Appointment of Guardian ad Litem for Juvenile; Termination of Parental Rights

Termination of parental rights; hearsay; public records and excited utterance exceptions; grounds for termination; manslaughter

Administrative law; interpretation of the limitation periof of 27 N.C.A.C. 1B.0111(e)

Insurance coverage

Aggravating factors pre-Blakely Act, N.C.G.S. § 15A-1340.16

Robbery with a Dangerous Weapon; Kidnapping; Concurrent or Consecutive Sentences

Probation; Revocation and Extension

Judge's Comments on Evidence; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 15A-1222; Court's Questions to a Witness

Tort Claims Act; State Hospital; Unchallenged Findings of Fact

Notice of Charging Lien for Attorney Fees; Rule 11

Post judgment interest; N.C.G.S. § 1-23 9(a)

Summary judgment; contract; frustration of purpose

Equitable distribution; whether death of one spouse after date of separation but before divorce converts real property held as tenants by entirety to surviving spouse's separate property

Interlocutory appeal from denial of motion to dismiss; subect matter jurisdiction; church governance issues

Dependent child; appeal from order granting legal custody to biological father; trial court's jurisdiction to conduct evidentiary hearing once juvenile matter has been closed

Judicial removal; failure to file federal income tax return

Whether child's bruising from corporatl punishment is sufficient evidence of parental abuse and neglect as defined in N.C.G.S. § 7B-101

Whether grounds existed to terminate parental rights based on neglect

Crime against nature law; statutory construction; application to minors less than three years apart in age