Appellate Court Opinions

Interlocutory appeal; NCGS 1-277; substantial right; NCGS 1A-1, Rule 26, NCGS 1A-1, Rule 45; statutory construction; attorney-client privilege; work product; privilege log; content of subpoena.

Interlocutory; N.C. Gen. Stat. 1-267.1(a1); Three-Judge Panel; and Facial Challenge

Evidentiary standard; constitutionally protected parental status; reunification efforts; and N.C. Gen. Stat. 7B-906.2(b)

juvenile; disposition; transcript of admission; knowing and voluntary admission

Separation agreement; child support; Pataky presumption; attorney?s fees, and imputation of income.

Violation of a nonjurisdictional rule; substantial and gross violation; sanctions under Rule 34(b).

Marital property; separate property; divisible property; summary judgment; equitable division; North Carolina Equitable Distribution Act; education; educational debt; student loans; marital debt; adult children

Criminal; Motion to Suppress; Search and Seizure; Probable Cause; and Staleness.

Involuntary manslaughter; motion to strike jury venire; sufficiency of evidence; culpable negligence; proximate cause; validity of indictment

Appeal from order terminating respondent-father's parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(7), willful abandonment of the juvenile.

Termination of parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1) (2019); sufficiency of the evidence.

Appeal from order terminating respondent-father's parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(7), willful abandonment of the juvenile.

Termination of parental rights; No-merit brief; Sufficiency of the evidence and the trial court's findings of fact to support the trial court's determination that respondent-mother's parental rights were subject to termination and the extent to which termination of respondent-mother's parental rights would be in the children's best interests.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court operated under a misapprehension of law when it terminated respondent-mother's parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(2).

Termination of parental rights; no-merit brief.

Termination of parental rights; whether respondent's parental rights were subject to termination based on neglect; whether the trial court abused its discretion in determining that termination was in the minor child's best interests.

Termination of parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1), (2), (6), (7) (2019). No-merit review pursuant to Rule 3.1(e) of the North Carolina Rules of Appellate Procedure.

Termination of parental rights; adjudication of willful failure to pay a reasonable portion of the juveniles' cost of care under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(3); existence of a voluntary support agreement as evidence of respondent-parent's ability to pay an amount more than zero.