NORTH CAROLINA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

1967 SESSION

 

 

CHAPTER 939

SENATE BILL 549

 

 

AN ACT TO ELIMINATE THE REQUIREMENT OF NEXT FRIENDS AND GUARDIANS AD LITEM IN DOMESTIC RELATIONS CASES BY MINORS.

 

The General Assembly of North Carolina do enact:

 

Section 1.  Chapter 1 of the General Statutes is hereby amended by inserting the following Section:

"§ 1-65.1.  When Next Friend or Guardian Ad Litem Not Required in Domestic Relations. Notwithstanding the provisions of G.S. 1-64 and G.S. 1-65, an infant 18 years of age or over who is competent to marry is competent to prosecute or defend an action or proceeding for his or her absolute divorce, divorce from bed and board, alimony pendente lite, or permanent alimony with or without divorce, or an action or proceeding for the custody and support of his or her child, together with counsel fees when they are allowable. In such actions or proceedings the appointment of a guardian ad litem or a next friend is not required."

Sec. 2.  All laws and clauses of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 3.  This Act shall become effective upon its ratification.

In the General Assembly read three times and ratified, this the 27th day of June, 1967.