NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1975 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 702

HOUSE BILL 940

 

 

AN ACT TO AMEND CHAPTER 48 OF THE GENERAL STATUTES RELATING TO ADOPTIONS TO SUBSTITUTE THE WORDS "GUARDIAN AD LITEM" FOR "NEXT FRIEND" IN G.S. 489(a)(2), (3) and G.S. 48-9(d).

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

 

Section 1.  G.S. 48-9(a)(2), as the same appears in Volume 2A of the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by substituting the words "guardian ad litem" for the words "next friend" on line 5 thereof.

Sec. 2.  G.S. 48-9(a)(3), as the same appears in Volume 2A of the 1974 Cumulative Supplement to the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by substituting the words "guardian ad litem" for the words "next friend" on line 7 thereof.

Sec. 3.  G.S. 48-9(d), as the same appears in the 1966 Replacement Volume 2A of the General Statutes of North Carolina, is hereby amended by substituting the words "guardian ad litem" for the words "the next friend" on line 5 thereof, the words "guardian ad litem" for the words "next friend" on line 7 thereof and the words "a guardian ad litem" for the words "any next friend" on line 9 thereof.

Sec. 4.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 23rd day of June, 1975.