Dividing marital property
Armagene Ellis-Smith, nka Armagene B. Ellis-Maclin v. Smith
In brief
- Where it stands
- Petition Pending
Awaiting an order on the petition
- What it’s about
- Ellis-Smith asks the Supreme Court to review claims that a North Carolina order denied her a share of a postal worker’s pension, left a corporation unvalued, and ordered her home sold and occupants evicted; she also says the county clerk failed to return her $15,000 cash bond.
- What's at stake
- The Supreme Court has not resolved Ellis-Smith’s claims about her property, home, or cash bond.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
The petition was distributed for conference, not granted for review.
Her petition says North Carolina’s appellate courts declined to review a district-court order.
Question presented
Where all of the North Carolina State Appellate Courts have denied review of a Court Order that was issued from a North Carolina District Court, which violates the United States Constitution of deprivation of property by depriving Petitioner of her share of marital assets in the form of a Postal Worker ’ s Pension, refusal to value and distribute corporation and ordering the Petitioner and all other occupants to be evicted from her own home and ordering her home sold, against her wishes, which deprives her of her property and the failure of the Durham County Clerk of Court willful failure to return Petitioners ’ $15,000 cash bond that was associated with the previous dismissed appeal.
What happens next
The petition was distributed for the Court’s Nov. 6, 2026, conference, where the justices may consider whether to hear it. The distribution does not guarantee an order date.
Documents
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More questions
- Why does Ellis-Smith say the clerk owes her $15,000?
- She says the cash bond was tied to an earlier appeal that was thrown out, but the Durham County clerk did not return it.
Sources
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