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By: Rudman Winchell Attorney Anthony A. Trask Maine courts, like so many others around the country, have awarded people with no legal connection to a child not only visitation rights, but full parental rights and responsibilities. These rare decisions were not based on any law, but rather, on a legal concept that has come to…
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