CALIFORNIA FAMILY LAW
...Custody and Visitation
......Nonparents-Custody Award
.........Nonparents
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Once parentage is determined in divorce decree, parties are estopped to relitigate issue in later proceeding.

Nonparent who lived with father and children could not seek custody of children by injecting herself into inactive UPA action in which the issue of custody was settled years before.