MURPHY, Chief Judge.
The question in this case is whether, as part of a divorce proceeding, the court is authorized to award visitation rights to a nonadoptive stepmother of a minor child.
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Cheryl and Donald Evans were married in June of 1975. For six months prior to the marriage, Donald's child by an earlier marriage, then eighteen-month-old Jason, was in Cheryl's care. The parties separated in January of 1980. For seven months thereafter, Jason...
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