Legal Opinion
In Re Clark
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Decided August 17, 1981No. 136PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEYER, Justice.
At issue in this case is the constitutionality of Subsection (4) of G.S. 7A-289.32 which permits the termination of the parental rights of a parent when the child has been placed in the custody of a county department of social services and the parent, for a continuous period of six months next preceding the filing of the petition, has failed to pay a reasonable portion of the cost of care for the child. We find no constitutional defect in G.S. 7A-289.32(4). The conclusion of the trial judge that the statute is unconstitutional was therefore erroneous, and his dismissal of the…
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