Tennessee Code Annotated
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-14-111 (2024)
Parentage fraud
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- (a) A person commits parentage fraud who:
- (1) Seeks to legally establish another individual as the biological parent of a child in the person's custody with intent to deprive the individual of property or to prevent the child's actual biological parent from exercising parental rights to the child and the person knows or reasonably should know that the individual is not the child's biological parent; or
- (2) Seeks to be legally established as a child's parent based on the person's status as a biological parent of the child and the person knows or reasonably should know that the person is not the child's biological parent.
- (b) Parentage fraud is a Class B misdemeanor.
- (c) Subsection (a) does not apply when:
- (1) The child involved was conceived as a result of an act that would be aggravated rape, as defined in § 39-13-502; rape, as defined in § 39-13-503; rape of a child, as defined in § 39-13-522; especially aggravated rape, as defined in § 39-13-534; or especially aggravated rape of a child, as defined in § 39-13-535;
- (2) The child involved has been or is in the process of being adopted; or
- (3) The victim of the offense was the defendant's spouse at the time of the offense.
Added by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 189, s 1, eff. 7/1/2023.
Notes of Decisions
Cited in 4
cases, 2017–2019 · leading case: Richard Darrell Trigg v. Joseph Church, No. E2017-01834-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. July 2, 2018).
Richard Darrell Trigg v. Joseph Church, No. E2017-01834-COA-R3-CV (Tenn. Ct. App. July 2, 2018). “” Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-14-111 (h) (2015). Exploitation was defined as: “the improper use by a caretaker of funds that have been paid to an adult or to the caretaker for the use or care of the adult.”
State of Tennessee v. Rebecca Michelle Spears, Alias, No. E2017-01836-CCA-R9-CD (Tenn. Crim. App. July 23, 2018). “” T.C.A. § 39-14-111. This proof would necessitate an examination of whether Defendant used funds belonging to the victim and was a caretaker for the victim.”
State of Tennessee v. Ricky Jan Stevison, No. E2018-01832-CCA-R3-CD (Tenn. Crim. App. Sept. 26, 2019). “OPINION Defendant was indicted in March of 2017 for financial exploitation of the elderly pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated section 39-14-111 and theft of property valued at more than $10,000 but less than $60,000 pursuant to Tennessee Code Annotated section 39-14-103.”
Richard Darrell Trigg v. Mary Katherine Jones, 699 F. App'x 268 (4th Cir. 2017). “See Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-14-111 (2015) (repealed 2017).”
Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-14-111(3): 1 case
State of Tennessee v. Rebecca Michelle Spears, Alias, No. E2017-01836-CCA-R9-CD (Tenn. Crim. App. July 23, 2018). “” T.C.A. § 39-14-111. This proof would necessitate an examination of whether Defendant used funds belonging to the victim and was a caretaker for the victim.”
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