Merrill v. Ralston
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Fein, J.
Petitioner commenced a paternity proceeding in Family Court in 1979. The petition was dismissed after trial in July, 1980 for failure to prove paternity by clear and convincing evidence. We affirmed unanimously without *178opinion in November, 1982 (90 AD2d 997). While the appeal was pending, section 532 of the Family Court Act was amended, effective March 2,1981, to admit the results of the human leucocyte antigen blood tissue tests (HLA) as positive evidence in the determination of paternity at the request of either party (L 1981, ch 9, §§ 2, 3).
In July, 1981,…
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