You may find these articles interesting – other Administrative Law Section members did.

Members of the Administrative Law Section found the following recent third party articles interesting:

Regarding contested case records retention:  Retaining Contested Cases, Emily Sweitzer / June 25, 2019, Archives, NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources .  This post applies to any State-level agency, including occupational licensing boards, that works with the Office of Administrative Hearings to resolve contested cases.

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Interstate Support Orders – Henry C. Watkins v. Jennifer L. Benjamin

By Ashley Grim

Henry C. Watkins v. Jennifer L. Benjamin (f/k/a Watkins), Published 

Defendant and her trial counsel appealed from the trial court’s order of 28 December 2017 which concluded that North Carolina retained ongoing, exclusive jurisdiction of the matters of custody and support of the minor children..  The Court of Appeals affirmed.

A temporary consent order was entered on 17 July 2014 awarding Plaintiff father and Defendant mother joint custody of the children with primary placement to Plaintiff in Buncombe County.  On 9 October 2015, an order was entered which found Defendant had relocated to Maryland, awarded custody to Plaintiff, and ordered Defendant to pay Plaintiff child support (including arrears) and temporary prospective child support.

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New Resource for Low-Cost Health Care and Related Legal Services in the Triangle!

By Lori Jessee

Last year, the Health Law Section was thrilled to work with the Carolina Health Law Organization (CHLO) at the UNC School of Law in expanding the Section’s Access to Affordable Care Project to the Triangle area.  This work will help so many people in need of medical care—care that is too often out of reach.  The students have done an amazing job and we are incredibly proud of their work.

Thank you to the members of CHLO, along with Professor Richard Saver, Arch T. Allen Distinguished Professor, University of North Carolina School of Law.  We also greatly appreciate the North Carolina Society of Healthcare Attorneys in its generous grant funding for this project.

The students have compiled a great resource that is now in print, both Spanish and English, and online for easy access: https://go.unc.edu/CHLO19.  The students are also working to distribute booklets to sites across Chapel Hill, Durham, and Raleigh (i.e. community centers, libraries, homeless shelters, women’s centers, clinics, rape crises centers, social service nonprofits, etc.) to reach their target communities.  Additional booklets are available upon request.

This article explains more about the associated grant award and project, and also links to the resource online:

https://law.unc.edu/news/2018/07/health-law-grant-low-income-medical-resource/.