On March 1, 2010, Wake County, NC adopted new family court rules.  Originally, Wake County adopted domestic rules in 2002, and even though there have been periodic revisions, this edition is the biggest overhaul yet. There are lots of major and minor changes, but in this series I’m going to detail the four (4) biggest changes in my views:

The biggest change is to the financial documents that need to be automatically disclosed. Before, our rules included an exhaustive list of required documents that generally required hours of work for the client and for the lawyer to get the documents together. The rules have pared down the list to what most would consider the basics.

In addition, in cases were someone brought a property claim (equitable distribution) there was another exhaustive list. That disclosure rule is gone and replaced with a better form and a general statement of provide what you need to prove your case. Again, this limits the documents that need to automatically discloses, and it helps people who have less property to deal with in that they are not subject to such an exhaustive list of documents to gather.

There are many more changes, and tomorrow, I will talk about the next big change–temporary hearings and affidavits.

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