Legal Opinion
Youmans v. Ramos
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Decided June 22, 1999PublishedCited by 45 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMarshall, J.
We consider in this case whether, attendant to a judgment awarding a father custody of his then eleven year old daughter, a judge in the Probate and Family Court may order visitation between the child and a guardian with whom she had lived for many years, and who had long filled the role of the only parent for the child.
In 1997, Donald R. Youmans (father), a resident of Georgia, sought legal and physical custody of his daughter, Tamika E. *775Youmans. Tamika, who was bom in 1986, had lived with Cynthia M. Ramos, her maternal aunt, in Massachusetts for most of her life. The aunt, previously…
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