NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
1973 SESSION

CHAPTER 1199
HOUSE BILL 1974

AN ACT TO VALIDATE CERTAIN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS INVOLVING GUARDIANS.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:

Section 1.  G.S. 1A-1, Rule 17(b)(2), is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph at the end thereof:
"All orders or final judgments duly entered in any action or special proceeding prior to the effective date of this paragraph, when any of the defendants were infants or incompetent persons, whether residents or nonresidents of this State, and were defended therein by a general or testamentary guardian or guardian ad litem, and summons and complaint or petition in said action or special proceeding were duly served upon the guardian or guardian ad litem and answer duly filed by said guardian or guardian ad litem, shall be good and valid notwithstanding that said order or final judgment was entered less than 20 days after notice of the summons and complaint were served upon said guardian or guardian ad litem."
Sec. 2.  This act shall become effective upon ratification.
In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 8th day of April, 1974.