The family court properly applied statutory best-interest factors and identified sufficient exceptional circumstances to justify shared custody despite parental conflict.

The North Carolina Court of Appeals reversed an equitable distribution order after concluding that the trial court misclassified a premarital residence and inadequately valued a marital business.

Where the administrator of an estate moved to annul a marriage on the basis the decedent lacked the mental capacity to consent to marriage, her suit was dismissed. Because the marriage was merely voidable, the court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over the annulment suit after death.