Department of Social Services ex rel. Deborah F. v. Peter P.

—In a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 5 to establish paternity, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Family Court, Orange County (Bivona, J.), entered February 27, 1991, which, after a hearing, dismissed the petition.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the facts, with costs, the petition is granted, the respondent is adjudicated the father of the subject child, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Orange County, for a determination of the child support payable by the respondent to the mother of the child.

The petitioner contends that the Family Court erred…