Derian v. Derian The parties’ 2005 consent order required the defendant-father to pay $3,209.52 per month in child support “until further Order of the Court or agreement of the parties.” The father reduced his monthly child support payments to $1,600 in December 2005, and the plaintiff-mother accepted the reduced payment without objection for 35 months while she was represented by able counsel.

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In re D.M. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-07-0403, 11 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Orange County District Court. (Joseph Moody Buckner, J.) N.C. App. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: When custody is granted to a ...

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"You are free to leave" is a statement that seems easy enough to understand. But when those words are told to a young person at school, does the child's age make a difference under Miranda v. Arizona? That's the question the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court considered March 23 during oral arguments in J.D.B v. North Carolina. The case involves a 13-year-old special education student who was questioned by police at his Chapel Hill middle school about recent burglaries in which a digital camera and jewelry were stolen.

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In re J.V.J. (Lawyers Weekly No. 11-07-2010, 7 pp.) (Linda Stephens, J.) On writ of certiorari from Orange County District Court. (Beverly Scarlett, J.) N.C. App. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: An order adjudicating a ...

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Stanford v. Paris. The testator's gift of his stock, which became the same proportional interest in the same assets upon their transfer from a dissolved corporation to a partnership, did remain in his estate in specie as personal property at the time of his . . .

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In re A.S.Y. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-07-1217, 16 pp.) (Ann Marie Calabria, J.) Appealed from Orange County District Court. (Page Vernon, J.) N.C. App. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: The trial court appointed a guardian ...

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Bohannan v. McManaway. Where the March 15, 2007, custody order includes the patent falsehood that defendant had failed to file an answer, and where the trial court entered the permanent custody order without hearing testimony, the trial court . . .

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State v. Nickerson. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-07-1099, 9 pp.) (Donna S. Stroud, J.) Appealed from Orange County Superior Court. (Orlando F. Hudson, J.) N.C. App. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: Where defendant presented evidence that ...

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Liability in the underlying case was not contested, but the amount of available UIM coverage was the subject of a declaratory-judgment action. Seventeen-year-old Lilli Manis was killed by a 19-year-old drunk driver, Justin Crouse, in the early-morning hours of July ...

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State v. Nickerson. (Lawyers Weekly No. 10-07-0959, 9 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Orange County Superior Court (Orlando. F. Hudson, J.) N.C. App. Click here for the full text of the opinion. Holding: In a case in which a ...

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