(a) If no request for contest of the request for transfer is filed within fifteen (15) days pursuant to § 36-5-3004(6), or if the contest of the transfer is denied by the transferor court, the clerk of the transferor court shall, within fifteen (15) days thereafter:

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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 36-5-3005

  • Child: means an individual, whether over or under the age of majority, who is or is alleged to be owed a duty of support by the individual's parent or who is or is alleged to be the beneficiary of a support order directed to the parent. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
  • Clerk: means the clerk of the transferor or transferee court, or the clerk of any court who has been designated by either of those courts to collect support payments for such court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
  • Court: means , except as provided in §. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
  • Department: means the department of human services or its contractor or designee. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
  • Docket: A log containing brief entries of court proceedings.
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
  • Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Record: means information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
  • Request: means a statement of a requesting party seeking transfer of a custody or child support case to the court of another county. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
  • Transfer: means the process by which the transferor court, upon request, moves the case to a court where the child resides thereby conferring jurisdiction on the transferee court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
  • Transferee court: means the court that assumes jurisdiction upon a transfer of a case. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
  • Transferor court: means the court from which a case is transferred to another court. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3002
(1) Remove from the court file the original pleadings, orders and any other filed documents, or make certified copies of such documents;
(2) Prepare a certified, complete child support payment record, unless the case is being enforced by the department of human services pursuant to Title IV-D of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. § 651 et seq.), in which situation the department’s child support computer system, if operative for the transferor and transferee court at the time of the transfer, shall be used as the child support payment record and the clerk shall not be required to prepare the certified child support payment record;
(3)

(A) Mail the originals, or certified copies of the originals, of all documents and, if necessary, the certified child support payment record, to the clerk of the court of the transferee court. The computer record, if operative, shall be used as the official record of the child support obligation;
(B) Mail the notice supplied pursuant to § 36-5-3004(8) to the non-requesting party. The department shall mail the notice in Title IV-D child support cases.
(b) The clerk of the transferor court shall not be required to maintain the copies of the original pleadings or other original documents in the record, but may do so if certified copies are sent.
(c) Upon receipt of the transferred documents and assignment of a docket number by the transferee court, the jurisdiction of the transferor court is terminated.