Matter of Augustine A. v. Samantha R.S.

Order, Family Court, Bronx County (Jodi E. Hirschman, S.M.), entered on or about April 10, 2014, which granted the petition pursuant to article 5 of the Family Court Act for an order of filiation declaring and adjudging petitioner to be the father of the subject child, unanimously reversed, on the law, without costs, the order of filiation vacated and the matter remanded to the Family Court for further proceedings consistent herewith.

The support magistrate prematurely ordered the parties to take a genetic marker test to determine whether petitioner was the father of the subject child.…