In Re Custody of HSHK

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• finding that former partner with no statutory right to visitation could be granted visitation because she had a parent-like relationship with a child
• adopting a four-part test of parenthood that includes whether the petitioner has assumed the financial obligations of parenthood, including “contributing towards the child’s support”
• explaining a circuit court may only determine whether visitation is in a child’s best interests if the petitioner first proves all required elements of a parent-like relationship
• permitting a person in a \parent-like\ relationship with the child to petition for visitation
• allowing former female partner of biological mother to invoke equitable power of the court to obtain visitation if the biological parent has interfered substantially with the other person's established parent-like relationship with the child
• allowing former female partner of biological mother to invoke equitable power of the court to obtain visitation if the biological parent has interfered substantially with the other person’s established parent-like relationship with the child

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).