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TN Code § 30-3-202 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 3 - Absentees' Estates|Part 2 - Conservators|§ 30-3-202. Jurisdiction — Grounds for Appointment

 The chancery or probate court has jurisdiction to appoint a conservator of the estate of an absentee as defined in this part upon a showing that:   The absentee has an interest in any form of property in this state, or is a legal resident of this state, or has a spouse or next of kin who is a legal resident of this state, and the absentee has not provided an adequate power of attorney authorizing another to act in the absentee's behalf with regard to the property or interest or the term of any such power of attorney has expired; and   A necessity exists for providing care for the property or estate of the absentee or care for or judgments concerning the absentee's spouse and children; or if the absentee has no spouse and children, the absentee's mother or father.
TN Code § 30-3-203 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 3 - Absentees' Estates|Part 2 - Conservators|§ 30-3-203. Transfer of Property Without Conservatorship

  If the spouse of any person defined as an absentee in § 30-3-201(1), or next of kin if the absentee has no spouse, wishes to sell or transfer any property of the absentee that has a gross value of less than five thousand dollars ($5,000), or requires the consent of the absentee in any matter regarding the absentee's children, or in any other matter in which the gross value of the subject matter is less than five thousand dollars ($5,000), the spouse or next of kin may apply to the chancery or probate court for an order authorizing the sale, transfer, or consent, without opening a full conservatorship proceeding as provided by this part. The spouse or next of kin may make the application without the assistance of an attorney.   The application shall be made by petition on the following form, which form shall be made readily available to the applicant by the clerk and master of the chancery court and the clerk of the probate court:  In re:  , case number   absentee   PETITION FOR SUMMARY RELIEF   Petitioner,  whose residence is  (street and number)   (city or town), and   (county) Tennessee, and who is the   of the absentee,  ,   describe relationship to absentee           name   states that the absentee has been  (imprisoned or missing in action)   since  (date) when  (describe details)   Petitioner desires to sell/transfer  (describe property)   of the value of  because   value           give reasons   The terms of sale/transfer are  (give terms)   Petitioner requires the consent of the absentee for the purpose of  .   Petitioner   State of Tennessee   County of   The above named,  (petitioner's name), being by me duly sworn, says the   foregoing petition is true and correct to the best of his/her knowledge and belief.   Notary Public   My commission expires  .    The court shall, without hearing or notice, enter an order on the petition if it deems the relief requested in the petition necessary to protect the best interests of the absentee or the absentee's dependents.   The order shall be prima facie evidence of the validity of the proceedings and the authority of the petitioner to make a conveyance or transfer of the property or to give the absentee's consent in any matter prescribed by subsections (a) and (b) of this section.
TN Code § 30-3-204 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 3 - Absentees' Estates|Part 2 - Conservators|§ 30-3-204. Limited Conservatorship for Specific Property

  If the spouse, or the next of kin if there is no spouse, of any person defined as an absentee under § 30-3-201(1), wishes to sell, lease, or mortgage specific property having a gross value of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more, owned by the absentee or in which the absentee had an interest, or take specific action with respect to the absentee's interest having a gross value of five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more, the spouse or next of kin may petition the chancery or probate court for an order authorizing the action with respect to that property or interest.   The petition shall be sworn to by the petitioner and shall state:  The names, addresses, and age of the spouse, children, mother, father, brothers, and sisters, or if none of these are living, the next of kin, of the absentee;   The name, address, and age of any other person who would have an interest in the property or the estate of the absentee if the absentee were deceased;   The exact circumstances that cause the person missing to be an absentee under § 30-3-201, including the date the absentee was first known missing, interned, beleaguered, etc.;   The reasons for the action for which the petition seeks authorization;   Whether or not the person alleged to be an absentee has a will, the whereabouts of the will and contents if known; and   A statement of all property constituting an asset of the alleged absentee's estate or in which the absentee has any interest and the approximate value of that property.     Notice of the hearing on the petition shall be given to all persons named in the petition by registered mail or certified mail with return receipt requested.   The judge shall hear evidence on the question of whether the person alleged to be missing, interned, beleaguered, etc., is an absentee as defined by § 30-3-201, and on the question of whether the action in question should be authorized. Any person interested in the proceedings may intervene with leave of the court.   The court may in its discretion appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the alleged absentee at the hearing.   If after hearing, the court is satisfied that the person alleged to be an absentee is an absentee, as defined in § 30-3-201, and that the action in question should be authorized, and that there is no necessity for a full conservatorship as provided by § 30-3-205, the court shall enter an order appointing the petitioner as conservator for the purposes of the action that is the subject of the petition and authorizing the conservator to take the action requested in the petition. The court shall require the conservator to account for the proceeds of the sale, lease, or other action, but the conservator shall not be required to subject the other property of the absentee to a conservatorship proceeding.   The court may retain jurisdiction of the proceeding to make such further orders as it deems proper.
TN Code § 30-3-205 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 3 - Absentees' Estates|Part 2 - Conservators|§ 30-3-205. Petition for Appointment

