Philip Surles v. Kristan Mayer and Marty Cullen, Jr.

How courts have described this case

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• noting that “the relocation of [a] custodial parent constitutes a material change of circumstances” for custody modification purposes (alteration in original
• concluding petitioner was the “functional equivalent” of a stepparent because he proved he and the child “developed a relationship similar to—if not closer than—that ordinarily established between a stepfather and his stepson”
• “[I]f a statute provides an illustrative list of persons or things to which its provisions should apply, an unenumerated person or thing must be ‘similar in nature’ to those expressly listed in order to fall within the scope of the statute.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).