Cline v. Cline

The Uniform Reciprocal Enforcement of Support Act was adopted in North Carolina in 1951. For the background of the Act see Mahan v. Read, 240 N.C. 641, 83 S.E. 2d 706 (1954). For comments pertaining thereto, see 29 N.C.L. Rev. 423 and Lee, North Carolina Family Law, § 169. See also 38 N.C.L. Rev. 1 for an article on the subject of family support.

The Act was amended in 1955 and again in 1959. When the statute was first enacted in 1951, jurisdiction was confined to the Superior Courts. Now the Act provides:

“. . . Jurisdiction of all proceedings hereunder shall be vested in any court of record…