Tennessee Transfer-on-Death Deed

Tennessee enacted its own version of the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act, creating a transfer-on-death deed framework for real estate. The Act specifically labels this deed nontestamentary — meaning it transfers title directly rather than operating through a will.

Having this statute puts Tennessee in a different category from states that rely only on a retained life estate or a revocable trust for the same kind of probate planning. But nontestamentary status doesn't turn the deed into a settled Medicaid-planning solution — a beneficiary who receives property this way still takes it subject to whatever claims and interests existed at the owner's death.