Parenting of M.M.G.
Annotate this CaseGail and Ron Armstrong began raising M.M.G. when the child was approximately one year old. M.M.G.'s mother, Arrah Lane, began leaving M.M.G. with the Armstrongs for weeks at a time until M.M.G. lived primarily with the Armstrongs. From the time M.M.G. was four years old for the next six years, Lane visited the child a few times a year. When M.M.G. was ten years old, Lane informed the Armstrongs she was moving to Wyoming with the child. Armstrongs filed a petition for a parenting plan. The district court dismissed the petition for lack of jurisdiction, concluding that the Armstrongs could not week a parenting plan unless Lane's parental rights had been terminated. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that if the Armstrongs could demonstrate they had established a child-parent relationship with M.M.G., the district court would have jurisdiction to consider whether to grant the Armstrongs a parental interest in M.M.G. Remanded for a determination of whether the Armstrongs had established a child-parent relationship with M.M.G.
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