C.L. v. L.L.
Annotate this CaseChild was born to Mother while Mother was married to Father. Father was not Child’s biological father. Mother and Father subsequently divorced. Father later filed a motion for determination of de facto parent status in both a child protection case and a post-judgment motion in the divorce action. The district court consolidated the motions for hearing and determined that C.L. was not a de facto parent for purposes of the child protection proceeding, nor was he a de facto parent for purposes of the family matter. Father appealed the district court’s judgment on both motions. The Supreme Judicial Court (1) dismissed the appeal from the child protection order because the appeal was interlocutory; and (2) affirmed the judgment in the family matter, as Father failed to establish the first element of de facto parenthood.
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