Mother's Veracity Irrelevant In Paternity Case -- Estoppel
The paternity by estoppel doctrine does not contain an exception for men who accept the role of fatherhood based on misrepresentations by the subject child's mother, the New York Court of Appeals says. Explaining that the mother's truthfulness is irrelevant and that the child's best interests control, it affirms filiation and support orders entered against a New York man who had been led to believe he fathered a child in Guyana after dating a woman there in 1995. See Shondel J. v. Mark D., N.Y., No. 46, 7/6/06.
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