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NC Court of Appeals partly affirms, vacates child support ruling
NC Court of Appeals partly affirms, vacates, and remands child support case, requiring lower court to recalculate support and clarify children’s overnight stays.
UNSOLVED: Starlet disappears while having the time of her life
After starlet Jean Spangler disappeared Oct. 7, 1949, in Los Angeles, clues in the still-unsolved case pointed toward her ex-husband, mobsters or George Hodel, who was under suspicion in the infamous Black Dahlia murder, as possible suspects.
Child support obligation terminates only with judicial emancipation
A non-custodial divorced parent’s obligation to pay child support doesn’t automatically terminate when a child leaves the custodial parent’s home to live on his own, a divided panel of the […]
COA nixes ultra-slow child support payback plan
A trial court abused her discretion when she ordered a father to pay child support arrears of $24,400 at the rate of $100 per month—which would have taken more […]
Domestic Relations – Child Support – Limitation on Evidence – Consideration of Period After Remand
On remand from the court’s reversal of the trial court’s original child support order, the trial court exercised its discretion not to take additional evidence but erroneously made findings of […]
Domestic Relations – Child Support – Sua Sponte Modification – Custody – Autism Protocols – Contempt
Where there was neither a motion to modify child support nor any evidence presented about that issue, the trial court should not have modified defendant’s child support obligation sua sponte. […]
Domestic Relations – Alimony & Child Support – Income Sources – Equitable Distribution – Classification & Valuation
Kabasan v. Kabasan (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-015-18, 49 pp.) (Valerie Zachary, J.) Appealed from Buncombe County District Court (Andrea Dray, J.) N.C. App. Holding: In listing the income sources to […]
Domestic Relations – Unincorporated Separation Agreement – Child Support & Alimony – Husband’s Income – Specific Performance & Money Judgment
Lasecki v. Lasecki (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-385-17, 44 pp.) (Linda McGee, C.J.) Appealed from Iredell County District Court (Edward Hedrick IV, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though the plaintiff-husband’s income […]
Domestic Relations – Parent & Child – Support Modification – No Motion – Subject Matter Jurisdiction
Catawba County ex rel. Rackley v. Loggins (Lawyers Weekly No. 010-061-17, 28 pp.) (Michael Morgan, J.) (Mark Martin, C.J., joined by Sam Ervin IV, J., concurring in the result […]
Domestic Relations – Parent & Child – Support – Guidelines Deviation – Attorney’s Fees – Costs – Appeals
Sarno v. Sarno (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-289-17, 22 pp.) (Robert Hunter Jr., J.) (Hunter Murphy, J., dissenting) Appealed from Mecklenburg County District Court (Ronald Chapman, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even […]
Earmarking in arrears
There’s falling behind on your child support payments, and there’s falling behind more than $300,000 on your child support payments. Somehow, Dr. David Gerlach managed to do the latter. According […]
Domestic Relations – Parent & Child – Support – Civil Practice – Subject Matter Jurisdiction – High Income Case
Crews v. Paysour (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-057-17, 7 pp.) (Richard Dietz, J.) Appealed from Pitt County District Court (G. Galen Braddy, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Even if the trial […]
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