TENNESSEE Part 31

No one factor controls, and each factor must be weighed and considered in relation to the others. However, any of the above factors may be outweighed by proof of either parent's abandonment of the child, substantial refusal to perform parenting responsibilities, physical or sexual abuse of a child or parent, emotional or physical impairment interfering with parenting responsibilities, drug, alcohol, or other substance abuse, abusive use of conflict which endangers the child's psychological development, withholding access to the child from the other parent without good cause, criminal conviction, or any other factors adverse to a child. A parent who commits this type of serious misconduct is quite unlikely to be named the primary residential parent.