Part Definitions

  1. Law
  2. Tennessee Code
  3. Domestic Relations
  4. Alimony and Child Support
  5. Enforcement Through License Denial, Revocation and Restriction
  6. Part Definitions

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As used in this part, unless the context otherwise requires:

  1. “Arrears” means any child support or spousal support associated with a child support order owed under a court or administrative order that is delinquent pursuant to § 36-5-501(b)(1), or any interest owed on those arrears;
  2. “Commissioner” means the commissioner of human services;
  3. “Department” means the department of human services;
  4. “License” means a license, certification, registration, permit, approval or other similar document issued to an individual evidencing admission to or granting authority to engage in a profession, trade, occupation, business, or industry, to hunt or fish, or to operate any motor vehicle or other conveyance, but does not include a license to practice law unless the supreme court establishes guidelines pursuant to § 36-5-713 making this part applicable to such license;
  5. “Licensee” means any individual holding a license, certification, registration, permit, approval, or other similar document evidencing admission to, or granting authority to engage in a profession, trade, occupation, business, or industry, to hunt or fish, or to operate any motor vehicle or other conveyance, but “licensee” does not include an attorney only with respect to the attorney's license to practice law unless the supreme court establishes guidelines pursuant to § 36-5-713 making this part applicable to such license;
  6. “Licensing authority” means the board, commission, or agency, including the department of safety, that has been established by statute or state regulation to oversee the issuance and regulation of any license. Excluded from this definition is the supreme court, unless the supreme court acts in accordance with § 36-5-713, and any licensing authority established solely by the action and authority of a county or municipal government;
  7. “Not in compliance with an order of support” means that the obligor is five hundred dollars ($500) or more in arrears and the arrears are ninety (90) days or more past due;
  8. “Obligee” means any individual to whom a duty of support is owed or any state or political subdivision to whom such duty has been assigned or that is collecting support on behalf of an obligee;
  9. “Obligor” means any individual owing a duty of support;
  10. “Order of support” means any judgment or order for the support of dependent children issued by any court of this state or another state, including an order in a final decree of divorce, or any order issued in accordance with an administrative procedure established by state law in this or another state that affords substantial due process and is subject to judicial review; and
  11. “Restricted license” means a license that allows a person to operate a motor vehicle for the limited purposes of going to and from and working at the person's regular place of employment and going to and from the person's school and does not include a commercial driver license of any kind.


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