  The jurisdiction of the court shall be invoked by the filing of a petition by any person who would have an interest in the property or estate of the absentee were the absentee deceased, or any person who is dependent on the absentee for maintenance or support.   The petition shall be sworn to by the petitioner and shall state:  The names, addresses, and age of the spouse, children, mother, father, brothers, and sisters, or if none of these are living, the next of kin, of the absentee;   The name, address, and age of any other person who would have an interest in the property or the estate of the absentee if the absentee were deceased;   The exact circumstances that cause the person missing to be an absentee under § 30-3-201, including the date the absentee was first known missing, interned, beleaguered, etc.;   The necessity for establishing a conservatorship;   Whether or not the person alleged to be an absentee has a will and the whereabouts of the will; and   A statement of all property constituting an asset of the alleged absentee's estate or in which the absentee has any interest and the approximate value of that property.
TN Code § 30-3-206 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 3 - Absentees' Estates|Part 2 - Conservators|§ 30-3-206. Hearing on Petition — Notice — Appointment

  Notice of the hearing on the petition to appoint a conservator shall be given to all persons named in the petition by registered mail, certified mail with return receipt requested or by personal service of legal process.   The judge shall hear evidence on the question of whether the person alleged to be missing, interned, beleaguered, etc., is an absentee as defined by § 30-3-201, and on the question of who is entitled to appointment as conservator. Any person interested in the proceedings may intervene with leave of the court.   The court may in its discretion appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the alleged absentee at the hearing.   If after hearing, the court is satisfied that the person alleged to be an absentee is an absentee, as defined in § 30-3-201, and that it is necessary that a conservatorship be established, the court shall appoint a conservator of the estate and property of the absentee to take charge of the absentee's estate and property under the supervision and subject to the further orders of the court.   In the appointment of a conservator, the court shall give due consideration to the appointment of one (1) of the next of kin of the absentee if the next of kin is a fit and proper person and is qualified to act.
TN Code § 30-3-207 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 3 - Absentees' Estates|Part 2 - Conservators|§ 30-3-207. Oath and Bond

  Every conservator, before exercising authority as conservator, shall take oath to faithfully perform the duties of conservator and to render true accounts whenever required according to law, which oath may be administered by any officer authorized to administer oaths under the laws of this state. The oath shall be filed with the court.   The court may require the conservator to give bond in the same manner as that required of incompetents as set forth in title 34, chapter 4 [repealed].
TN Code § 30-3-208 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 3 - Absentees' Estates|Part 2 - Conservators|§ 30-3-208. Duties

 The conservator shall have all the rights, powers, and duties of a guardian of the property as established in title 34, chapters 1 and 2, and an absentee and an absentee's dependents shall be entitled to all benefits accruing to a ward or a ward's dependents under those chapters. The court shall have the same responsibility as to a conservatorship as with respect to the guardianship of the property under those chapters.
TN Code § 30-3-209 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 3 - Absentees' Estates|Part 2 - Conservators|§ 30-3-209. Resignation and Discharge

 The provision for resignation and discharge of conservators for estates of incompetents as set forth in § 34-4-113 [repealed] shall apply in the chancery or probate court for the resignation and discharge of a conservator appointed under this part.
TN Code § 30-3-210 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 30 - Administration of Estates|Chapter 3 - Absentees' Estates|Part 2 - Conservators|§ 30-3-210. Termination of Conservatorship

