In Re MG

681 S.E.2d 290 (2009)

In the Matter of M.G., M.B., K.R., J.R.

No. 36PA08.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

August 28, 2009.

Elizabeth Kennedy-Gurnee, Staff Attorney, for petitioner-appellant Cumberland County Department of Social Services; and Beth A. Hall, Attorney Advocate, Fayetteville, for Guardian ad Litem.

Lisa Skinner Lefler, Wilmington, for respondent-appellee mother.

Annick Lenoir-Peek, Assistant Appellate Defender, for respondent-appellee father.

MARTIN, Justice.

We allowed discretionary review in this case to consider when an amendment to a juvenile petition "change[s] the nature of the…