Tennessee Code Title 36. Domestic Relations § 36-1-136

(a)(1) A notification required to be made as part of a search or a contact or an identifying request pursuant to this part for an adopted person or a person for whom records are maintained as described in § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A), shall be made with such persons who are eighteen (18) years of age or older or who are emancipated, except as otherwise provided by § 36-1-135, or with the legal representative of such persons.

(2) A notification for search or contact requests involving the biological or legal relative, who is under eighteen (18) years of age, of the adopted person or person for whom records are maintained as described in § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A), shall be with the parents or legal representative of the biological or legal relative.

(3) A notification involving other persons who are subject to contact for search requests or contact requests under this part shall be made with those persons who are eighteen (18) years of age or older or with the known legal representative of any such persons.

(1) By the adopted person or a person for whom records are maintained as described in § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A) and in subdivision (a)(1), who is eighteen (18) years of age or older or is emancipated, or such person's legal representative, except as otherwise provided by § 36-1-135;

(2) By the parents or the legal representative of the biological or legal relative in subdivision (a)(2), who is under eighteen (18) years of age, of the adopted person or person for whom records are maintained under § 36-1-127(c)(1)(A);  or

(3) By those other persons in subdivision (a)(3) who are eighteen (18) years of age or older or by the known legal representative of any such persons.