Roseman v. Roseman

OPINION

BIRCH, Justice.

This case presents an issue heretofore not decided in Tennessee, and it concerns the interpretation of Tenn.Code Ann. § 36-5-601 et seq.1 regarding an income withholding order. We accepted the case in order to determine whether the Juvenile Court of Memphis and Shelby County had subject-matter jurisdiction to modify its income withholding order without a concomitant modification of the underlying order by the foreign court from which it emanated.

We find that the Court of Appeals erred in its interpretation of the statute. For the reasons discussed below, we hold that an…