in the Interest of H.S., a Minor Child

Heather 1 lived in her maternal grandparents' home for the first 23 months of her life. During the last eight of those months, her grandparents were her primary caretakers and providers. The issue here is whether the grandparents, having continuously engaged in that parent-like role on a day-to-day basis, had standing to pursue a suit affecting the parent-child relationship (SAPCR) under the Texas statute conferring such standing on nonparents who have had "actual care, control, and possession of the child for at least six months." TEX. FAM. CODE § 102.003(a)(9). Both the trial court and the…