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11 Jan 2020, 5:48 am by Joel R. Brandes
” In holding that Domestic Relations Law § 70 “permits a non-biological, non-adoptive parent to achieve standing to petition for custody and visitation” (Brooke S.B., 28 NY3d at 27), the Court of Appeals stressed that it “has gone to great lengths to escape the inequitable results dictated by a needlessly narrow interpretation of the term ‘parent’ ” (Brooke S.B. at 24). [read post]