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        "text": "PER CURIAM.\nThe result reached by the Court of Appeals is affirmed. However, in light of our opinion in In re J.T. (I), 363 N.C. 1, 672 S.E.2d 17 (2009), the following language from the Court of Appeals\u2019 opinion is specifically disavowed: \u201c[S]ervice [of the summons] on the guardian ad litem constitutes service on the juvenile, which is sufficient to establish subject matter jurisdiction when combined with naming the juvenile in the caption of the summons.\u201d In re N.C.H., G.D.H., D.G.H., 192 N.C. App. 445, 446, 665 S.E.2d 812, 813 (2008) (citing In re J.A.P., I.M.P., 189 N.C. App. 683, 686-87, 659 S.E.2d 14, 17 (2008)). It is true in termination of parental rights cases that service of the summons on the juvenile is accomplished through the juvenile\u2019s guardian ad litem \u201cif one has been appointed.\u201d N.C.G.S. \u00a7 7B-1106(a) (2007). We reject the notion, though, that service of the summons on any particular party is necessary to invoke the trial court\u2019s subject matter jurisdiction. In re J.T. (I), 363 N.C. at 4, 672 S.E.2d at 19 (\u201c[T]he trial court\u2019s subject matter jurisdiction was properly invoked upon the issuance of a summons.\u201d (emphasis added)).\nAFFIRMED.",
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    "attorneys": [
      "Charles E. Frye, III, Staff Attorney, for petitioner-appellee Davidson County Department of Social Services, and Laura B. Beck, Attorney Advocate, for appellee Guardian ad Litem.",
      "Don Willey for respondent-appellant mother.",
      "Annick Lenoir-Peek, Assistant Appellate Defender, for Office of the Appellate Defender, amicus curiae."
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    "head_matter": "IN THE MATTER OF N.C.H., G.D.H., D.G.H.\nNo. 463A08\n(Filed 20 March 2009)\nAppeal pursuant to N.C.G.S. \u00a7 7A-30(2) from the decision of a divided panel of the Court of Appeals, 192 N.C. App.-, 665 S.E.2d 812 (2008), affirming orders terminating parental rights entered on 18 January 2008 by Judge Mary F. Covington in District Court, Davidson County. The case was calendared for argument in the Supreme Court on 23 February 2009, but was determined on the briefs without oral argument pursuant to N.C. R. App. P. 30(f)(1).\nCharles E. Frye, III, Staff Attorney, for petitioner-appellee Davidson County Department of Social Services, and Laura B. Beck, Attorney Advocate, for appellee Guardian ad Litem.\nDon Willey for respondent-appellant mother.\nAnnick Lenoir-Peek, Assistant Appellate Defender, for Office of the Appellate Defender, amicus curiae."
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