Tennessee § 52-3-114 Mental health professionals - Compulsion to testify

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§ 52-3-114 — Mental health professionals - Compulsion to testify

Tennessee § 52-3-114

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Tenn. Code Ann. § 52-3-114 (2026).

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Notwithstanding any evidentiary privilege, including pursuant to §§ 24-1-207 , 63-11-213 , 63-22-114 , and 63-23-109 , a qualified mental health professional may be compelled to testify:

(1)In judicial proceedings under this title to commit a person with an intellectual disability to treatment, if the qualified mental health professional decides that the person supported is in need of compulsory care and treatment;

(2)In proceedings for which the qualified mental health professional was ordered by the court to examine or train the person supported, if the person supported was advised that communications to the qualified mental health professional would not be privileged; and (3) In judicial, conservatorship, and veterans' guardianship proceedings under title 34.

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Notwithstanding any evidentiary privilege, including pursuant to §§ 24-1-207 , 63-11-213 , 63-22-114 , and 63-23-109 , a qualified mental health professional may be compelled to testify: (1) In judicial proceedings under this title to commit a person with an intellectual disability to treatment, if the qualified mental health professional decides that the person supported is in need of compulsory care and treatment; (2) In proceedings for which the qualified mental health professional was ordered by the court to examine or train the person supported, if the person supported was advised that communications to the qualified mental health professional would not be privileged; and (3) In judicial, conservatorship, and veterans' guardianship proceedings under title 34.