IN RE L.M.T.

No. 40PA13.

752 S.E.2d 453 (2013)

In the Matter of L.M.T., A.M.T.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

December 20, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher L. Carr and Elizabeth Kennedy-Gurnee for Cumberland County Department of Social Services, and Beth A. Hall , Attorney Advocate for the Guardian ad Litem, petitioner-appellants.

J. Thomas Diepenbrock , Asheville, for respondent-appellee-mother.

Annick Lenoir-Peek , Assistant Appellate Defender, for Office of Parent Representation, amicus curiae.


NEWBY, Justice.

In this case we consider the statutory requirement that a trial court make certain findings of fact in matters involving the legal separation of a parent and child. Though a trial court is required to make written findings of fact in a permanency planning order that consider the factors in section 7B-507 of our General Statutes, these findings need not recite the statutory language verbatim. When reviewing the sufficiency of such orders, an appellate...

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