Legal Opinion
Czajak v. Vavonese
New York City Family Court
Decided May 29, 1980PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Edward J. McLaughlin, J.
Article 5 of the Family Court Act gives jurisdiction to the Family Court to determine paternity for purposes of support only. In a paternity proceeding a legal fiction is established so that someone other than the public will be responsible for paying to support a child born out of wedlock. The Family Court has no jurisdiction to determine status, with the exception that the Family Court has jurisdiction over adoption proceedings. (Family Ct Act, § 641.) Thus, where, as here, a putative father seeks to establish paternity of a child who is being…
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