Webb v. Charles

How courts have described this case

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• relinquishment of parental legal rights a prerequisite to divesting parent's right of physical custody for purposes of standing to commence custody proceeding
• since natural father did not relinquish his legal rights, the maternal grandmother lacked standing to seek custody
• “[W]hen jurisdiction is lacking in the trial court, it is lacking on appeal.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).