Bowie v. Arder

How courts have described this case

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• holding that an established custodial environment does not establish a substantive basis on which to sue for custody under the CCA
• explaining that \circuit courts do not have jurisdiction in matters in which jurisdiction is given exclusively by constitutional provision or by statute to another court\
• holding between parents and nonparents, the mere de facto custody of the child by the nonparents was not enough to invoke standing for nonparents, unless nonparents were legal guardians
• explaining that errors in a court’s exercise of its jurisdiction cannot be collaterally attacked
• explaining that, in order to have standing, a party must have “some real interest in the cause of action, or a legal or equitable right, title, or interest in the subject matter of the controversy”
• discussing the historical equitable jurisdiction of the chancery courts over children

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).