In re K.N.

WYNN, Judge.

"When the State moves to destroy weakened familial bonds, it must provide the parents with fundamentally fair procedures,"1 which in North Carolina has been achieved in part through statutory provisions that ensure a parent's right to counsel and right to adequate notice of such proceedings.2 Here, we find that the proceedings below, culminating in the termination of Respondent-mother's parental rights as to the minor child K.N., failed to provide the procedures necessary to ensure fairness to the rights of Respondent-mother. We, therefore, vacate the order of termination.

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