Child-custody; UCCJEA; ?home state;? significant connection;? simultaneous proceedings; temporary emergency jurisdiction; continuing jurisdiction; stay

Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act; Consent to Jurisdiction Clause in Contract; Choice of Law; Interpretation of Contract Governed By Place Where Contract is Made

Probation Revocation; Jurisdiction; Competency Hearing

Reasonable suspicion
Anonymous tip
High-crime area

Direct criminal contempt; Willfulness; Petition for Writ of Certiorari; Sentencing stipulations; Determination of prior record level.

child support; alimony; attorney fees

Show cause hearing on whether to hold defendant in civil contempt for willful failure to pay current and past child support obligations; whether the district court's findings of fact supported its conclusion that defendant should be held in contempt; whether the findings were sufficient to show that defendant had the present ability to financially satisfy the conditions required to purge the contempt.

Appeal from order of N.C. Business Court sanctioning counsel under Rule of Civil Procedure 37(d).

Whether the State presented sufficient evidence to survive defendant's motions to dismiss the charges for which he was convicted; whether the trial court committed prejudicial error in allowing the alleged child victim to testify remotely or in not intervening ex mero motu in certain closing arguments by the prosecutor.

Appeal from convictions for attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury; whether the short-form indictment charging attempted murder was fatally defective; whether the trial court erred in not intervening ex mero motu in the State's closing arguments.

Workers' Compensation; Average Weekly Wage Calculation; NCGS § 97-2(5); Method 5

Jury Instructions; Breach of Fiduciary Duty; Controlling Shareholder

Industrial Commission; Findings of Fact; Motion to Consolidate

Interlocutory appeal; Substantial right; Collateral estoppel; Foreclosure

Motion to Dismiss; Failure to Prosecute; Abuse of Discretion; Summary Judgment; Contracts; Breach; Remedies

Child custody; nonparent; constitutionally protected status; abandonment

Permanency planning; Termination of juvenile jurisdiction and transfer to civil custody proceeding; Conceded error; Requirement of live testimony at permanency planning hearing under N.C. Gen. Stat. 7B-906.1(c); Intervention by non-parent

3.1; Appointment of guardian ad litem for parent; Termination of parental rights; Neglect

Breach of insurance contract; unfair and deceptive trade practices; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 58-63-15; N.C. Gen. Stat. § 75-1.1; breach of settlement agreement; privity

motion to dismiss; sufficiency of the evidence; possession of methamphetamine precursor chemical; constructive possession