Domestic Relations – Parent & Child – Support – Voluntary Unemployment – No Bad Faith

Even though the evidence showed that the mother, a registered nurse, was voluntarily unemployed, there was no showing that her decision to stay at home with her three children under the age of three (two of whom were born five weeks premature) was made in bad faith.

We affirm the trial court’s order requiring the defendant-father, but not the mother, to pay child support.

Yancey County ex rel. Buchanan v. Jones (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-116-18, 10 pp.) (Valerie Zachary, J.) Appealed from Yancey County District Court (Larry Leake, J.) Donny Laws for plaintiff; Jenna Blackwell for defendant. N.C. App. Unpub.