Tennessee Code 71-3-609 – Petition to take child from home
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 71-3-609
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- 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.
- Person: includes a corporation, firm, company or association. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
At any time after the assumption of control by any of such homes, if the parent or other person, in whom the legal custody of such child would otherwise be, believes such parent or other person entitled to the custody of the child, such person may file a petition in the chancery court of the county in which the home is situated, and set out the facts upon which action is sought, and notice thereof shall be given to such institution, and proof may be taken and the application decided as the chancellor, in the chancellor’s sound judgment, may determine, both as to the merits and the adjudication of costs. For this purpose jurisdiction is conferred upon the chancery courts, with the right of appeal.