Wong v. Beckford

Some nine years after the birth of her child in the British West Indies, the petitioner instituted this filiation proceeding, relying upon the furnishing of support by the appellant as an acknowledgment of paternity tolling the two-year *138Statute o£ Limitations (Family Ct. Act, § 517). The few small sums of money given to the petitioner by the appellant were not stated to be for the maintenance of the child. The circumstance that they might have been given for some other purpose and their sporadic nature, militate against their use as an admission of paternity. To serve as an acknowledgment of…