E.N.O. v. L.M.M. (Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1999
A judge of the Probate Court properly exercised equity jurisdiction to order visitation, pending resolution of the proceedings, between a child and the child's de facto parent, one of two women coparents in a nontraditional family relationship, who was seeking to adopt the child and share legal custody pursuant to a coparenting agreement, and the judge properly applied the best interests of the child standard to the particular circumstances. [826-834] FRIED, J., dissenting, with whom LYNCH, J., joined.
A judge of the Probate Court properly exercised equity jurisdiction to order visitation, pending resolution of the proceedings, between a child and the child's de facto parent, one of two women coparents in a nontraditional family relationship, who was seeking to adopt the child and share legal custody pursuant to a coparenting agreement, and the judge properly applied the best interests of the child standard to the particular circumstances. [826-834] FRIED, J., dissenting, with whom LYNCH, J., joined.