Foust v. Montez-Torres

| Appellant Jessica Foust appeals an order entered by the Jackson County Circuit Court denying her request for visitation with M.F., the minor child of appellee Maria Montez-Torres. For reversal, Foust argues that the circuit court erred in finding that she stood in loco parentis to M.F. for only the first three years of the child’s life rather than for the entirety of it and in finding that it was not in M.F.’s best interest to have visitation with her. We affirm because at the time Foust filed her complaint for custody and visitation, she lacked standing to bring the action.

In 1994, Jessica…