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TN Lit Abuse

April 2024

We added a Litigation Abuse page in Tennessee that includes the following six new questions based on the law that allows someone dealing with an abusive civil action to request that pre-filing restrictions be put on the plaintiff:

We revised the question “Is there anything I can do if my abusive partner continually files court proceedings against me?” on our Restraining Orders, Custody, and Divorce pages to direct users to this new section.

We also added five related statutes to our Selected Tennessee Statutes page.

Grant: 

State: 

Tennessee

Whats New: 

Added Statute(s)
Created New Question(s)
Updated Question(s)
6
2

Statute Added Count: 

5
1

Summary: 

We added a Litigation Abuse page in Tennessee that includes six new questions. We revised the question “Is there anything I can do if my abusive partner continually files court proceedings against me?” on our Restraining Orders, Custody, and Divorce pages to direct users to this new section.

We also added five related statutes to our Selected Tennessee Statutes page.