Evans v. Steelman

OPINION

ANDERSON, Chief Justice.

We granted the applications for permission to appeal and consolidated these two cases to decide whether, pursuant to Tenn.Code Ann. § 36-2-202 (1996 Repl.) (repealed 1997), a child is “born out of wedlock” when the child’s mother is married, but not to the biological father, at the time of the child’s birth. If not “born out of wedlock,” the biological father has no standing to legitimate the child.

At this juncture, we recognize that after the granting of the applications in these cases, the Legislature repealed the statute under interpretation. Moreover, at the…