand dollars ($50,000).
TN Code § 30-4-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 4 - Small Estates|§ 30-4-104. Administration by Affiant

  Every person indebted to decedent's estate, or having possession of any property belonging to the estate, or acting as registrar or transfer agent of any shares of stock, bonds, notes or other evidence of ownership, indebtedness, property or right belonging to decedent's estate shall be furnished a copy of the affidavit by the affiant, duly certified to by the clerk of the court, and upon receipt of the copy of affidavit, and upon demand of the affiant, shall pay, transfer and deliver to affiant all indebtedness owing by and other property in possession of or subject to registration and/or transfer by, the person to whom the copy of affidavit has been delivered.   Every person making payment, transfer or delivery of property belonging to a decedent's estate to the affiant pursuant to this chapter shall be released and discharged from all further liability to the estate and its creditors to the same extent as if the payment, transfer or delivery were made to the duly appointed, qualified and acting personal representative of the decedent, and the person making the payment, transfer or delivery shall not be required to see to its application or to inquire into the truth or completeness of any statement in the affidavit.   If the decedent left a will, the decedent's property shall be distributed as provided in the will, and if the decedent left no will it shall go to the decedent's heirs as provided by law in case of other intestacies, and both the affiant and the person to whom payment, transfer or delivery of any property is made by the affiant shall be and remain liable, to the extent of the value of the property so received, to unpaid creditors of the decedent and to every other person having a prior claim against the decedent's estate or prior right to any of the decedent's property, and also shall be accountable to any personal representative of the decedent thereafter appointed.   For a decedent dying before January 1, 2016, the affiant shall file returns and pay the tax on property in the decedent's estate, as required by title 67, chapter 8, parts 3-5, as now or hereafter amended, revised or recodified.   If any person having possession of any of the decedent's property, upon receipt of a copy of the affidavit certified by the clerk, refuses to pay, transfer or deliver the property to or at the direction of the affiant, the property may be recovered or transfer and delivery of the property compelled in an action brought in any court of competent jurisdiction for that purpose upon proof of the facts required to be stated in the affidavit, and costs of the proceeding shall be adjudged against a person wrongfully refusing to pay, transfer or deliver the property.
TN Code § 30-4-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 4 - Small Estates|§ 30-4-105. Construction of Chapter

 This chapter shall be cumulative to existing law relating to the administration of decedents' estates and is intended to provide an optional and alternative method for the administration of small estates.
TN Code § 30-5-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 5 - Insolvent Estates|§ 30-5-101. Initiation of Administration

 The administration of an insolvent estate shall begin upon the filing of a petition to probate or the application for letters of administration by the personal representative or a creditor in the court having probate jurisdiction.   Code 1858, § 2362 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 283, § 21); 1871, ch. 106, § 1; Shan., § 4102; mod. Code 1932, § 8298; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-701; Acts 1989, ch. 516, § 1.
TN Code § 30-5-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 5 - Insolvent Estates|§ 30-5-102. Notice of Insolvency — Filing — Copies

 After the time for filing claims has expired, as provided by § 30-2-310, if the estate is unable to pay all of its creditors, the personal representative shall file with the clerk a notice of insolvency. A copy of the notice shall be sent by certified mail, return receipt requested, to each creditor who has filed a claim. This notice may be mailed to creditors by the attorney for the estate, the personal representative or, if requested, by the clerk.   Code 1858, § 2328 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 283, § 4); Shan., § 4068; mod. Code 1932, § 8264; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-702; Acts 1989, ch. 516, § 2.
TN Code § 30-5-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 5 - Insolvent Estates|§ 30-5-103. Notice of Insolvency — Contents — Effect of No Objections

  The notice of insolvency shall contain an accounting of assets that have come into the hands of the personal representative and a proposed plan of distribution in accordance with § 30-2-317.   The notice shall bear, in a conspicuous manner, the following language: Objections to this proposed plan of distribution must be filed with the clerk within thirty (30) days from the date of receipt of this notice.   If no objections are filed within the thirty-day waiting period, the personal representative may execute the proposed plan of distribution and close the estate, relieving the personal representative of any further liability to the estate.    Code 1858, § 2329 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 283, § 5); Shan., § 4069; mod. Code 1932, § 8265; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-703; Acts 1989, ch. 516, § 3.
TN Code § 30-5-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 5 - Insolvent Estates|§ 30-5-104. Hearing on Objection to Plan — Notice

