Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-6-201

• Child abuse prevention services: means those services designed to prevent the occurrence of child abuse and neglect. See Tennessee Code 71-6-202
• Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
• Family violence: means causing or attempting to cause bodily injury to a family or household member or placing a family or household member in fear of imminent physical harm by threat of force, regardless of age or mental functioning. See Tennessee Code 71-6-202
• 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.
• Shelter: means a place where family violence victims and their children can seek temporary refuge twenty-four (24) hours a day and seven (7) days a week, including a program that develops and manages a system under which private homes or commercial lodgings are used as refuge for family violence victims and their children. See Tennessee Code 71-6-202
• Shelter services: means counseling for family violence victims, counseling for perpetrators, advocacy for family violence victims, referral of family violence victims to other community resources, community education regarding prevention of family violence and rehabilitation of perpetrators. See Tennessee Code 71-6-202
• Statute: A law passed by a legislature.