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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The Utah Supreme Court ruled in an unusual custody dispute. The bottom line: A two-year-old boy can't stay with a couple who have raised him for much of his young life.
The court said a Third District judge applied the wrong law when he allowed Toni and Matt Worthington to have custody. The Worthingtons also were told they could keep the boy away from his biological parents.
The case now returns to Third District Court, where a judge must decide custody between biological mother Rachel Sullivan and the father, Arturo Nuosci.
Sullivan was paid by the father to be a surrogate mother.
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