neglected, or dependent, it is required to design a plan to meet the needs of the child, N.C.G.S. § 7A-646, which may include altering custodial or visitation rights. N.C.G.S. § 7A-647(2). UCCJA The UCCJA is a jurisdictional statute relating to child custody disputes. See N.C.G.S. § 50A-3. It seeks to prevent parents from forum shopping their child custody disputes and assure that these disputes are litigated in the state “with which the child and the child’s family have the closest connection.” N.C.G.S. § 50A-l(a)(3). The UCCJA expressly includes within its jurisdictional parameters proceedings in abuse, dependency, and/or neglect. See N.C.G.S. § 50A-2(3) (defining “custody proceeding” to include “neglect and dependency proceedings”); see L.G. v. People, 890 P.2d 647, 657-58 (Colo.) (<HOLDING>), cert. denied, L.G. v. El Paso County Dep’t.
holding that actions for neglect and dependency governed by uccja holding that the actions were not actions of public and general applicability but were actions directed principally and primarily at plaintiffs holding that findings of fact in a dependency and neglect action for severe child abuse are presumed to be correct unless the evidence preponderates against them holding that warranty actions for personal injury damages or tortious injury to personal property are governed by general nonucc limitations periods holding that social services attorneys were entitled to absolute immunity for actions related to the prosecution of child neglect and delinquency proceedings