North Carolina Court-Ordered Classes

North Carolina’s court system — comprising Superior Courts, District Courts, and specialty courts across all 100 counties organized into 46 prosecutorial districts — issues court-ordered education requirements in thousands of custody, criminal, and domestic violence cases annually. From Mecklenburg County District Court in Charlotte and Wake County District Court in Raleigh to Guilford County Superior Court in Greensboro, from the District Courts of Durham and Cumberland Counties to the rural courts of Tyrrell and Camden Counties in the Albemarle region, NC courts impose educational conditions in parenting plan proceedings, criminal probation orders, and domestic violence protective order cases. Court Courses Co provides fully online, self-paced programs meeting North Carolina court requirements — available statewide from any device.

North Carolina courts mandate educational programming under established statutory frameworks. In custody and family proceedings, N.C.G.S. § 50-13.2 directs North Carolina courts to award custody based on the best interests of the child, with courts considering each parent’s ability to support the child’s relationship with the other parent — a factor that drives co-parenting education requirements in Mecklenburg, Wake, and Guilford County District Courts. North Carolina courts routinely order parent education as part of Parenting Coordination under N.C.G.S. § 50-91 et seq. For criminal probation, N.C.G.S. § 15A-1343 grants North Carolina courts authority to impose special conditions of probation, including anger management, domestic violence intervention, and substance use education. North Carolina’s Domestic Violence statutes under N.C.G.S. § 50B-3 authorize District Courts to impose educational conditions on defendants in domestic violence protective order (DVPO) proceedings across all 100 North Carolina counties.