Family Law Section
Scholarships Available For 2018 ‘Essentials Of Family Law’ CLE
Application Deadline is Oct. 22, 2018 Scholarships are available from the Family Law Section of the North Carolina Bar Association to NCBA members who are…
Case Summary: Watson 2018 – Equitable Distribution
Equitable Distribution, Unequal Distribution of Marital Property, Classification, Valuation; COA17-899; August 2018 Dwight Watson v. Gurtha Watson Wake County…
Case Summaries: August 2018 Unpublished
The Unpublished Cases – August 2018 Just because they are unpublished doesn’t mean this blog won’t give them some attention, albeit brief. CATHERINE A.…
NC COA Case Summary: Shell v. Shell
A custody order was entered in 2012. Plaintiffs are the paternal grandparents. Defendant is the father of the children, and Nicole is the mother. In 2012,…
Welcome To the Family Law Blog For 2018-19
This year, your Family Law Section Communications Committee Chairs intend to put some structure into blog posting to show the rest of the NCBA that the Family…
Case Summaries
Summaries by Jeff Russell, Rebecca Poole, Jennifer Smith, Rachel Beard, Katie Fowler and Jessica Heffner Custody Modification, Failed Reunification…
Case Law Updates: Equitable Distribution; Divorce, Remarriage and Divorce
and Becky Watts Equitable Distribution, Miller v. Miller, COA 16-486, April 18, 2017 In Miller v. Miller, the Court of Appeals addressed procedural and…
Modification Of a Foreign Child-Custody Order Under the UCCJEA When Multiple States Are Involved
What if a joint custody order is entered in a state where the parents and child once lived, but then the child and parents all move — with the child living…
Case Summaries: Custody Modification, Equitable Distribution, Change of Circumstances
NCBA Family Law Section , Rebecca Poole and Jennifer Smith Custody Modification; No Evidence Presented at Hearing Farmer v. Farmer, No. COA16-760, (June 6,…
Congress Overrides Seifert Rule for Military Pension Division
The New Pension Division Rule Without notice to North Carolina or consultation with its Congressional delegation, Congress enacted, on Dec. 23, 2016, the…