Tenn. Code Ann. § 16-16-114 (2026)

• (a) The court has also original jurisdiction over bastardy and bastards, and general supervision of bastards.

• (b) Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a population, according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, of:

  not less than	not more than
  12,800	12,900
  27,100	27,200
  43,100	43,200
  62,300	62,400
  182,000	182,100

• (c) In counties having a population of not less than thirty-nine thousand fifty (39,050) nor more than thirty-nine thousand one hundred fifty (39,150), according to the 2000 federal census of population or any subsequent federal census, the circuit court clerk, who also serves as the general sessions court clerk, shall serve as the clerk of the court with probate jurisdiction in any such counties.

Code 1858, § 4208 (deriv. Acts 1741, ch. 14, § 10); Shan., § 6040; Code 1932, § 10237; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 16-716; Acts 2003, ch. 310, §§ 1, 6-10; 2005, ch. 24, §§ 1, 2.