IN RE H.L.A.D.

No. COA07-34.

646 S.E.2d 425 (2007)

In the Matter of H.L.A.D., Minor child.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

July 3, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sofie W. Hosford, Wilmington, for petitioners-appellees, James R. Helms and Crystal Helms.

Page Dolley Morgan, Gastonia, for Guardian ad Litem.

Duncan B. McCormick, Lillington, for respondent-appellant father.


STEELMAN, Judge.

When a court of this State, in an initial custody order, awards custody of a child to custodial guardians who thereafter move out of North Carolina, the courts of this State maintain exclusive, continuing jurisdiction pursuant to the Uniform Child-Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act when the guardians file a petition, in a separate action, for the termination of parental rights.

H.D. was born in 2002 in Gaston County, North Carolina....

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