North Carolina Learn
File property and support claims BEFORE the divorce judgment
North Carolina's most unforgiving rule: an absolute-divorce judgment destroys the right to equitable distribution unless that right was asserted first, and alimony survives only in a pending action. The divorce itself is simple — the order of operations is everything.
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This is the single most common irreversible self-represented loss in NC divorce practice — if property or support is unresolved, attorney review before judgment is cheap insurance.
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