By Rebecca Watts Sprinkle v. Johnson, NC Court of Appeals, August 3, 2021 Mrs. Sprinkle worked for Dr. Johnson for 17 years; during the last four of those years, she had a romantic and sexual relationship with Dr. Johnson. Mrs. Sprinkle ultimately confessed the affair to her husband and left her job. The Sprinkles did […]
By Rebecca Watts Munoz v. Munoz, NC Court of Appeals, August 3, 2021 (Custody) During the marriage, the parties preferred not to place the child in daycare, and so they relied upon family help to care for the child and nearly always had a family member living with them and assisting in care for the […]
By Rebecca Watts Putnam v. Putnam, NC Court of Appeals, August 3, 2021 (Alimony) Husband and wife resolved equitable distribution via a consent order. Pursuant to the terms of that order, husband retained the parties’ business and paid wife a distributive award of approximately $3,000,000. Alimony and child support were later heard by the trial […]
By Ketan Soni All the divorce laws are still wrong. Nothing has changed in the past 30 days since my last blog post on child support. To be clear, the bonus and commission rules aren’t the only things wrong with child support. More to come on that in later posts. I’m throwing out softballs to […]
By Ketan Soni All the divorce laws are wrong. Just kidding. However, since our Chair, Katie King, put up a constructive and positive blog post, I will try to be the antithesis this year as the Vice Chair. To that end, there’s a bunch of stuff we deal with on a daily basis that is […]
By Kristopher J. Hilscher The following is a hypothetical illustrating problems and interplay between pension jurisdiction and divorce for military servicepersons. The Initial Problem Lisa approached Tom. The time had come. It was the “D” word they’d been avoiding. No, not a new dog . . . Lisa wanted a divorce. Tom knew the divorce […]
By Katie H. King Dear Family Law Section Members, It is an honor to serve as your Section Chair for 2021-2022. Thank you to Mitchell Kelling for her leadership as Chair last year and for all those who served and continue to serve as committee chairs and in other leadership roles. And thank you to […]
By Mitchell Kelling Each year, the Family Law Section is usually fortunate enough to have sufficient funds left over to make several donations. This year, the Council elected to make donations to the UNC School of Government in honor of Cheryl Howell and to the North Carolina Bar Foundation with the funds earmarked for Free […]
By Rebecca Watts Craven County o/b/o Wooten v. Hageb, Court of Appeals of North Carolina, June 1, 2021 (Child Support) Father and mother have two children together. Father has three other minor children from previous relationships – two of those other children live with him. Mother is a W-2 employee and father is self-employed. In its […]
By Rebecca Watts DiPrima v. Vann, COA20-545, Court of Appeals of North Carolina, May 18, 2021 A sixteen-year-old plaintiff sought a 50C order against a seventeen-year-old defendant after the defendant intimidated and harassed her by following and touching her without her consent, threatening to kill or harm her if she stopped being his friend, threatening […]