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  "id": 8521003,
  "name": "JAMES DOUGLAS FLETCHER, Plaintiff v. NORMA S. FLETCHER, Defendant",
  "name_abbreviation": "Fletcher v. Fletcher",
  "decision_date": "1991-10-01",
  "docket_number": "No. 9014DC1282",
  "first_page": "225",
  "last_page": "225",
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    "name_abbreviation": "N.C. Ct. App.",
    "id": 14983,
    "name": "North Carolina Court of Appeals"
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    "name_long": "North Carolina",
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    {
      "cite": "N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 50-6",
      "category": "laws:leg_statute",
      "reporter": "N.C. Gen. Stat.",
      "year": 1987,
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    "judges": [
      "Chief Judge HEDRICK and Judge PHILLIPS concur."
    ],
    "parties": [
      "JAMES DOUGLAS FLETCHER, Plaintiff v. NORMA S. FLETCHER, Defendant"
    ],
    "opinions": [
      {
        "text": "ARNOLD, Judge.\nDefendant assigns error to the trial court\u2019s exclusion of evidence relating to her health at the divorce hearing. The statutory requirements for divorce pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. \u00a7 50-6 (1987) are: (1) \u201cthe husband and wife have lived separate and apart for one year\u201d and (2) the plaintiff or defendant \u201chas resided in the State for a period of six months.\u201d Defendant does not contest the trial court\u2019s findings as to these requirements.\nDefendant sought to introduce evidence of her health and her prospects for obtaining medical insurance following divorce. Such evidence, however, is not relevant to the trial court\u2019s determination to grant or deny a divorce pursuant to G.S. \u00a7 50-6. N.C.R. Evid. 401. The trial court properly excluded this evidence.\nAffirmed.\nChief Judge HEDRICK and Judge PHILLIPS concur.",
        "type": "majority",
        "author": "ARNOLD, Judge."
      }
    ],
    "attorneys": [
      "William J. Thomas, II, for plaintiff-appellee.",
      "Lewis & Anderson, P.C., by Susan H. Lewis and Robert Allen Monath, for defendant-appellant."
    ],
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    "head_matter": "JAMES DOUGLAS FLETCHER, Plaintiff v. NORMA S. FLETCHER, Defendant\nNo. 9014DC1282\n(Filed 1 October 1991)\nDivorce and Separation \u00a7 70 (NCI4th) \u2014 separation for statutory period \u2014 wife\u2019s health irrelevant\nThe trial court properly excluded evidence relating to defendant wife\u2019s health and prospects for obtaining medical insurance in an action for divorce pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 50-6.\nAm Jur 2d, Divorce and Separation \u00a7\u00a7 147, 630.\nAPPEAL by defendant from judgment entered 15 October 1990 by Judge Kenneth C. Titus in DURHAM County District Court. Heard in the Court of Appeals 28 August 1991.\nPlaintiff and defendant married on 29 March 1974 and separated on 3 April 1987. The trial court entered a judgment of absolute divorce on 15 October 1990. From this judgment, defendant appeals.\nWilliam J. Thomas, II, for plaintiff-appellee.\nLewis & Anderson, P.C., by Susan H. Lewis and Robert Allen Monath, for defendant-appellant."
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  "file_name": "0225-01",
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