Uncontested Divorce in Tennessee

Divorce is a very clumsy and stress-raising issue. In an uncontested divorce also, there are a very large number of forms that need to be filed during the divorce process. The only soothing point about this sort of divorce is that the divorcing partners agree with each other about the major issues of the divorce like visitation, child support, child custody, spousal support, property distribution etc. This is very beneficial from the point of view of future of the divorcing partners as well as their children.

Grounds for Uncontested Divorce in Tennessee

Fault grounds

• Abandonment, neglect and banning the spouse from the house.
• Indignities due to which the life of the spouse has been made intolerable.
• Improper marital conduct and inhuman and cruel treatment.
• Refusal to relocate to a state with the partner and intentionally remaining absent from a new residence for 2 years.
• Conviction of an infamous crime.
• Endangering the life of the spouse.
• Bigamy.
• Willful desertion for a year.
• Wife becoming pregnant due to a person other than the husband at the time of marriage and the husband knowing nothing about this fact.
• Drug addiction and / or alcoholism.
• Conviction of a felony and imprisonment.
• Adultery.
• Impotence.

No-fault grounds

• Residing apart and separate in the absence of cohabitation for 2 years in the absence of minor children from the marriage.
• Irreconcilable differences. This has the following aspects.
  • The responding party should not deny this.
  • The divorcing partners should submit a Marital Dissolution Agreement that is properly signed.
  • Irreconcilable differences must be mixed with a general fault ground.

Forms related to Uncontested Divorce in Tennessee

If Form 400, a Marital Dissolution Agreement, is signed by the Respondent, then, it is expected that the Petitioner must file some or all of the below mentioned forms.

• Form 100, A Complaint for Divorce: This form is used for identification of the parties, the nature of the action and the relief sought.
• Form 115, An Amendment: This form is filed in order to amend the Complaint.
• Form 10, A Case Cover Sheet: This document furnishes whatever information is demanded by the Tennessee Court.
• Parenting Class Certificate: This is evidence that both the divorcing parents have remained present at the compulsory parenting class.
• Form 145, A Permanent Parenting Plan: If the marriage of the divorcing partners has resulted in dependent children, then this form is used.
• Form 30, An Affidavit of Indigency: If the Petitioner fails to afford the filing fees, then, this document can be used.
• Form PH1682, Divorce Certificate: The intention of this document is record keeping. It can be procured from the court clerk’s office or the Department of Health.
• Form 415, Title IV-D: In case, the state of Tennessee is forwarding some assistance to the divorcing parent, then, this form is used.
• Form 411, Final Decree: After the Judge signs this document, the marriage is terminated.
• Form 340, Wage Assignment Order: Whenever the Parenting Plan arranges for the distribution of child support payments or for third-party collection, this document is completed.

Divorce Papers