North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

    Nine years after plaintiff K2 Asia Ventures filed the complaint in this action and three years after defendant asserted that plaintiff was not the real party in interest, plaintiff sought to substitute its actual corporate name, K2 Asia ...

  Upon the plaintiff-father’s Rule 60(b) motion to set aside a child support order, the trial court concluded, as the motion asserted, that the child support provisions were unsupported by findings of fact, and the trial court set the child ...

  Although the respondent-mother initially said, “I don’t know” when the trial court asked if she wanted the help of an attorney, respondent ultimately clarified, after a series of follow-up questions, that she wished to proceed with the permanency planning ...

  On the drive home from a Georgia wake, the respondent-mother prepared formula for baby “Vinny,” using what she thought was water from a water bottle. Vinny suffered acute alcohol poisoning because respondent’s relatives had put alcohol in water bottles ...

  Plaintiff’s decedent died as a result of a collision caused when defendant French ran a stop sign. After the accident, a state Department of Transportation engineer prepared a report which recommended moving the sign closer to the road to ...

  The plaintiff-father contends that the family started residing in North Carolina when they came here from New York on 28 June 2017 and that their return to New York from 9 July 2017 until 18 August 2017 was merely ...

  During closing arguments, defense counsel, without defendant’s consent, told the jury that the issue was whether the victim had consented to sexual contact, thereby either misspeaking or admitting to one element of the forcible sexual offense charge against defendant. ...

  The petitioner-widow sought a spousal share of her late husband’s estate, but the estate’s executor proffered a 1978 prenuptial agreement as a bar to the widow’s claim. The widow claimed that her late husband had failed to provide her ...

  The plaintiff-lenders offered to cancel the defendant-corporation’s promissory notes in exchange for shares of stock in defendant. In response, defendant contends that it recorded the ownership of such shares by plaintiffs in defendant’s books. However, plaintiffs’ offer required defendant ...

  Although the trial court’s order does not use the language of G.S. § 7B-906.2(b), its findings are sufficient to support an ultimate finding that reunification efforts would be unsuccessful or would be inconsistent with the children’s health or safety. ...