In Re Bishop

Many of respondents thirty-eight assignments of error and forty exceptions are not supported by arguments in respondents brief and, therefore, are taken as abandoned. Rule 28(b)(5), N.C. Rules App. Proc. The remaining assignments of error are grouped under five questions in respondents brief. Respondent first contends that she was denied effective assistance of counsel in violation of her constitutional and statutory rights. Respondents next two arguments are that the trial court erred in concluding that certain grounds for termination of parental rights existed under G.S. 7A-289.32(3). Respondent then argues that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of occurrences after the filing of the petition and that many of the trial courts findings of fact are not supported by sufficient evidence.