Jason Young v. Toni M. King
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
1Opinion of the CourtMead, J.
[¶1] Jason Young appeals from a judgment of the District Court (Portland, Cashman, J. ) dismissing, for lack of standing, his complaint seeking to be determined a de facto parent of Toni M. King's adopted child. See 19-A M.R.S. § 1891(2) (2018). Young argues that the court abused its discretion in declining to hold a hearing to determine disputed facts and in concluding that King's refusal to allow Young to adopt the child was dispositive of the issue of whether King understood, acknowledged, or accepted that, or behaved as though, Young was a parent to the child. See 19-A M.R.S. § 1891(3)(C)…
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