MATTER OF WILSON v. KILKENNY


44 A.D.3d 676 (2007)

841 N.Y.S.2d 898

In the Matter of SEAN WILSON, Appellant, v. CAROLINE KILKENNY et al., Respondents.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided October 2, 2007.


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 the proposed name change (see Matter of David Robert T., 10 A.D.3d 453 [2004]; Matter...

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