Commissioner of Social Services v. David X.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Saratoga County (Spellman, H.E.), entered September 18, 1990, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 5, for support upon an adjudication that respondent is the father of a child born to Jo W.

Jo W. and respondent met in March 1988, dated in early April 1988, began engaging in unprotected sexual intercourse in mid-April 1988 and, in late April 1988, respondent gave Jo an engagement ring. At the hearing held to determine paternity of the child to whom she gave birth on January 25, 1989, Jo testified…