In Re TRP

636 S.E.2d 787 (2006)

In the Matter of T.R.P.

No. 629A05.

Supreme Court of North Carolina.

November 17, 2006.

Paul W. Freeman, Jr., Wilkesboro, for petitioner-appellant Wilkes County Department of Social Services.

Robert W. Ewing, Winston-Salem, for respondent-appellee mother.

EDMUNDS, Justice.

In this case we consider whether the trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter a review order when the juvenile petition that initiated the case was not verified as mandated by N.C.G.S. § 7B-403(a). Because we hold that the district court could not exercise subject matter jurisdiction here in the absence of the…