Duties as to Guardians

1. Law
2. Tennessee Code
3. Clerks of Courts
4. County Clerks
5. Duties as to Guardians

1. The county clerk has the duty to enter in particular books, to be provided and kept for that purpose only, every guardian's first account of the guardian's ward's estate, received into the guardian's hands and possession, and each annual account of profits and disbursements afterwards exhibited by such guardian.
2. Subsection (a) shall only apply in counties having a population, according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, of:

   not less than  not more than

   12,800 12,900

   27,100 27,200

   43,100 43,200

   62,300 62,400

   182,000 182,100

3. In counties having a population of not less than thirty-nine thousand fifty (39,050) nor more than thirty-nine thousand one hundred fifty (39,150), according to the 2000 federal census or any subsequent federal census, the circuit court clerk, who also serves as the general sessions court clerk, shall serve as the clerk of the court with probate jurisdiction in any such counties.

Code 1858, § 4070 (deriv. Acts 1762, ch. 5, § 9); Shan., § 5885; Code 1932, § 10085; impl. am. Acts 1978, ch. 934, §§ 22, 36; T.C.A. (orig. ed.), § 18-605; Acts 2003, ch. 310, §§ 3, 6-10; 2005, ch. 24, §§ 1, 2.

Compiler's Notes. For table of U.S. decennial populations of Tennessee counties, see Volume 13 and its supplement.

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