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North Carolina forms

North Carolina's structural advantage: the Administrative Office of the Courts publishes the official forms — public, free, and current. AOC official forms are the real instruments — the platform points to the official catalog entry (form number + edition) and routes completion judgment. No phantom templates; a form not individually encoded is a POINTER, stated as such.

The official catalog

https://www.nccourts.gov/documents/forms → (opens in a new tab)

Search by form number or title; the AOC edition on the form is the edition that controls.

summary ejectment

pointer

The magistrate ejectment paper set (complaint, summons, judgment, appeal)

small claims

pointer

Small-claims complaints and magistrate papers

dvpo 50b

pointer

The Chapter 50B protective-order set

civil general

pointer

Civil summons, subpoena, and general-division papers

Completing a form for your specific situation is where information ends and judgment begins — the AOC form is the instrument; what goes in it is yours, or a licensed North Carolina attorney's.

N.C. R. Civ. P. 10 (Form of Pleadings) + Rule 11 (Signing) — what the rules themselves require

“Every pleading shall contain a caption setting forth the division of the court in which the action is filed, the title of the action” — The caption carries the court DIVISION (District or Superior), the title of the action, and the Rule 7(a) designation.
“All averments of claim or defense shall be made in numbered paragraphs” — Numbered paragraphs, one set of circumstances per paragraph as far as practicable.
“shall be signed by at least one attorney of record in his individual name, whose address shall be stated” — An attorney of record signs in their individual name, with address stated.
“A party who is not represented by an attorney shall sign his pleading, motion, or other paper and state his address” — A self-represented party signs and states their address.
“pleadings need not be verified or accompanied by affidavit” — Verification is the exception, not the rule — only when a rule or statute specifically requires it.

The North Carolina Rules of Civil Procedure set no statewide font or paper-size rule in the corpus units this registry rests on. These editions use 12-point type, letter-size pages, and 1-inch margins as PRACTICE defaults — sound and common — not as rule commands; local rules and the e-filing standards where adopted may add real requirements.

The pleading anatomy, from the rules: Paragraph-by-paragraph responses are the spine. A GENERAL denial exists only where the pleader in good faith controverts ALL averments — and it rides Rule 11's certificate. Rule 8(c)'s own list includes contributory negligence, and THE $25,000 TRAP: in negligence actions and punitive-damages claims over $25,000, the pleading must NOT state the dollar demand.

The kit lane and G.S. 84-2.2 — the harbor's own conditions

North Carolina's website-provider statute sets CONDITIONS, and this platform honors them fail-closed. The statute's own words:

“does not include the operation of a website by a provider that offers consumers access to interactive software that generates a legal document based on the consumer's answers to questions presented by the software”
“An attorney licensed to practice law in the State of North Carolina has reviewed each blank template offered to North Carolina consumers”
“The name and address of each reviewing attorney must be kept on file by the provider and provided to the consumer upon written request”
“The provider must communicate to the consumer that the forms or templates are not a substitute for the advice or services of an attorney”
“shall register with the North Carolina State Bar prior to commencing operation in the State and shall renew its registration with the State Bar annually”

The North Carolina kit line is built and dark — deliberately. Downloads open only when the statute's conditions are actually satisfied: the State Bar registration is complete AND a North Carolina attorney has signed the per-kit review transmittal (the review G.S. 84-2.2(a)(2) itself requires). Until then: SHOW, EDUCATE, ROUTE — the AOC's official forms above are public and free, and a licensed North Carolina attorney can help with anything that calls for judgment.

These editions follow the statewide scheme — Rule 10's caption anatomy, Rule 11's signature requirements, and Rule 8's pleading rules, each quoted from the rules' own text. North Carolina's senior resident judges, districts, and counties publish REAL additional requirements in local rules and standing orders, and the e-filing rollout carries its own standards where adopted. Before any filing, verify the county page, the district's local rules, and the assigned judge's published procedures — our county and judge procedure pages, powered by BenchPath (benchpath.ai), are built for exactly that check.