Termination of a career State employee; Warren analysis.

attorney's fees, State employee grievance

Evidence required at permanency planning hearing

Child custody; Termination of Juvenile Court jurisdiction.

Summary ejectment; lease agreement; holdover provision; renewal by operation of common law; waiver; novation

Divorce, alimony and child support; consent judgment; separate property; release; distribution of proceeds; changed conditions; substantial change in circumstances; modification of consent order; attorneys fees; voluntary increased support payment.

citation; amendment; shoplifting; larceny

First Degree Murder, Murder by Starvation, Criminal Procedure, Fatal Variance

motion to suppress, search directly related to supervision

false testimony; material and knowingly and intentionally used; credibility

Discharge of firearm into vehicle; Sentencing error.

Criminal court costs; meaning of in every criminal case in costs statute; statutory construction; costs not intended to be punitive

Voluntary absence by intoxication; waiver of right to be present at trial; no error in failing to conduct competency hearing before proceeding with trial; no error in amending judgments to correct clerical error ex parte

First degree murder, attempted murder, competency, not guilty by reason of insanity, waiver to admit criminal acts

Dismissal of custody action for lack of standing; whether the plaintiff alleged sufficient facts both to prove a close relationship to child and to overcome defendants' protected status as natural parents.

Whether landowners' operation of a firing range in an unincorporated area of the county is subject to the county zoning ordinance regulating outdoor firing ranges; whether the Court of Appeals erred in vacating the superior court's order that declared the use legal and remanding the matter to the Board of Adjustment for necessary findings of fact.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court erred in failing to make the written findings required by statute; whether the trial court abused its discretion in finding that termination of respondent's parental rights was not in the best interests of the children.

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court received sufficient evidence and made adequate findings of fact to support an adjudication of grounds under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1) and (7).

Termination of parental rights; whether the trial court erred by granting a motion made pursuant to N.C.G.S. 1A-1, Rule 60 after notice of appeal had been filed where the judge who signed the orders terminating parental rights was not the judge who presided over the termination hearing.