§ 39-14-111 — Parentage fraud

(a) A person commits parentage fraud who: (1) Seeks to legally establish another individual as the biological parent of a child in the person's custody with intent to deprive the individual of property or to prevent the child's actual biological parent from exercising parental rights to the child and the person knows or reasonably should know that the individual is not the child's biological parent; or (2) Seeks to be legally established as a child's parent based on the person's status as a biological parent of the child and the person knows or reasonably should know that the person is not the child's biological parent. (b) Parentage fraud is a Class B misdemeanor. (c) Subsection (a) does not apply when: (1) The child involved was conceived as a result of an act that would be aggravated rape, as defined in § 39-13-502 ; rape, as defined in § 39-13-503 ; rape of a child, as defined in § 39-13-522 ; especially aggravated rape, as defined in § 39-13-534 ; or especially aggravated rape of a child, as defined in § 39-13-535 ; (2) The child involved has been or is in the process of being adopted; or (3) The victim of the offense was the defendant's spouse at the time of the offense.

Legislative History

Added by 2023 Tenn. Acts, ch. 189, s 1, eff. 7/1/2023.