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MATTER OF COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVS. v. RAFAEL V

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137 A.D.3d 516 (2016)

27 N.Y.S.3d 130

2016 NY Slip Op 01744

In the Matter of COMMISSIONER OF SOCIAL SERVICES on Behalf of MARIA G., Petitioner, v. RAFAEL V., Respondent. CHELSEY G., Nonparty Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, First Department.

Decided March 10, 2016.

The Family Court exercised its discretion in a provident manner in finding that it was in the child's best interests to dismiss the paternity petition on equitable estoppel grounds. The record shows that, although the then 16-year-old child was told by her mother that respondent was her biological father when she was approximately five years old, she considered the mother's husband to be her father and had maintained a parent-child...

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