VERNON, EMERSON C., PEOPLE v

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• “Instead, step-parents previously have stood in the same shoes as other non-parental third parties.”
• “Instead, step-parents previously have stood in the same shoes as other non-parental third parties.”
• If a parent has made “a conscious parenting decision to foster a parent-caliber relationship between a third party and [the] child,” then the “parent’s consent to a prior and intentional parental relationship counterbalances (or supersedes

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