37-1-122 - Attachment where summons ineffectual.
37-1-122. Attachment where summons ineffectual.
In case the summons cannot be served or the party served fails to obey the same, and in any case where it is made to appear to the court that such summons will be ineffectual, an attachment may issue, on the order of the court, against the:
(1) Parent or guardian;
(2) Person having custody of the child;
(3) Person with whom the child may be; or
(4) Child.
[Acts 1970, ch. 600, § 22; T.C.A., § 37-222.]