The adjudicatory hearing shall be a judicial process designed to adjudicate the existence or nonexistence of any of the conditions alleged in a petition. In the adjudicatory hearing, the court shall protect the rights of the juvenile and the juvenile's parent to assure due process of law.
History
(1979, c. 815, s. 1; 1998-202, s. 6; 1999-456, s. 60.)
Legal Periodicals. - For note on juries in the juvenile justice system, see 48 N.C.L. Rev. 666 (1970).
For comment on due process in juvenile proceedings, see 3 N.C. Cent. L.J. 255 (1972).
For survey of 1972 case law on the right to counsel for the "undisciplined child," see 51 N.C.L. Rev. 1023 (1973).
For article on rights and interests of parent, child, family and state, see 4 Campbell L. Rev. 85 (1981).