COURT OF APPEALS OPINIONS

Dotson vs. TDOC
01A01-9811-CV-00596

Baker vs. Mundaca Investment Corp.
01A01-9809-CH-00498
Trial Court Judge: Carol L. Mccoy

Duvall vs. Mobley
01A01-9810-CV-00530
Trial Court Judge: Patricia J. Cottrell

In re: The Estate of Carlton Agib Blessing
01A01-9810-PB-00550

Montz vs. Montz
01A01-9812-CV-00635
Trial Court Judge: Marietta M. Shipley

West American Ins. vs. Patricia Perkins
02A01-9712-CV-00326
Trial Court Judge: James E. Swearengen

Jessica Weil vs. John Gaia, etc.
02A01-9804-CV-00098
Trial Court Judge: Kay S. Robilio

02A01-9805-CV-00136
02A01-9805-CV-00136
Trial Court Judge: Jon Kerry Blackwood

Anderson vs. Anderson
03A01-9810-CV-00366

Estate of Francis Logwood
03A01-9902-PB-00042

Howard vs. Howard
03A01-9811-CV-00374

Killion vs. Killion
03A01-9807-CH-00229

Grissim vs. Powell Const.
03A01-9807-CV-00222

Kinsler vs. State
03A01-9810-BC-00362
Trial Court Judge: Inman

Nationsbank, N.A. vs. FormPak, Inc. & Ron Campbell
03A01-9808-CH-00279

Nationsbank, N.A. vs. FormPak, Inc. & Ron Campbell
03A01-9808-CH-00279

Eddie Dorris, et al vs. Jeffery Crisp
M2000-02170-COA-R3-CV
Authoring Judge: Judge William B. Cain
Trial Court Judge: Don Ash
Over four months after signing a surrender of her parental rights and consent for her minor child to be adopted, Appellee filed a Petition to Set Aside Surrender on the basis of a procedural defect. The Chancellor held that Appellee had abandoned the child, that the surrender executed by Appellee on June 24, 1999 should be set aside because there was no home study performed prior to the surrender, and dismissed the petitions for adoption. The Chancellor ordered the child returned to the custody of Appellee, which order was stayed by this Court September 19, 2000. The adoptive parents appeal raising the following issues for consideration: (1) Whether the mother has standing to attack the surrender on the basis of a lack of a home study, (2) whether the surrender is valid, and (3) whether the trial court was limited to the criteria set forth in Tennessee Code Annotated section 36-1-113(h) in determining whether termination of parental rights was in the child's best interests. We reverse and find the surrender valid.

Cobb vs. Beier
03A01-9812-CV-00399

Gillman vs. Loudon City Commission
03A01-9706-CH-00239

Englewood Citizens vs. Town of Englewood
03A01-9803-CH-00098

Bowlin vs. Bowlin
03A01-9807-CV-00243

Con Pac South vs. Burnett
03A01-9811-CV-00389

Poindexter vs. Strang
03A01-9810-CH-00323

Parr vs. Tower Management
01A01-9811-CV-00573
Trial Court Judge: Robert E. Corlew, III

Ciangi vs. Ciangi
01A01-9805-CV-00236
Trial Court Judge: Muriel Robinson