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PHILBROOK v. THERIAULT

Docket: Cum-07-744.

957 A.2d 74 (2008)

2008 ME 152

Mary E. PHILBROOK et al. v. Lynn THERIAULT et al.

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine.

Decided: October 7, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

S. James Levis, Jr., Esq., Levis & Ingraham, P.A., Saco, ME, for David and Mary Philbrook.

Jacquelyn Hadam, Student Attorney, Deirdre M. Smith, Faculty Supervisor, Cumberland Legal Aid Clinic, University of Maine School of Law, Portland, ME, for Lynn Theriault.

Panel: SAUFLEY, C.J., and CLIFFORD, ALEXANDER, LEVY, SILVER, MEAD, and GORMAN, JJ.

SAUFLEY, C.J.

[¶ 1] Mary E. and David R. Philbrook appeal from a judgment entered in the District Court (Bridgton, Beaudoin J.) dismissing their complaint for parental rights and responsibilities regarding their grandsons on the ground that they lack standing to proceed. The Philbrooks contend that they functioned as the boys' de facto parents for substantial periods of time and that the District Court erred when it dismissed their complaint. We affirm...

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