CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Custody and Visitation
......Nonparents-Custody Award
.........Stepparent
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Stepparent cannot request modification of a prior final order that denied her visitation under FC 3101(a).

Former Civil Code section 4351.5 permits court to award visitation rights to stepparent, but not custody.

Where parties stipulate, trial court has fundamental jurisdiction to make original custody award to stepparent and to continue award over natural parent's subsequent objection.