In re C.A.D., 247 N.C. App. 552 (2016)

Respondent mother appealed a permanency planning order that changed the permanent plan from reunification with the mother and maternal grandparents to adoption concurrent with custody with approved caretakers. The mother’s argument is that the court should have placed the children with their maternal grandparents, who were also respondents in the action. An order may be appealed by an “aggrieved party,” which is “one whose rights have been directly and injuriously affected by the action of the court.” The mother does not have standing to argue an injury to the maternal grandparents, who did not appeal the court’s permanency planning order.