Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-5-2102 (2026)
State tribunal and support enforcement agency
✓ current as of May 2026
- (a) The chancery, circuit, juvenile, and any courts exercising domestic relations jurisdiction under any enactment of the general assembly, and the department of human services when, pursuant to a state or federal law, the department is acting in its capacity as the Title IV-D child support enforcement agency of the state to carry out administrative support establishment or support enforcement actions or when adjudicating administrative appeals involving the Title IV-D child support program, are the tribunals of this state.
- (b) The department of human services is the support enforcement agency of this state.
Acts 2010, ch. 901, § 1.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 2
cases (2 in the last 5 years), 2021–2024 · leading case: State, ex rel., Tynesha April Dior Moody v. Damond Julian Roker (Tenn. Ct. App. 2021).
State, ex rel., Tynesha April Dior Moody v. Damond Julian Roker (Tenn. Ct. App. 2021). “are the tribunals of this state,” Tenn. Code Ann. § 36-5-2102 (a), and a petitioner can file “directly in a tribunal of another state .”
State ex rel. Laronda Johnson v. Jacob C. Morton (Tenn. Ct. App. 2024). “§ 36-5-2102 (2021). 2 engaging in ex parte communications with the assistant district attorney.”
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