Theo Lambros v. Mary Lambros, by and Through Michael T. Smith, as Conservator

How courts have described this case

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• holding that father’s failure to seek to modify temporary custody judgment is evidence of willful abandonment
• holding that when 3 IN RE J.T.C. Murphy, J., concurring in the result in part and dissenting in part “Respondent [did] not challenge[ certain] findings, . . . they are therefore binding on appeal”
• addressing adjudication of abandonment where respondent was subject to a no-contact order
• addressing adjudication of abandonment where respondent was subject to a no-contact order
• rejecting respondent’s argument that his inaction was justifiable on account of a temporary custody judgment, “conclud[ing] that respondent’s conduct me[t] the statutory standard for willful abandonment,” and “affirm[ing] the trial court’s adjudication pursuant to N.C.G.S. § 7B-1111(a
• “[A]n adjudication of any single ground in [Section] 7B-1111(a) is sufficient to support a termination of parental rights.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).