Moon v. Carl S.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Delaware County (Estes, J.), entered April 11, 1991, which dismissed petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 5, to adjudicate respondent as the father of a child born to Machell R.

Petitioner commenced this proceeding to determine the paternity of a child born out of wedlock to Machell R. At the conclusion of a fact-finding hearing at which testimony of the child’s mother, the maternal grandmother and respondent was received, Family Court dismissed the petition for failure to provide medical proof explaining the…