29 N.C. App. 596 - Hemby v. Hemby’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “Assuming, arguendo, that no summons was issued or no complaint or answer filed, we think defendant is still bound by the consent judgment. While jurisdiction may not be conferred upon a court by waiver or consent of the parties, where the court has jurisdiction of the subject of the action and the parties are before the court, objections as to the manner in which the court obtained jurisdiction of the person or to mere informalities in the procedure or judgment may be waived, and a party may be estopped to attack the judgment on such grounds by failure to object in apt time and by acquiescence in the judgment after rendition.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 194 N.C. App. 386 - In Re KJL