Citing Lower Court Error, Child Paternity Ruling Reversed

By Law.com on 01/10/2019

\”… A support magistrate in Manhattan’s Family Court acted outside the scope of her statutory authority by resolving “issues of contested paternity involving claims of equitable estoppel” and, as a result, the magistrate’s judgment that a man is the father of a child must be reversed, a state appeals court has ruled. ….\”

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