North Carolina Lawyers Weekly

The respondent-mother’s children were removed from her care because of substance abuse, mental health, and domestic violence issues, none of which she resolved. Indeed, the mother was unemployed, relied on her mother to meet her expenses, lived in a storage ...

After many positive drug tests and no progress on her case plan, respondent’s parental rights were terminated. Respondent’s counsel has filed a no-merit brief pursuant to N.C. R. App. P. 3.1(e). Counsel advised respondent of her right to file a ...

On a prior appeal, we remanded for the trial court to make findings regarding the willfulness of the respondent-mother’s failure to interact with the minor child, given domestic violence protective orders prohibiting respondent from contacting the minor child’s father, a ...

The trial court granted one defendant’s motion to dismiss, but plaintiff’s claims against other defendants remain pending. According to the allegations of the complaint, the liability of the defendants is not joint; rather, the liability of the dismissed defendant is ...

In 1986, the parties were living together, and plaintiff arranged for land she had paid for to be titled in defendant’s name. Given plaintiff’s multiple requests that defendant deed the property back to her; defendant’s consistent refusals; the fact that ...

A commercial lease gave the defendant-tenant the option to extend the lease “by giving Landlord prior written notice, at least six (6) months in advance of Expiration Date, or Tenant’s election to extend the term; it being agreed that time ...

Defendant asserted that his trial judge (1) was a former assistant district attorney who prosecuted him for one of the offenses that now serves as a conviction supporting his habitual felon indictment, (2) is married to a former Iredell County ...

Where the state alleged that defendant had absconded probation supervision by failing to report as directed by his probation officer, failing to return the officer’s phone calls, and failing to provide the officer with a certifiable address, and where the ...

Faced with evidence of the plaintiff-mother’s dysfunctional relationship with her parents, the trial court should have made, but did not make, findings as to more of the factors set out in Ramirez-Barker v. Barker, 107 N.C. App. 71, 418 S.E.2d ...

  Even though evidence of respondent’s mental illness and involuntary commitment history show that she had been a danger to herself in the past, since her doctor’s testimony shows that, as of the hearing date, respondent was stabilized, medicated and ...