North Carolina Absolute Divorce
The divorce is simple. The order of operations is everything.
Six questions route you honestly: safety first and unbypassable, the § 50-6 elements (one year separated, six months' residency — either spouse), and then the question North Carolina is least forgiving about — whether property and support claims are asserted BEFORE the judgment that would destroy them. The clean lane routes to Guide & File, the Judicial Branch's own free filing service.
1 · Is there violence or fear in your situation?
This question comes first, alone, on purpose — a yes routes to safety resources and the Chapter 50B lane before any workflow.
2 · Have you and your spouse lived separate and apart for one year?
§ 50-6's first element. Separation is factual — different homes plus at least one spouse intending it to be permanent; no agreement or court paper required.
3 · Has either of you lived in North Carolina for the last six months?
§ 50-6's second element — either spouse can satisfy it.
4 · Is there unresolved property division or spousal support between you?
The honest answer here is the whole game — this is the question North Carolina law is least forgiving about.
5 · Are there minor children needing custody or support orders?
Custody and child support are SEPARATE claims that survive the divorce — organized on their own track, never conflated with it.
Where the facts route
Answer the questions
The routing renders when every question is answered — including the stop that saves rights.
Authority locked — retrieved from the hash-pinned corpus
This platform prepares no North Carolina documents. North Carolina's self-help software law (§ 84-2.2) sets conditions this platform honors by not generating documents here until they are met — the official Guide & File service and the statewide forms catalog on nccourts.gov are the filing paths, and the official pages always control. Legal information, not legal advice; the claims-preservation deadline is exactly why attorney review before judgment is cheap insurance.