Cavanaugh v. DeBaudiniere

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• holding that although husband and wife were both fit and proper persons to have custody of the child, custody in a dissolution action should have been awarded to wife, the biological parent, in light of blood test showing that husband was not the child’s biological father
• finding in loco paren-tis relationship for visitation purposes “where the stepparent and a young child have lived in a home environment and developed deep and lasting mutual bonds of affection”
• case remanded for determination of ex-husband’s desire to continue in loco paren- tis relationship with ex-stepchild

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).