No. 18-1354

C. P., et al. v. C. A.

Lower Court: California
Docketed: 2019-04-29
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Tags: child-custody custody custody-rights due-process extramarital-affair family-code family-law family-rights fourteenth-amendment fundamental-parental-rights parental-rights third-parent-law third-party-custody
Key Terms:
DueProcess Privacy
Latest Conference: 2019-10-01
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Does California's Family Code section 7612(c), granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a 'third parent,' regardless of a finding of unfitness of the child's two legal parents, impermissibly interfere with the parents' fundamental rights in the care, custody and companionship of their child under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution?

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED FOR REVIEW oO Does California’s Family Code section 7612(c}, granting third parties legal and physical custody rights to a minor child as a “third parent,” regardless of a finding of unfitness of the child's two legal parents, impermissibly ~ interfere with the parents’ fundamental rights in the : . "care, custody and companionship” of their child under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution? , Were Petitioners, o married couple raising three : children in an intact and fit home, deprived of their constitutional right fo care, custody and control of their youngest child when the court applied California's “third parent law” to require them to share legal and physical , custody of her with a man with whom Mother had had an extramarital affair¢ i

Docket Entries

2019-10-07
Petition DENIED.
2019-09-25
Supplemental brief of petitioners C. P., et al. filed. (Distributed)
2019-06-12
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 10/1/2019.
2019-04-22
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due May 29, 2019)

Attorneys

C. P., et al.
Stephanie J. FinelliLaw Office of Stephanie J. Finelli, Petitioner
Stephanie J. FinelliLaw Office of Stephanie J. Finelli, Petitioner