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PETITIONER’S PATERNITY CLAIM PROPERLY DISMISSED ON EQUITABLE ESTOPPEL GROUNDS, REINSTATEMENT OF PETITION UPON A PRIOR APPEAL DID NOT PRECLUDE DISMISSAL.

The Second Department determined petitioner was properly estopped from asserting his paternity claim. The Second Department noted that the fact that petitioner’s paternity petition was reinstated upon a prior appeal did not preclude the denial of the petition on equitable estoppel grounds:

The Family Court properly applied the doctrine of equitable estoppel to preclude the petitioner from asserting his paternity claim with respect to the subject child. The evidence at a hearing established that the respondent Gaston R. has established a strong father-daughter relationship with the child. The child has referred to Gaston R. as “daddy” since she was 18 months old and continues to view him as the only father figure in her life. In contrast, the petitioner learned, shortly after the child’s birth, that he was the child’s biological father. Nevertheless, he did not commence the instant paternity proceeding until the child was four years old. The petitioner has not had a parent-child relationship with the child for several years, and the child no longer recognizes the petitioner’s name. Under these circumstances, the court properly determined that it was in the child’s best interests to equitably estop the petitioner from asserting his paternity claim

Contrary to the petitioner’s contention, this Court’s determination on a prior appeal, which, inter alia, reinstated his paternity petition, did not preclude the Family Court from considering the doctrine of equitable estoppel upon remittal … . Matter of Thomas T. v Luba R., 2017 NY Slip Op 01870, 2nd Dept 3-15-17

 

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