Equitable Distribution; Distributive Award; Uniform Fraudulent Transfer Act

ability to comply, noncompliance not wilful

Juvenile delinquency; Entity capable of owning property; Motion to dismiss; Sentencing; Dispositional alternatives

Waiver of the right to compel arbitration; Standard of review the denial of a motion to compel arbitration

Adverse possession under color of title, NCGS 1-38(a); adverse possession under 20 years continuous use, NCGS 1-40; findings of fact not supported by competent evidence; lappage; conclusions of law de novo review.

summary judgment; statute of limitations; competency

robbery with a dangerous weapon, multiple punishments, different offenses, legislative intent

Facial validity of indictment; essential elements of crime of littering; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-399 (a)

Suppression motion

Whether the Department of Public Safety had just cause to terminate a corrections officer from employment for allegedly unacceptable conduct; application of Chapters 126 and 150B to the employee's appeal from an administrative law judge's final decision reversing the termination and imposing a lesser sanction.

Whether N.C.G.S. 7B-901(c) allows a trial court to make an initial finding of aggravated circumstances in the same disposition order that directs cessation of reunification efforts, or whether such a finding must be made in a separate, previous order.

Appeal from conviction for indecent liberties with a child; whether testimony by defendant's wife should have been excluded under the marital communications privilege and Rule of Evidence 404(b); application of N.C.G.S. 8-57, 8-57.1, and 7B-310.

Motion to suppress evidence; whether the trial court properly determined that defendant was not seized and that his Fourth Amendment rights thus were not implicated.

Negligence suit by spectator hit by a baseball while at defendant's ball field; whether defendant met its duty of care to plaintiff under 'The Baseball Rule'; whether trial court erred in granting summary judgment for defendant in lieu of letting the matter go before a jury.

NCGS 160A-393 judicial review; motion to dismiss; failure to name a necessary party; proper respondent; special use permit

Solar farm; use permit; prima facie showing; harmonious use; rebuttal evidence.

subject matter jurisdiction; clerical error

Unincorporated Separated Agreement; Child Support; Alimony; Changed Circumstances; Employment; Motion to Reopen the Evidence; Specific Performance; Contract