  At any time upon petition signed by the absentee, or on petition of an attorney in fact acting under an adequate power of attorney granted by the absentee, the court shall direct the termination of the conservatorship and the transfer of all property held under the conservatorship to the absentee or to the designated attorney in fact.   Likewise, if at any time subsequent to the appointment of a conservator it appears that the absentee has died and a personal representative has been appointed for the absentee's estate, the court shall direct the termination of the conservatorship and the transfer of all property of the deceased absentee held under the conservatorship to the personal representative.   When the need for a conservatorship terminates, the conservator shall promptly file final accountings and application for discharge with the court. If it appears to the court that the accountings are correct and that the conservator has made full and complete transfer of the absentee's assets as directed, the court may approve the accountings and discharge the conservator. If objections to the accountings are filed, the judge shall conduct a hearing under the same conditions for a hearing on objections to annual accountings.   The discharge shall operate as a release from the duties of the conservatorship and as a bar to any suit against the conservator or the conservator's surety, unless the suit is commenced within one (1) year from the date of discharge.
TN Code § 32-1-101 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-101. Chapter Definitions

 As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:   “Person” includes either man or woman, single or married; and   “Will” includes codicil.
TN Code § 32-1-102 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-102. Persons Qualified to Make a Will

 Any person of sound mind eighteen (18) years of age or older may make a will.
TN Code § 32-1-103 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-103. Witnesses — Who May Act

  Any person competent to be a witness generally in this state may act as attesting witness to a will.   No will is invalidated because attested by an interested witness, but any interested witness shall, unless the will is also attested by two (2) disinterested witnesses, forfeit so much of the provisions therein made for the interested witness as in the aggregate exceeds in value, as of the date of the testator's death, what the interested witness would have received had the testator died intestate.   No attesting witness is interested unless the will gives to the attesting witness some personal and beneficial interest.
TN Code § 32-1-104 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-104. Will Other Than Holographic or Nuncupative — Signatures

  The execution of a will, other than a holographic or nuncupative will, must be by the signature of the testator and of at least two (2) witnesses as follows:  The testator shall signify to the attesting witnesses that the instrument is the testator's will and either:  The testator sign;   Acknowledge the testator's signature already made; or   At the testator's direction and in the testator's presence have someone else sign the testator's name; and   In any of the above cases the act must be done in the presence of two (2) or more attesting witnesses.     The attesting witnesses must sign:  In the presence of the testator; and   In the presence of each other.        For wills executed prior to July 1, 2016, to the extent necessary for the will to be validly executed, witness signatures affixed to an affidavit meeting the requirements of § 32-2-110 shall be considered signatures to the will, provided that:  The signatures are made at the same time as the testator signs the will and are made in accordance with subsection (a); and   The affidavit contains language meeting all the requirements of subsection (a).     If the witnesses signed the affidavit on the same day that the testator signed the will, it shall be presumed that the witnesses and the testator signed at the same time, unless rebutted by clear and convincing evidence. If, pursuant to this subsection (b), witness signatures on the affidavit are treated as signatures on the will, the affidavit shall not also serve as a self-proving affidavit under § 32-2-110. Nothing in this subsection (b) shall affect, eliminate, or relax the requirement in subsection (a) that the testator sign the will.
TN Code § 32-1-105 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-105. Holographic Will

 No witness to a holographic will is necessary, but the signature and all its material provisions must be in the handwriting of the testator and the testator's handwriting must be proved by two (2) witnesses.
TN Code § 32-1-106 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-106. Nuncupative Will

  A nuncupative will may be made only by a person in imminent peril of death, whether from illness or otherwise, and shall be valid only if the testator died as a result of the impending peril, and must be:  Declared to be the testator's will by the testator before two (2) disinterested witnesses;   Reduced to writing by or under the direction of one (1) of the witnesses within thirty (30) days after such declaration; and   Submitted for probate within six (6) months after the death of the testator.     The nuncupative will may dispose of personal property only and to an aggregate value not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), except that in the case of persons in active military, air or naval service in time of war the aggregate amount may be ten thousand dollars ($10,000).   A nuncupative will neither revokes nor changes an existing written will.
TN Code § 32-1-107 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-107. Foreign Execution

