Skinner v. Skinner

PARKER, Judge.

Plaintiff first assigns error to the court’s actions in allowing the defendant’s motion to strike the verification to his complaint and in dismissing plaintiff’s action for absolute divorce. This assignment has merit.

G.S. 50-8 requires that “[i]n all actions for divorce the complaint shall be verified in accordance with the provisions of Rule 11 of the Rules of Civil Procedure and G.S. 1-148.” G.S. 1A-1, Rule 11(b) states: “In any case in which verification of a pleading shall be required by these rules or by statute, it shall state in substance that the contents of the pleading…