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V.C. v. M.J.B

748 A.2d 539 (2000)

163 N.J. 200

V.C., Plaintiff-Respondent and Cross-Appellant, v. M.J.B., Defendant-Appellant and Cross-Respondent.

Supreme Court of New Jersey.

Decided April 6, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alfred J. Luciani, for defendant-appellant and cross-respondent.

Robin T. Wernik, Matawan, for plaintiff-respondent and cross-appellant (Granata, Wernik & Zaccardi, attorneys).

Leslie Cooper, a member of the New York bar, New York City, for amici curiae American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey, American Civil Liberties Union Foundation, Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, National Center for Lesbian Rights and Lambda Families of New Jersey (Wilentz, Goldman & Spitzer, Eatontown, attorneys; Ms. Leslie, David M. Wildstein, David R. Rocah and Lenora M. Lapidus, on the brief).

Gregory J. Sullivan, Hamilton, submitted a brief on behalf of amicus curiae Concerned Women for America (Hartsough, Kenny & Chase, attorneys).

The opinion of the court was delivered by LONG, J.

In this case, we are called on to determine what legal standard applies to a third party's claim to joint custody and visitation of her former domestic partner's biological children, with whom she lived in a familial setting and in respect of whom she claims to have functioned as a psychological parent. Although the case arises in...

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