Welcome to the Family Law Section

Section News & Notes Distinguished Service Award Click HERE to see a list of the Family Law Section Distinguished Service Award recipients. New CLE Publications North Carolina Family Law Marital Claims, Third Edition (2012) - click here to order. Leadership Opportunities Committee Sign-up Form, click here.

The Family Law Section provides information on legal and policy developments relating to children and families. Sponsors CLE programs on equitable distribution and an intensive seminar in family law in alternate years.

The section, with currently 1245 members, sponsors CLE programs and services; provides members with a substantive newsletter; and helps mold the association's legislative agenda for presentation to the N.C. General Assembly. The newsletter, Family Forum, offers an index of its articles and CLE topics.

The Family Law Section's website includes the following information:

Calendar - contains a listing of Section Council meeting dates, Section Annual meeting dates, and other Section-related events dates, locations, times, and event descriptions.

Continuing Legal Education (CLE) - contains section-specific Continuing Legal Education (CLE) information including upcoming programs and publications when available.

Governance - contains the Family Law section's governing documents including the purpose statement and bylaws.

Join/Renew - contains an online application form for joining this section.

Leadership - contains information from the section's leadership including the section officers, section council, committee chairs, and meeting minutes when available.

ListManager – is a communication tool that offers its members the opportunity to post suggestions, comments or questions to a large number of people at the same time.

Newsletters - contains the section's newsletters, which may be password-protected as determined by the section leadership.

Resources - contains section-specific legal resources including access to Casemaker / PJI, online links / references, publications (e.g., forms, brochures, booklets, etc.), articles, legislative issues, and other information when available.

NCBA - Information about the North Carolina Bar Association's leaders, staff contacts, map/driving tools, and links to other sections, divisions as well as NCBA's home page.