Ceasing reunification efforts, permanency planning order, home and employment, parental fitness,constitutionally protected parental status

Worker's Compensation; Competent evidence supported Industrial Commission's findings of fact; Date of maximum medical improvement; N.C. Gen. Stat. 97-31; Industrial Commission Review of Form 26A, Employer's Admission of Employee's Right to Permanent Partial Disability; N.C. Gen. Stat. 97-17; Commission did not err by declining to set aside Form 26A.

ordinance, zoning, board of adjustment, vested rights

probation violation, unchallenged findings & conclusions, no notice of appeal, extension of supervision, direct criminal contempt, PWC, N.C. Gen. Stat. 1347, N.C. Gen. Stat. 5A-11

defense of others; jury instruction; disqualifying felony; causal nexus; prejudicial error; motion to dismiss for insufficiency of the evidence.

standing; zoning; action for declaratory judgment; trial court did not err in dismissing complaint for lack of standing where adjacent landowner only supported his allegations of standing with owner's opinion evidence of diminution in value and allegations did not allege how his property was affected by rezoning distinct from the community

Termination of parental rights, required findings of fact to support adjudication, circumstances at the time of hearing

Visitation; length of visitation; virtual visitation; neglect; prejudicial statements from the bench; case plan requirements; motion for review of visitation plan.

summary judgment; plaintiff's recovery barred by contributory negligence; no gross negligence

Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss; Service of the complaint and summons on an uninsured motorist carrier; NCGS 20-279.21(b)(3)(a); and statute of limitations