Wakeman v. Dixon

How courts have described this case

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• holding that written agreement between same-sex couple providing parental rights to non-birth mother was unenforceable even though the non-birth mother had provided support and had been a de facto parent for years
• finding no statutory support for granting visitation or custody to persons claiming de facto parenthood
• finding no statutory support for granting visitation or custody to persons claiming de facto parenthood
• rejecting former domestic partner’s claim of parental rights as a “de facto” or “psychological” parent as there is “no right to claim court-ordered visitation as a ‘psychological parent,’ and the court lacks the inherent authority to award it”
• “[C]hapter 61, Florida Statutes, does not allow non-parents to seek custody or visitation.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).