Veronica P. v. Larry L.

Memorandum. The order appealed from should be modified, without costs, and the case remitted to Family Court, Westchester County, for further proceedings. Respondent perfected a timely appeal from the 1975 order modifying a previous filiation order entered in 1969. This order of modification created a new right to appeal, and brings before the court the entire order, including those issues that would have been raised on an appeal from the 1969 order alone. (See Cohen and Karger, Powers of the New York Court of Appeals, § 104, at pp 436-437.) We do not believe that the Family Court lost…