Shoaf v. Shoaf

HEDRICK, Judge.

The only question presented on this appeal is whether G.S. 48A-2, effective 5 July 1971, relieved the defendant of his obligation to pay support for his son Jeffrey Byron Shoaf under the terms of the consent judgment dated 11 June 1970.

G.S. 48A-1 provides: “The common law definition of minor insofar as it pertains to the age of the minor is hereby repealed and abrogated.” G.S. 48A-2 provides: “A minor child is any person who has not reached the age of 18 years.”

The defendant contends that his son Jeffrey Byron Shoaf, having become 18 years of age on 13 January 1971, “reached…