  If an objection to the proposed plan of distribution is filed with the clerk within the thirty-day waiting period, the clerk shall schedule a hearing no less than fifteen (15) nor more than thirty (30) days from the last day upon which objections may be filed.   The clerk shall give notice of the hearing date to the attorney for the estate, to the personal representative, to the creditor filing the objection, and to all claiming creditors.    Code 1858, § 2330 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 283, § 6); Shan., § 4070; mod. Code 1932, § 8266; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-704; Acts 1985, ch. 140, § 25; 1989, ch. 516, § 4; 1997, ch. 407, § 3.
TN Code § 30-5-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 5 - Insolvent Estates|§ 30-5-105. Clerk's Report — Exceptions

  Within ten (10) days of a hearing required under § 30-5-104, the clerk shall file a report to the court setting forth the clerk's findings.   If no exceptions are filed with the clerk, the clerk's report shall become the judgment of the court.    If an exception to the report is filed, the matter shall be determined by the court.   Upon final determination of an objection to a plan of distribution, distribution shall be made and the estate closed.      Code 1858, § 2355 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 283, § 18); Shan., § 4095; mod. Code 1932, § 8291; impl. am. Acts 1951, ch. 166, § 1(37); modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 30-705; Acts 1989, ch. 516, § 5.
TN Code § 31-1-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 31 - Descent and Distribution|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 31-1-101. Title Definitions

 As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Child” includes any individual, adopted or natural born, entitled to take as a child under this title by intestate succession from the parent whose relationship is involved and excludes any person who is only a stepchild, a foster child, a grandchild or any more remote descendant;   “Devise,” when used as a noun, means a testamentary disposition of real or personal property. “Devise,” when used as a verb, means to dispose of real or personal property by will;   “Devisee” means any person designated in a will to receive a devise. In the case of a devise to an existing trust or trustee, or to a trustee or trust described by a will, the trust or trustee is the devisee and the beneficiaries are not devisees;   “Distributee” means any person who has received property of a decedent from the personal representative other than as a creditor or purchaser;   “Heirs” means those persons, including the surviving spouse, who are entitled under the statutes of intestate succession to the property of a decedent;   “Issue” of a person means all the person's lineal descendants, adopted as well as natural born, of all generations, with the relationship of parent and child at each generation being determined by the definitions of child and parent contained in this title;   “Parent” includes any person entitled to take, or who would be entitled to take if the child, adopted or natural born, died without a will, as a parent under this title by intestate succession from the child whose relationship is in question and excludes any person who is only a stepparent, foster parent, or grandparent;   “Personal representative” includes executor, administrator, successor personal representative, special administrator, and persons who perform substantially the same function under the law governing their status; and   “Property” includes both real and personal property or any interest therein and means anything that may be the subject of ownership.
TN Code § 31-1-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 31 - Descent and Distribution|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 31-1-102. Effect of Divorce, Annulment, and Decree of Separation

  A person who is divorced from the decedent or whose marriage to the decedent has been annulled is not a surviving spouse unless, by virtue of a subsequent marriage, the person is married to the decedent at the time of death. A decree of separation that does not terminate the status of husband and wife is not a divorce for purposes of this section.   For purposes of this title, a surviving spouse does not include:  A person who obtains or consents to a final decree or judgment of divorce from the decedent or an annulment of their marriage, which decree or judgment is not recognized as valid in this state, unless they subsequently participate in a marriage ceremony purporting to marry each to the other, or subsequently live together as husband and wife;   A person who, following a valid or invalid decree or judgment of divorce or annulment obtained by the decedent, participates in a marriage ceremony with a third person; or   A person who was a party to a valid marital dissolution agreement or a valid proceeding concluded by an order purporting to terminate all marital property rights.
TN Code § 31-1-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 31 - Descent and Distribution|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 31-1-104. Descent of Homestead

