Franklin v. Johnston’s Empirical Analysis

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2 state decisions

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1. “The requirement that an individual have performed caretaking functions primarily for nonfinancial reasons does not rule out caretakers who may qualify for financial assistance to care for the child but whose caretaking role was not motivated primarily by that assistance. Thus, for example, family members who take children into their homes primarily out of family affinity may be de facto parents even if, as a result of taking a child into their home, they are able to qualify for welfare benefits, foster-care payments, or other forms of financial assistance.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Custody of Afj

2. “Since her birth, three-year-old Simone has lived with and been cared for by her grandmother, Julia, while her mother, Fortune, drifted in and out of her life. Recently, at the suggestion of a social worker, Julia applied for a state foster-parent license. She is now receiving foster-care payments under a relative foster-care program. Julia may qualify as a de facto parent, even though she receives foster-care payments to help support Simone, because the caretaking arrangements arose for familial reasons and not primarily for financial ones.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Custody of Afj

3. “Wayne and Pattie are foster parents, who have cared for 10-year-old Ford for the past two years. They are not de facto parents, because their caretaking arrangement is a financial one.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re Custody of Afj