Structured Settlement Guide For Tennessee

Below is local Tennessee information related to courts, and structured settlement topics. You may have to visit or phone call a local Tennessee courthouse when working with your structured settlement.

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Tennessee City Court Pages

Click to go to Site: Tennessee Main Court Pages
Click to go to Site: Tennessee Eastern District Courts
Click to go to Site: County Clerk of Courts in TN

The following Tennessee cities have court information at above links:

• Memphis
• Nashville-Davidson
• Knoxville
• Chattanooga
• Clarksville
• Murfreesboro
• Jackson
• Johnson City
• Kingsport
• Franklin
• Hendersonville
• Bartlett
• Germantown
• Cleveland
• Columbia
  

Structured Settlement Tennessee State Laws

SECTION 4. No direct or indirect transfer of structured settlement payment rights shall be effective and no structured settlement obligor or annuity issuer shall be required to make any payment directly or indirectly to any transferee of structured settlement payment rights unless Chapter No. 758] PUBLIC ACTS, 2000 3 the transfer has been authorized in advance in a final order of a court of competent jurisdiction or a responsible administrative authority, and complies with all of the following: (1) The transfer complies with the requirement of this part and will not contravene other applicable law; (2) Not less than ten (10) days prior to the date on which the payee executes the transfer agreement, the transferee has provided to the payee a disclosure statement in bold type, no smaller than fourteen (14) points, setting forth: (A) the amounts and due dates of the structured settlement payments to be transferred; (B) the aggregate amount of such payments; (C) the discounted present value of such payments, together with the discount rate used in determining such discounted present value; (D) the gross amount payable to the payee in exchange for such payments; (E) an itemized listing of all brokers' commissions, service charges, application fees, processing fees, closing costs, filing fees, administrative fees, notary fees and other commissions, fees, costs, expenses and charges, and a good faith estimate of all legal fees and court costs payable by the payee or deductible from the gross amount otherwise payable to the payee; (F) the net amount payable to the payee after deduction of all commissions, fees, costs, expenses and charges described in subdivision (5) of this subsection; (G) the amount of any penalty and the aggregate amount of any liquidated damages (inclusive of penalties) payable by the payee in the event of any breach of the transfer agreement by the payee. (3) The payee has established that the transfer is fair and reasonable and in the best interest of the payee. (4) The payee has been advised by the transferee, in writing, to seek independent professional advice regarding the financial, legal and tax implications of the transfer. (5) The transferee has given written notice of the transferee's name, address and taxpayer identification number to the annuity issuer and the structured settlement obligor and has filed a copy of such notice with the court or responsible administrative authority. SECTION 5. (a) The circuit court shall have non-exclusive jurisdiction over any application for authorization under Section 4 of this act of a transfer of structured settlement payment rights...

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