Howard v. Circuit Court of Will County

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• holding that, while mother’s former same-sex partner could not assert claim to custody or statutory claim to visitation, trial court may have equitable power to hear petition for visitation when it determines that petitioner has parent-like relationship with child
• Grams inapposite where statutes do not explicitly prohibit an outcome desired by a party
• same-sex partner can seek visitation when she has parent-like relationship with child and significant triggering event justifies State intervention in child’s relationship with biological or adoptive parent

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).