Tennessee Code 36-5-3101 – Purpose and construction of part
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 36-5-3101
- 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.
- Law: includes decisional and statutory law and rules and regulations having the force of law. See Tennessee Code 36-5-2101
- Obligor: means an individual against whom a support order has been entered. See Tennessee Code 36-5-3102
The purpose of this part is to provide a procedure for the enforcement of support obligations arising under the law against an obligor without a transfer of jurisdiction to modify the order. This part shall be liberally construed to effectuate its purposes.