HB2961 - Tennessee: Adoption

Companion Bill SB3387. Adoption - Requires notice be given to a parent before the parent is considered to have willfully failed to support or visit a child for purposes of termination of parental rights; requires certain additional information be in a petition to terminate parental rights. - Amends TCA Title 36, Chapter 1. Fiscal Summary for *HB2961 / SB3387Increase State Expenditures - $67,800 Other Fiscal Impact - Increase Federal Expenditures - $42,300 Bill Summary for *HB2961 / SB3387 Under present law, abandonment is grounds for terminating a person's parental or guardian rights to a child in order to make that child available for adoption. Present law considers the following to be abandonment: for a period of four consecutive months immediately preceding the filing of a proceeding or pleading to terminate the parental rights of the parent [...]

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