One page for the three small problems that stop a Tennessee title in its tracks: a vehicle that has not been driven, two spellings of one person's name, and an error made somewhere in the title application paperwork. The Department indexes it as an affidavit for general information; the form itself is headed General Affidavit and gives you four tick boxes and four lines.
Written against RV-F1311001 (Rev 1-21), issued under Tenn. Code Ann. 55-4-101.
It is a sworn statement, not a note. The acknowledgment says fraudulent statements made in this application could result in denial of this request and subject the signatory to criminal and civil penalties.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank RV-F1311001 from the tn.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today.
This is the actual RV-F1311001, rendered from the PDF the Tennessee Department of Revenue publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.
Amber — you write it
Grey — not yours to fill
Numbered — explained below
The one-and-the-same version, which is the one a seller meets most often. Three boxes are greyed because a single affidavit answers a single question - if two of these apply, the Department is being asked two things and wants two statements.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
You fill this in
Block A, who is swearing
Name, phone and address of the affiant - the person making the statement.
Watch out: The affiant has to be the owner. This is one of the few Tennessee vehicle forms the Department has said in writing cannot be completed by a dealership under a power of attorney.
2
You fill this in
Block B, which vehicle
Vehicle identification number, year, make, model and colour.
Watch out: One vehicle per affidavit. The statement is tied to the record it is filed against, and two cars on one sheet is two statements filed nowhere.
3
You fill this in
Tick one box in block C
Non-use, one in the same name, correction, or other and further details.
Watch out: Read the printed sentence beside each one before choosing. They are not headings, they are the statement you are swearing to - the non-use box, for instance, asserts the vehicle has not been operated on Tennessee roads at all.
4
You fill this in
Use the lines
Four ruled lines to set out the facts.
Watch out: Name both versions of the name in full, say which document each appears on, and name the document you are attaching. A clerk is matching your sentence against two pieces of paper.
5
You fill this in
Sign and date it
The affiant certification statement in block D, with a signature and a date.
Watch out: No notary here either - the certification is the affiant's own. Where the Department wants a notarised statement, as it does for a struck-through misspelling on a title, it says so on that occasion.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
A. Affiant information
Name, phone, street address, city, state and ZIP.
B. Vehicle information
Vehicle identification number, year, make, model and colour.
C. Statement of facts
Four boxes. Non-use, whose printed text is that the motor vehicle described in this document has not been operated on the roads or highways of Tennessee. One in the Same Name, that the two different names found on different documents refer to one person. Correction, that an error was made in the title application paperwork, with a request to explain it below. And Other or further details.
The four detail lines
A single block of ruled lines shared by whichever box is ticked.
D. Acknowledgment
The affiant certification statement, a signature and a date.
What gets this one rejected
•No box ticked. The four boxes are the whole architecture of the form and the lines beneath them mean nothing on their own.
•A correction box ticked with no explanation. The printed instruction next to it asks you to explain the error in the spaces provided.
•Using it to correct the title itself. This affidavit explains a discrepancy to the clerk; it does not amend a certificate, and an alteration on the certificate voids it.
•A one-and-the-same claim with no supporting document. A marriage certificate, a court order or a driver licence showing both forms of the name is what makes it checkable.
•Signing it for somebody else. The Department's answer on the one-and-the-same affidavit is that it must be completed by the owner of the vehicle, and that a dealership cannot complete it on the owner's behalf even with a power of attorney.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It is the form for a name that has changed. Marriage, divorce, a middle initial that appears on the licence and not on the title - all of them land in the One in the Same Name box rather than in a correction to the certificate.
•Non-use is about registration, not about the sale. The non-use box exists so an owner can account for a period when the vehicle was off the road. It does not affect the assignment or the transfer.
Every line here was read off RV-F1311001 (Rev 1-21) itself — the PDF is here — and off the Tennessee Department of Revenue pages.
This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ,
theirs governs.
