North Carolina Equitable Distribution
Three categories, one presumption, one unforgiving deadline
North Carolina classifies property three ways — and presumes an EQUAL division of marital and divisible net value unless the court finds equal inequitable. List what you have, assert a separate basis where one exists, flag what arose after separation — the organizer buckets each item under the statute and never predicts a departure.
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Add the house, the accounts, the vehicles, the retirement — each item gets bucketed under § 50-20's definitions with the presumption stated, not assumed away.
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Classification is a contested finding, and the date of separation is the hinge. The equal-division presumption is a starting point courts can depart from on the statutory factors — this organizer never computes a split and never predicts a departure. And the deadline stands over all of it: assert the ED claim before the divorce judgment or lose it (§ 50-11(e)). Legal information, not legal advice.