Termination of parental rights; denial of petition for failure to prove ground for termination under N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a); sufficiency of findings of fact and conclusions of law under N.C.G.S. 7B-1109(e), -1110(c)

Termination of parental rights; collateral attack of an initial custody determination prohibited on appeal of an order terminating parental rights; motion to terminate parental rights must provide sufficient notice of the alleged grounds; insufficient evidence and findings of fact to support termination of respondent-father's parental rights.

Termination of parental rights; whether termination order was properly entered pursuant to Rules 52 and 63 of the North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure.

Appeal from an order terminating parental rights for neglect pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1); whether the record supports the trial court's findings of fact; whether the trial court's findings of fact support its determination that the juvenile had been neglected in the past and that the likelihood of repetition of future neglect was high.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred by concluding that the trial court erred by denying defendant's motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict and rejecting defendant's requested jury instruction.

Appeal of an interlocutory order of a business court judge pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7A-27(a)(3).

Whether a contract in which a buyer offers to purchase real property constitutes an evidence of indebtedness for purposes of N.C.G.S. 6-21.2 so as to entitle the prevailing party in an action to recover an earnest money deposit to an award of reasonable attorney's fees.

Whether the decision of the North Carolina Utilities Commission to authorize the amortization of the costs of remediating coal ash waste to rates over a ten-year period while denying the Company the ability to earn a return on the unamortized balance of those costs was arbitrary and capricious.

Whether imposition of two consecutive sentences which together make a juvenile defendant eligible for parole after forty-five years in prison constituted de facto life without parole in violation of the state or federal constitutions as applied to a juvenile offender found guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree rape and who the trial court determined was neither incorrigible nor irredeemable.

Whether the trial court properly denied defendant's motion to dismiss for insufficiency of the evidence.

Whether imposition of two consecutive sentences of life with parole constituted de facto life without parole in violation of the state or federal constitutions as applied to juvenile offender found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder who trial court determined to be not incorrigible.

Petition for writ of certiorari; whether the Court of Appeals is constrained by N.C. R. App. P. 21 in exercising its discretion to allow or deny the writ.

Whether the trial court's findings of fact in its order denying defendant's motion to suppress were supported by competent evidence; whether the seizure and subsequent search of defendant was constitutional.

Personal jurisdiction; whether a nonresident defendant's contract has a substantial connection with North Carolina.

Whether the trial court considered matters outside the pleading and thus converted a Rule 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss to a Rule 56 motion for summary judgment.

Whether, under common law agency tenets, a principal in a joint real estate development venture is imputed with the knowledge of a co-principal's intent to defraud creditors by way of an insider conveyance of real estate property that is the subject of a lawsuit filed by the co-principal's creditor.

Whether the Court of Appeals erred in applying a de novo standard of review in reviewing findings of the Industrial Commission under the timely-filing requirement of N.C.G.S. 97-24 and reversing the Commission's dismissal of plaintiff's claim on that basis.

Appeal from order terminating respondent's parental rights; termination of respondent's parental rights pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(1); neglect.

Termination of parental rights; adjudication of ground for termination of willful abandonment pursuant to N.C.G.S. 7B-1111(a)(7).