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Dewitt v. Dewitt (Lawyers Weekly No. 14-16-0169, 12 pp.) (Robert N. Hunter Jr., J.) Appealed from Transylvania County District Court (Mack Brittain, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Since the evidence […]
Domestic Relations – Parent & Child – Custody & Support – Modifications – Insufficient Findings – Child’s Welfare
Bledsoe v. Bledsoe Disregarding those findings of fact which merely recite evidence, the trial court’s remaining findings (that the plaintiff-father attempted to enforce the terms of a 2009 custody order, that the father takes his son to his after-school practices, that the son is old enough to pursue appropriate activities of his own choosing, and that the father’s motives for enfor[...]
Domestic Relations – Parent & Child – Intervening Grandmother – Custody Order — Constitutional
Sides v. Ikner The plaintiff-father fully complied with the custody order which gave him joint legal and secondary physical custody of his son, “Luke.” When he learned that the defendant-mother had joined the Air Force -- not the Air Force Reserves as she had told him -- and was moving to Germany, the father objected to allowing Luke to continue to live with the intervenor-grandmother[...]
Civil Practice – Appeals – Service – Domestic Relations — Custody Order – Filing – Timeliness
Manone v. Coffee When a party receives actual notice of the entry and content of a judgment, as was done in this case by obtaining the custody order directly from the courthouse, the service requirements of N.C. R. App. P. 3(c) are not applicable.
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