SMITH v. BARBOUR

No. COA07-1083.

671 S.E.2d 578 (2009)

Tony Ray SMITH, Plaintiff, v. Staci Day BARBOUR and Bilal Kanawati, Defendants, v. Collene Barbour and Stacy Barbour, Intervenors.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 3, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hatch, Little & Bunn, LLP, by Elizabeth T. Martin; and Wake Family Law Group, by Helen M. Oliver, for plaintiff-appellant.

Staci D. Barbour, Raleigh, pro se defendant-appellee.

No brief filed on behalf of defendant-appellee Kanawati.

Sandlin & Davidian, PA, by Deborah Sandlin and Debra A. Griffiths, Raleigh, for intervenors-appellees.


GEER, Judge.

Plaintiff Tony Ray Smith appeals from orders modifying custody of his daughter ("the minor child"), granting the maternal grandparents' motion to intervene, reallocating the sharing of the costs of a court-ordered evaluation of the child, and requiring the father to pay a portion of the grandparents' attorneys' fees. Mr. Smith primarily contends that the trial court erred in concluding that an earlier custody order was temporary in nature and applying...

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