family. Father claims that it would be absurd to disallow a stepparent who no longer lives with the child’s parent from adopting, as the Superior Court held in J.D.S., but to permit a non-spouse grandparent who has not resided with Children in 10 years to adopt. As further support for his position, Father points to cases involving the standing of a grandparent to file for custody of their grandchildren, noting that, in D.G. v. D.B., 91 A.3d 706 (Pa.Super.2014), the Superior Court held that a grandmother who exercised custody of her grandchild every other weekend and one night per week, but who had not lived with her grandchild in over four years, was not in loco parentis to the child and, thus, lacked standing to seek custody. Compare Argenio v. Fenton, 703 A.2d 1042 (Pa.Super.1997) (<HOLDING>); with T.B. v. L.R.M., 567 Pa. 222, 786 A.2d
holding that a grandmother who frequently babysat her granddaughter was not in loco parentis and thus lacked standing to seek custody of her granddaughter holding that party standing in loco parentis has standing to seek custody of child holding evidence granddaughter told her grandmother she was being molested by her grandfather was sufficient to raise factual issue about grandmothers knowledge of husbands sexual activities holding that domestic partner who assumed a parental status over her partners child and performed parental duties with the partners permission stood in loco parentis to the child and had standing to seek partial custody and visitation holding that grandmother in loco parentis of her three grandchildren had protected liberty interest in their future care and custody