MATTER OF A.S.M.R.

No. 379A19.

850 S.E.2d 319 (2020)

In the MATTER OF: A.S.M.R. and M.C.R.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Filed November 20, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lauren Vaughan and Charles E. Wilson Jr. , Shelby, for petitioner-appellee Cleveland County Department of Social Services.

No brief for appellee Guardian ad Litem.

Leslie Rawls , Charlotte, for respondent-appellant father.

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


The issues in this case are whether (1) the existence of non-jurisdictional defects in an unappealed order adjudicating a juvenile to be neglected deprives a department of social services of standing to subsequently move for the termination of parental rights as to that juvenile; and (2) a trial court is required to make explicit...

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