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Equitable paternity stands firm, N.Y. high court says.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-OCT-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
The New York Court of Appeals recently reinforced the doctrine of equitable paternity, ruling 5-2 that a man who acted as a father to a girl he assumed was his daughter was estopped from denying paternity even after DNA tests proved that he was not her biological parent. (Shondel J. v. Mark D., 2006WL 1835214 (N.Y. July 6, 2006).)

Mark D. met and had a relationship with Shondel J. in 1995 while visiting family in Guyana. After he returned to New York, Shondel told him that she was pregnant with his child, and he assumed certain responsibilities--providing some financial support during and after the pregnancy, visiting the child, making her a beneficiary of his life insurance...

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