Maynard v. Cody

—In a filiation proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 5, Michael E. Cody appeals from so much of an order of the Family Court, Suffolk County (McElligott, J.), entered December 15, 1999, as denied his motion to (1) vacate (a) an order of the same court entered January 8, 1999, which, upon his default in appearing at a hearing, adjudicated him to be the father of the petitioner’s child, and (b) an order of same court, entered January 5, 1999, which directed him to pay child support, and (2) join his brother as a party to the proceeding.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as…