County of Durham ex rel. Wilson v. Burnette
Supreme Court of North Carolina
County of Durham ex rel. Wilson v. Burnette
Opinion
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NORTH CAROLINA
No. 404A18
Filed 29 March 2019 COUNTY OF DURHAM, by and through DURHAM DSS, ex rel. SHARON L. WILSON and TIFFANY A. KING
v. ROBERT BURNETTE
Appeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, ___ N.C. App. ___, 821 S.E.2d 840 (2018), vacating orders entered on 23 November 2016 by Judge Fred Battaglia in District Court, Durham County, and remanding for entry of new orders. Heard in the Supreme Court on 6 March 2019.
Office of the County Attorney, by Geri Ruzage, Senior Assistant County
Attorney, for plaintiff-appellant.
Mary McCullers Reece for defendant-appellee.
PER CURIAM.
AFFIRMED.
Justice DAVIS did not participate in the consideration or decision of this case.
Reference
- Status
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- Syllabus
- 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.