 A will executed outside this state in a manner prescribed by §§ 32-1-101 — 32-1-108, inclusive, or a written will executed outside this state in a manner prescribed by the law of the place of its execution or by the law of the testator's domicile at the time of its execution, shall have the same force and effect in this state as if executed in this state in compliance with those sections.
TN Code § 32-1-108 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-108. Application of §§ 32-1-101 — 32-1-108

 Sections 32-1-101 — 32-1-108, inclusive, shall not apply to wills executed in this state on or before February 15, 1941, or to wills offered for ancillary probate in this state that have been admitted to probate in the state or country of the testator's domicile.
TN Code § 32-1-109 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-109. Requisites of Will Executed on or Before February 15, 1941

 No last will or testament executed on or before February 15, 1941, shall be good or sufficient to convey or give an estate in lands, unless written in the testator's lifetime, and signed by the testator, or by some other person in the testator's presence and by the testator's direction, and subscribed in the testator's presence by two (2) witnesses at least, neither of whom is interested in the devise of the lands.   Code 1858, § 2162 (deriv. Acts 1784 (Apr.), ch. 22, § 11); Shan., § 3895; Code 1932, § 8089; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-109.
TN Code § 32-1-110 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-110. Requisites of Holographic Will Executed on or Before February 15, 1941

 A paper writing, written on or before February 15, 1941, appearing to be the will of a deceased person, written by the deceased person, having the deceased person's name subscribed to it, or inserted in some part of it, and found, after the deceased person's death, among the deceased person's valuable papers, or lodged in the hands of another for safekeeping, shall be good and sufficient to give and convey lands, if the handwriting is generally known by the deceased person's acquaintances, and it is proved by at least three (3) credible witnesses that they verily believe the writing, and every part of it, to be in the deceased person's hand.   Code 1858, § 2163 (deriv. Acts 1784 (Oct.), ch. 10, § 5); Shan., § 3896; Code 1932, § 8090; modified; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-110.
TN Code § 32-1-111 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-111. Married Women's Power to Dispose of Property by Will

  Married women, after February 15, 1941, may dispose of their property by will according to §§ 32-1-101 — 32-1-108.   Wills executed on or before February 15, 1941, by married women twenty-one (21) years of age or over, are valid to dispose of their realty or personalty, legal or equitable, in as complete manner as if executed by femes sole.    Code 1858, § 2168 (deriv. Acts 1851-1852, ch. 180, § 4); Acts 1869-1870, ch. 99, §§ 1, 6; Shan., § 3901; mod. Code 1932, § 8098; modified; Acts 1976, ch. 529, § 19; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 32-111.
TN Code § 32-1-113 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 1 - Execution Generally|§ 32-1-113. Mailing or Delivery of Will to Personal Representative or Clerk of Court

  Any person or corporation who has possession of or discovers a written instrument purporting to be the last will and testament of a decedent shall mail or deliver that instrument to the personal representative named in the instrument as soon as the person or corporation has knowledge of the death, and a photographic copy of the instrument shall be mailed or delivered to the clerk of the court having probate jurisdiction in the county of the decedent's residence.    If the personal representative, or the personal representative's address, is not known, is deceased or is not eligible to serve;   If the instrument does not name a personal representative;   If the personal representative declines to serve; or   If it appears that there is no estate that will require administration;  then the person having possession of the original instrument shall mail or deliver it to the clerk.      The receipt by the personal representative or the clerk shall relieve the person of further responsibility as to possession of the instrument.   The clerk of the court shall have no responsibility to perform any acts regarding the probate of the will and shall not accept any claims for filing against the estate unless and until the personal representative or other interested party files proper pleadings to initiate such an action.
TN Code § 32-1-201 (2021)
2021 Tennessee Code|Title 32 - Wills|Chapter 1 - Execution of Wills|Part 2 - Revocation|§ 32-1-201. Actions Effecting a Revocation of Will

 A will or any part thereof is revoked by:   A subsequent will, other than a nuncupative will, that revokes the prior will or part expressly or by inconsistency;   Document of revocation, executed with all the formalities of an attested will or a holographic will, but not a nuncupative will, that revokes the prior will or part expressly;   Being burned, torn, cancelled, obliterated or destroyed, with the intent and for the purpose of revoking it, by the testator or by another person in the testator's presence and by the testator's direction; or   Both the subsequent marriage and the birth of a child of the testator, but divorce or annulment of the subsequent marriage does not revive a prior will.