In re the Estate of Sekanic

—Graffeo, J.

Cross appeals from an order of the Surrogate’s Court of Albany County (Marinelli, S.), entered February 5, 1999, which, inter *803alia, denied petitioner’s application for approval of her final accounting of decedent’s estate.

Decedent died intestate in 1993 and both petitioner and respondent separately claim to be his biological children. Although both parties are the daughters of decedent’s long-term companion, they refute each other’s respective claims of paternity. Upon decedent’s death, petitioner applied for and was granted letters of administration of the estate and thereafter…