Carter v. Brodrick

How courts have described this case

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• permitting a non-parent with status of a psychological parent or in loco parentis to petition for custody
• permitting a non-parent with status of a psychological parent or in loco parentis to petition for custody
• “those relationships that affect the child which are based upon psychological rather than biological parentage may be important enough to protect through custody”
• “[Alaska’s] statutes recognize that those relationships that affect the child which are based upon psychological rather than biological parentage may be important enough to protect through custody and visitation.”
• This adult becomes an essential focus of the child’s life, for he is not only the source of fulfillment of the child’s physical needs but also the source of his emotional and psychological needs ....
• in pari materia statutes may be construed together

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).