HEATZIG v. MACLEAN

No. COA07-875.

664 S.E.2d 347 (2008)

Marina HEATZIG, Plaintiff, v. Elizabeth MACLEAN, Defendant, v. B.A. Maclean and Wife, Charlotte Maclean, Intervenor Defendants and Cross-Complainants.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

August 5, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patterson Harkavy, LLP, by Burton Craige, Raleigh, and Epting & Hackney, by Karen P. Davidson, Chapel Hill, for plaintiff-appellee.

Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton, LLP, by K. Edward Greene, Tobias S. Hampson, and D. Caldwell Barefoot, Jr., Raleigh, for defendant-appellant.


STEELMAN, Judge.

Where the trial court improperly attempted to confer parental status on plaintiff and failed to conduct a proper analysis under Price v. Howard, the judgment of the trial court must be reversed, and the case remanded for further findings of fact.

I. Factual and Procedural Background from Trial Court Orders

Elizabeth MacLean (defendant) and Marina Heatzig (plaintiff) met in 1992 in San Francisco, California. They became...

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