Taiwana Y. v. Benjamin Z.

Appeal (transferred to this Court by order of the Appellate Division, Second Department) from an order of the Family Court of Westchester County (Spitz, J.), entered September 26, 1991, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 5, to adjudicate respondent the father of a child born to petitioner.

This proceeding was commenced by petitioner to adjudicate respondent the father of her child. At the filiation hearing, petitioner testified that on October 25, 1988 she engaged in sexual relations with respondent, thereafter becoming pregnant and…