Stadter v. Siperko, COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA, 52 Va. App. 81; 661 S.E.2d 494; 2008 Va. App. LEXIS 270, June 3, 2008.

Former girlfriend’s petition for visitation with a biological mother’s child was properly denied because no appellate court in Virginia applied the de facto parent doctrine. There was no authority to support a principle of “partial relinquishment,” where a non-parent permitted to perform child-rearing functions could assert the rights of a parent.

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