  Unless the homestead has been converted to cash by order of the court pursuant to § 30-2-209, and distributed outright and in fee, the homestead exempt in the possession of or belonging to each head of a family shall, upon that person's death, any provision by will to the contrary notwithstanding, go to the surviving spouse during the surviving spouse's natural life, with the products of the homestead, for the surviving spouse's own use and benefit and that of the surviving spouse's family who reside with the surviving spouse, and, upon the surviving spouse's death, any provision by will to the contrary notwithstanding, it shall go to the minor children of the decedent, free from the debts of the father, mother, or children. Upon the death of the minor child or children, or their arrival of age, the land may be sold, and the proceeds distributed among the heirs of the deceased head of a family as if the head of the family had died intestate.   Upon the death of the head of a family, without surviving spouse or minor children, the land shall be subject to sale for the payment of the debts as may be legally established against the person's estate as in other cases, and the remainder distributed among the person's heirs.
TN Code § 31-1-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 31 - Descent and Distribution|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 31-1-105. Fraudulent Conveyance to Defeat Share Voidable

 Any conveyance made fraudulently to children or others, with an intent to defeat the surviving spouse of the surviving spouse's distributive or elective share, is, at the election of the surviving spouse, includable in the decedent's net estate under § 31-4-101(b), and voidable to the extent the other assets in the decedent's net estate are insufficient to fund and pay the elective share amount payable to the surviving spouse under § 31-4-101(c).
TN Code § 31-1-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 31 - Descent and Distribution|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 31-1-107. Federal Income Tax Refund or Soil Conservation Payments Due Deceased — to Whom Paid

  In any case where the United States treasury department determines there exists an overpayment of federal income tax and the person in whose favor the overpayment is determined is dead at the time the overpayment of tax is to be refunded and where no administrator or executor has been appointed within sixty (60) days of the death of the deceased person, and irrespective of whether the deceased had filed a joint and several or separate income tax return, the amount of the overpayment, if not in excess of five hundred dollars ($500), shall be the sole and separate property of the decedent's survivor or survivors, if any, entitled thereto in accordance with the laws of descent and distribution of the state, and refund of the overpayment directly to the survivor or survivors by the United States shall operate as a complete acquittal and discharge to it of liability from any suit, claim or demand of whatsoever nature by any creditor of the decedent or other person.   In the event the person to whom soil conservation payments are due from the United States under the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act (16 U.S.C. § 590a et seq.) of the Congress of the United States dies before the payments are made, then the payments shall be made to the surviving spouse of that person for the use of the surviving spouse and minor children, and in the event there are minor children and no surviving spouse (the mother or father of the minor children), then and in that event the payments shall be made to the natural guardian of the minor children; and in the event there is no surviving spouse, or minor children, then the payments shall be made to those entitled under the laws of descent and distribution of the state, unless the deceased leaves a will, in which event they shall be made to those entitled under the will. All such payments shall be free from the claims of any and all creditors, except the United States.
TN Code § 31-1-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 31 - Descent and Distribution|Chapter 1 - General Provisions|§ 31-1-108. Tenancies by the Entirety Unaffected

 Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as abolishing tenancies by the entirety.
TN Code § 31-2-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 31 - Descent and Distribution|Chapter 2 - Intestate Succession|§ 31-2-101. Intestate Estate

  When any person dies intestate, after the payment of debts and charges against the estate, the deceased's property passes to the deceased's heirs as prescribed in the following sections of this chapter.   Any part of the estate of a decedent not effectively disposed of by the deceased's will passes to the deceased's heirs in the same manner.
TN Code § 31-2-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 31 - Descent and Distribution|Chapter 2 - Intestate Succession|§ 31-2-102. Dower and Curtesy Abolished

 Dower and curtesy, as formerly known, are abolished. This section shall neither abridge nor affect rights that have vested before April 1, 1977.
TN Code § 31-2-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 31 - Descent and Distribution|Chapter 2 - Intestate Succession|§ 31-2-103. Vesting of Estate — Net Estate

 The real property of an intestate decedent shall vest immediately upon death of the decedent in the heirs as provided in § 31-2-104. The real property of a testate decedent vests immediately upon death in the beneficiaries named in the will, unless the will contains a specific provision directing the real property to be administered as part of the estate subject to the control of the personal representative. Upon qualifying, the personal representative shall be vested with the personal property of the decedent for the purpose of first paying administration expenses, taxes, and funeral expenses and then for the payment of all other debts or obligations of the decedent as provided in § 30-2-317. If the decedent's personal property is insufficient for the discharge or payment of a decedent's obligations, the personal representative may utilize the decedent's real property in accordance with title 30, chapter 2, part 4. After payment of debts and charges against the estate, the personal representative shall distribute the personal property of an intestate decedent to the decedent's heirs as prescribed in § 31-2-104, and the property of a testate decedent to the distributees as prescribed in the decedent's will.