Legal Opinion
Fidel A. v. Sharon N.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided March 4, 2010PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Sidney Gribetz, J.), entered on or about June 14, 2007, which granted the motion of respondent Wayne N. and dismissed the petition of Fidel A. for a declaration of paternity of the subject child on equitable estoppel grounds, unanimously affirmed, without costs.
Despite the results of DNA tests establishing that petitioner is the subject child’s biological father, the Family Court properly found, on the basis of equitable estoppel, that it was not in the best interests of the child for petitioner to assert his paternity (see Matter of Shondel J. v Mark D., 7…
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