North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

  Since the plaintiff-husband was awarded certain business assets as his separate property in the equitable distribution portion of the parties’ consent order, when the husband sold the assets and began receiving installment payments for them, this did not constitute ...

  Although the juvenile court’s order in a neglect proceeding was insufficient to transfer jurisdiction to a pending child custody action, the order effectively terminated jurisdiction under G.S. § 7B-201. Upon the termination of jurisdiction in the neglect proceeding, the ...

  After a permanency planning hearing, the trial court awarded guardianship of the respondent-father’s children to a couple who are related to the children’s mother. However, at the hearing, the only evidence the trial court received were reports offered by ...

Petitioner’s employment was terminated by the respondent-university after she returned from a medical leave, but she was then reinstated pursuant to a final university decision. Petitioner was not entitled to file a contested case to seek review of the implementation ...

  Even though petitioner denied that she used the racial epithet, “n—–,” she admitted to using the variant “nigra.” We fail to see how using a variant of an epithet that is commonly understood to be a complete anathema is ...

Where the trial court carefully weighed the competing goals of (1) preserving the ties between two children and their biological relatives and (2) achieving permanence for the children as offered by their prospective adoptive family, we are satisfied that the ...

  Judge Earwood presided over the hearing on a petition to terminate the respondent-mother’s parental rights, and Judge Earwood asked counsel to draft an order for her signature. However, Judge Leslie inadvertently signed the order. Even though respondent appealed the ...

Although a woman’s co-worker was found liable for sexually assaulting her during her shifts at Radford Arsenal, the evidence was insufficient to hold their employer liable for the co-worker’s conduct. Background Carla A. Clehm is an employee of defendant BAE ...

When teenagers said they’d rather see their mother go to jail than participate in visitation with their father, the respondent-judge had the mother handcuffed and taken into custody without a hearing. Although the judge used this technique to try to ...

We improvidently granted certiorari as to the Court of Appeals’ decision (Although petitioners’ Agriculture Farm Identification Number is “sufficient evidence [their] property is being used for bona fide farm purposes,” G.S. § 153A-340(b)(2), it is not conclusive evidence. In upholding a notice of ...