ELDREDGE v. TAYLOR

T1 The only issue presented for this Court's consideration is whether the trial court erred in granting the defendant's motion to dismiss for want of jurisdiction based on the plaintiff's lack of standing. Questions within the issue are (1) whether a person has standing to seek a best-interest-of-the-child hearing when the sole biological parent relinquished some of her parental rights to the person by entering into a written co-parenting agreement; (2) whether the doctrine of in loco parentis can extend to a person who is not legally related to a child when there is no allegation the sole…