North Carolina Family Law legal questions and top-rated attorney answers

North Carolina Family Law questions and answers

• I feel that I was set up and provoked so my spouse could get control of property. DVO. Is this something the court would consider?

  Asked in Hickory, NC | December 11, 2025

  Recently purchased a house and dumped all my savings into it. I believe that my wife and stepson planned out an argument to provoke me and take out DVO To get control of my assets/ property. Neither one helped with purchase or repairs. They locked me out and were waiting at the entrance. I was intoxicated. My stepson produced a gun and I slapped him and tried to get it. He then held me and my brother in law at gunpoint. 911 was called. I think my wife was acting the whole time. She took out papers and police arrested me without talking to any witnesses there besides those two.

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• Help with a coerced relinquishment of parental rights

  Asked in Kings Mountain, NC | March 2, 2026

  Judge dismissed with prejudice, told me if I file again, he's locking me up, so I'm not filing in 7b. I'm filing special proceedings, and this judge is assigned. Help what do I do?

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• We are parents of a one year old trying to protect her from toxic grandparent relationships. What can we do in advance?

  Asked in Asheville, NC | November 25, 2025

  We live about 3 hours from grandparents. They have never respected our boundaries with our lives and that of our daughter. We want to have a pleasant holiday interaction (or none at all) and want to get ahead of things with a legal document, maybe, that all parties would sign and agree to in terms of presents, visitation(s), rules for our child, etc. We have ample reason to not trust either set of grandparents and the past toxicity is insane. We don’t want any trouble this year or damage to our child. Thanks!

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