Curiale v. Reagan

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• holding no statutory standing under Family Law Statutes for same-sex former partner to seek custody of or visitation with former partner's biological child; de facto parenthood doctrine has no basis independent of juvenile dependency concerns
• holding no statutory standing under Family Law Statutes for same-sex former partner to seek custody of or visitation with former partner’s biological child; de fac-to parenthood doctrine has no basis independent of juvenile dependency concerns
• holding no statutory standing under Family Law Statutes for same-sex former partner to seek custody of or visitation with former partner’s biological child; de fac-to parenthood doctrine has no basis independent of juvenile dependency concerns
• court had no “jurisdiction” where lesbian who was not biological parent had no standing to assert parental rights
• under statutory definition of parent, nonbiological parent in same-sex relationship had no standing to seek custody/visitation of partner's biological child conceived during relationship despite co-parenting agreement
• under statutory definition of parent, non-biological parent in same-sex relationship had no standing to seek custody/visitation of partner’s biological child conceived during relationship despite co-parenting agreement

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).