Boone v. Hayes-Boone (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-161-17, 13 pp.) (Mark Davis, J.) Appealed from Iredell County District Court (H. Thomas Church, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Where the trial court properly found that the defendant-mother was convicted of cocaine possession ...

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A district court judge did not err by ordering a graduated visitation schedule for the plaintiff father that will culminate in 2020 with the father’s sharing equal custody of his three minor children, the state Court of Appeals unanimously held ...

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Williams v. Chaney (Lawyers Weekly No. 011-220-17, 24 pp.) (Donna Stroud, J.) Appealed from Lincoln County District Court (Larry Wilson, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Since the trial court’s October 2013 custody order, the only changes have been negative: failed efforts ...

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Williams v. Chaney (Lawyers Weekly No. 012-035-16, 13 pp.) (Valerie Zachary, J.) Appealed from Lincoln County District Court (Larry Wilson, C.J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: When the trial court denied visitation to the plaintiff-mother, G.S. § 50-13.5(i) required the court ...

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In re J.D.R. (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-07-0646, 21 pp.) (Linda McGee, C.J.) Appealed from Rutherford County District Court (Laura Powell, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Because the trial court did not make the finding required by G.S. § 7B-911(c)(2)(a) – that ...

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In re J.C. (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-06-0594, 2 pp.) (Per Curiam) Appealed from Johnston County District Court (Resson Faircloth, J.) On appeal from a divided panel of the N.C. Court of Appeals. N.C. S. Ct. Holding: The district court made ...

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In re N.B. (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-07-0303, 21 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) Appealed from Mecklenburg County District Court (Louis Trosch, J.) N.C. App. Holding: Even though a New York court previously ruled that the respondent-mother had neglected her children, since ...

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Leazer v. Leazer (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-0177, 7 pp.) (Chris Dillon, J.) Appealed from Rowan County District Court (D. Brent Cloninger, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: Contrary to the intervenor-grandparents’ contention that the trial court denied them visitation, the trial ...

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Peeples v. Peeples (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-0131, 15 pp.) (John Tyson, J.) Appealed from Rowan County District Court (Beth Dixon, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: The trial court’s finding of fact 14 – “That since the summer of 2013, Plaintiff ...

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Bobbitt v. Eizenga (Lawyers Weekly No. 15-16-0050, 19 pp.) (Sam Ervin IV, J.) Appealed from Davie County District Court (Mary Covington, J.) N.C. App. Unpub. Holding: The trial court’s custody-related findings establish little more than that the parties’ child has ...

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