Hughes v. Creighton

How courts have described this case

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• noting that parents can preclude visitation by nonparents who do not have statutorily granted rights to such visits
• acknowledging that definition of \parent\ as \one who begets offspring\ was common usage
• sixteen months of close paternal bonding did not permit court to order support, though putative father sought to establish his own duty to pay it
• “In the absence of a statute, a custodial parent holds veto power over visitation rights of anyone except the other parent.”
• husband challenged paternity testing on direct appeal in dissolution action

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).