Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the case because the juvenile petition initiating the action was not verified as required by law.

Whether the State presented sufficient evidence to show that defendant failed to report a change of address as required under the North Carolina sex offender registration program; whether there was a fatal variance between the indictment and the proof offered at trial.

Whether third-party defendants, a nonprofit corporation under contract with a County to provide fire and rescue services and its employee, should be dismissed from a negligence action on the basis of governmental and public officer immunity; whether third-party defendants adequately pleaded or properly produced documents in support of an immunity defense.

Whether the State presented sufficient evidence that defendant failed to report his change of address as required under the N.C. sex offender registration program.

Whether defendant was deprived of his right to a unanimous jury verdict when the trial court erroneously instructed the jury on an alternate theory to support a conviction for first-degree kidnapping when that theory was not supported by the evidence.

Following sale of a former family business, whether summary judgment should have been granted for sellers on purchaser's claims for breach of a non-compete agreement and for tortious interference with current and future customer contracts; extent of trial court's authority to revise geographic restrictions in the non-compete covenant.

Petition by purchaser of undivided one-half interest in land to partition the property; whether respondent cotenants acquired sole title to the property via their ancestor's constructive ouster of all others having an ownership interest in the land.

Constitutionality of repeal in 2013 of public school teachers' Career Status Law; challenges based on Contract Clause of the Federal Constitution and Law of the Land Clause of the N.C. Constitution.

Whether, at defendant's trial for sexual abuse of a child, the trial court erred in admitting expert opinion testimony supporting the allegations of abuse.

Whether a plaintiff who waited seven years after filing her initial complaint for child custody and support to prosecute her claim for child support waived her right to past child support during that seven-year interim.