Tennessee Adoption Court Cases

Tennessee Court Case: Coker v. Celebreeze
'The facts in this case are not disputed. The wage earner filed an application for child's insurance benefits on behalf of Ronald Lewis Leach, an alleged adopted child, who was born on February 4, 1940. Previously, Mr. Coker had been awarded old-age insurance benefits in the amount of $ 113 a month effective November 1960. It was determined that the child was under a disability which began before attainment...


Tennessee Court Case: Smelser v. Southern Railway
On November 16, 1954, Final Judgment was entered whereby the proceeds of settlement between the parties were distributed to the widow and three children of the deceased and said widow. On April 28, 1955, a motion was filed on behalf of Stanley Monroe Meadors, a minor son of deceased by a former marriage. The first wife of deceased was Ann Howard Smelser, who obtained from him a divorce and custody of their child, then Stanley Monroe Smelser. Ann Howard Smelser afterwards married Meadors...


Tennessee Court Case: In re Doe v. Sundquist
Pending before this Court is Plaintiffs' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction barring Defendants from unsealing and disclosing to any third persons confidential records contained in Plaintiffs' adoption files, which the State of Tennessee has in its custody. Doc. No. 79. Also pending before the Court is Plaintiffs' Motion to Consolidate the Preliminary Injunction Hearing with a Hearing on the Merits...


Tennessee Court Case: In re Matthews
The sole question is whether the Chancery Court is deprived of jurisdiction to entertain the petition for adoption because of the fact that the Juvenile Court has adjudged the child a dependent and committed its custody and care to the Tennessee Department of Public Welfare pending such further orders that the Juvenile Court might elect to make with reference to its welfare...


Tennessee Court Case: In re Mullins
The mother of these children, who were born in Fairview Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, on February 5, 1964, joined in this petition. The petition makes all necessary prayers for the preliminary investigation with respect to the fitness of the proposed adoptive parents as is required by Section 16, Chapter 202 of the Public Acts of 1951, through the Welfare Department...


Tennessee Court Case: Nale v. Robertson
Prior to the birth of the child, Robertson told the expectant mother and her sister that he wanted custody of the baby if the mother should choose not to retain custody. At that time, the mother, who was "pretty sure" Robertson was the father, said she would never give the child up for adoption. Robertson was not requested to and did not provide any support for the expectant mother during the pregnancy...


Tennessee Court Case: In re Female Child
The child was born in May 1987. The mother was awarded custody of the child and her two brothers when she was granted a divorce from their father. Because of the child's medical problems, the mother was not able to place her in a day care facility with her other two children. Believing that she could not take proper care of the child, the mother asked the adoptive couple, who had cared for other children for short periods of time, to assume temporarily the responsibility of caring for the child, who then was eight and one-half months old...


Tennessee Court Case: Simmons v. Simmons
This is a grandparents' visitation case. It presents a dispute between the natural mother and adoptive father of a child presently five years old and the parents of the child's natural father. The Court of Appeals, finding that there had been no change in circumstances, refused to terminate the court authorized visitation privileges of the parents of the natural father, upon the application of the mother and adoptive father. Because the principles of parental rights discussed in Hawk...


Tennessee Court Case: Putnam v. McCloud
Debra McCloud was born on December 22, 1988. Two months later, in February 1989, she became a ward of the state, subject to the management of its Department of Human Services (DHS) and the pronouncements of its courts. Since the State became her parents patriae, Debra has been the victim of inconsistent counsel provided by State-employed experts, inconsistent positions by DHS with regard to her custody...


Tennessee Court Case: Doe v. Sundquist
The trial court dismissed the plaintiffs' action for injunctive and declaratory relief, holding that the legislation did not impair the plaintiffs' vested rights or their rights to privacy under the Tennessee Constitution. The Court of Appeals reversed the trial court's judgment, concluding that the retrospective application of the legislation impaired the vested rights of birth parents who surrendered children under former law with an expectation that records of the adoption would not be released...


Tennessee Court Case: Children's Homes v. Swanson
Harry and Brigitte Swanson n1 were married in May 1989. Their daughter, Brittany Swanson, was born on June 10, 1990. Subsequently, the family lived with Mrs. Swanson's father, Jim Ellingburg, in Drummonds, Tennessee, a town located in Tipton County. Mr. and Mrs. Swanson separated in the summer of 1991, and Mr. Swanson went to Memphis to work for Delta Airlines...


Tennessee Court Case: Adoption of Female Child
Mr. Rose argued on appeal that § 36-1-113(g)(6) violates the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. The Court of Appeals noted that the procedural requirements for challenging the constitutionality of a statute had not been satisfied in this case. In particular, the Attorney General of Tennessee had not been provided with notice of the challenge as required by Tenn...

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