In Re Marriage of Pleasant

How courts have described this case

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• holding that lesbian mother’s visitation could not be restricted solely on ground that she was in a lesbian relationship; sexual orientation of parent is relevant only if it directly harms the child
• holding that lesbian mother's visitation could not be restricted solely on ground that she was in a lesbian relationship; sexual orientation of parent is relevant only if it directly harms the child
• finding that the standard is “an extraordinary” one and “is more stringent than the best interests standard”
• “[t]here is a strong public -11- policy to preserve the relationship between a parent and child”
• parent's open involvement in lesbian relationship not grounds to restrict visitation in the absence of evidence of inappropriate behavior in child's presence

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).