MATTER OF T.W.

No. COA16-399.

796 S.E.2d 792 (2016)

In the MATTER OF: T.W.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

Filed: October 18, 2016.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Associate Attorney Christopher C. Peace for petitioner-appellee Mecklenburg County Department of Social Services, Youth and Family Services.

The Opoku-Mensah Law Firm, by Gertrude Opoku-Mensah , for guardian ad litem.

Appellate Defender Glenn Gerding by Assistant Appellate Defender Joyce L. Terres for respondent-appellant mother.


Mother appeals from an order of the trial court which, inter alia, appointed her sister ("Aunt") as custodian of her minor child, Thomas,1 born in February 2009. We affirm the order in part, vacate in part, and remand for further proceedings.

On 23 November 2014, Mecklenburg County Youth...

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