Bryan v. Bryan

OPINION

BIRDSALL, Judge.

The question presented in this appeal is whether a stepparent who stands in loco parentis to a stepchild may be granted visitation rights when the marriage of the stepparent and the child’s natural parent is dissolved.

The appellant, who was then the mother of an infant child by another man, married the appellee in 1979. The marriage was dissolved by a decree of dissolution originally entered on January 21,1981, and amended on April 17, 1981. In findings made-a part of that decree, the court specifically found that the appellee stood in loco paren tis 1 to the child,…