In Re Custody of McCuan

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• concluding that, to establish standing, non-parent must show that biological parent relinquished “legal custody,” not just physical possession of the child
• finding that Peterson stands for the proposition that the nonparent must show that the parent has relinquished legal custody of the child to establish standing
• providing that allocations of GAL fees and a psychologist’s fees were reviewed for an abuse of discretion
• \[A] mother does not relinquish custody for purposes of the statute merely because she leaves a child with her in-laws for the weekend.\
• where child was simply visiting grandparents with the natural mother's consent, there was no relinquishment of physical custody
• child’s visiting grandparents with mother’s consent insufficient to divest mother of physical custody of child

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