ABA Family Law Quarterly Update

The Spring 2006 issue of the Family Law Quarterly, a publication of the Section of Family Law of the American Bar Association, deals with the issue of third party rights and obligations concerning children.  This issue has come up recently in Virginia.  In the published opinion of Surles v. Mayer, the Virginia Court of Appeals ruled that a man who lived with and had a daughter with a woman could petition the court for visitation with the woman’s son from a previous marriage.