Legal Opinion
Darcie T. v. Robert M. L.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided November 13, 1998PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
—Order unanimously affirmed without costs. Memorandum: Family Court properly granted petitioner’s motion to vacate an order of filiation entered based upon respondent’s admission of paternity with respect to petitioner’s daughter. The parties were never married and are no longer seeing each other, and respondent has been excluded as the father of the child by HLA blood tests. The court properly refused to determine that petitioner is equitably estopped from challenging the prior order. Where an order of filiation is challenged, “it is the child’s best interests which are of paramount concern”…
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