§50‑11.2. Judgment provisions pertaining to care, custody, tuition andmaintenance of minor children.
Where the court has therequisite jurisdiction and upon proper pleadings and proper and due notice toall interested parties the judgment in a divorce action may contain suchprovisions respecting care, custody, tuition and maintenance of the minorchildren of the marriage as the court may adjudge; and from time to time suchprovisions may be modified upon due notice and hearing and a showing of a substantialchange in condition; and if there be no minor children, the judgment may sostate. The jurisdictional requirements of G.S. 50A‑201, 50A‑203, or50A‑204 shall apply in regard to a custody decree. (1973,c. 927, s. 1; 1979, c. 110, s. 11; 1999‑223, s. 10.)