Wilson v. Kilkenny

In a proceeding pursuant to Civil Rights Law article 6 for leave to change an infant’s surname, the petitioner appeals, as limited by his brief, from so much of an order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Schack, J.), dated May 15, 2006, as denied the petition.

Ordered that the order is affirmed insofar as appealed from, with costs.

The Supreme Court correctly concluded that the petitioner, the father of a child born out of wedlock, failed to establish that his child’s interest will be substantially promoted by changing the child’s surname to his and that there is no reasonable objection to…