# North Carolina — Small Claims Court Dollar Limits by State

For North Carolina, dollar limit is ten thousand dollars ($10,000); court name is District Court; statute citation is N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-210(1), recorded from its source on 2026-08-31.

- **state:** North Carolina _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_
- **dollar limit:** ten thousand dollars ($10,000) _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **court name:** District Court _(verified: appears in the quote below)_
- **statute citation:** N.C. Gen. Stat. § 7A-210(1) _(our reading, not quoted from the source)_

## What the source says

> Small Claim Actions in District Court. § 7A-210. Small claim action defined. For purposes of this Article a small claim action is a civil action wherein: (1) The amount in controversy, computed in accordance with G.S. 7A-243, does not exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000); and

## Source

- https://www.ncleg.gov/EnactedLegislation/Statutes/HTML/BySection/Chapter_7A/GS_7A-210.html

Last verified: 2026-08-31. Review by: 2027-08-31.
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