Court Opinion

ID: 5963185
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-01-13 07:06:04.324092+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T08:48:11.837182
License: Public Domain

—In a custody proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, the petitioner appeals from an order of the Family Court, Queens County (Schindler, J.), dated May 21, 1991, which dismissed the proceeding without a hearing.
Ordered that the order is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.
In a related proceeding, the Family Court dismissed a proceeding to establish paternity after blood tests excluded the petitioner as the father of the child (see, Matter of Thomas F. v Victoria G., 194 AD2d 670 [decided herewith]). Having determined that the petitioner was not the father, the Family Court properly dismissed the instant proceeding for custody, since the petitioner, who was never married to the mother, is without standing to initiate such a proceeding (see, Matter of Rivers v Womack, 178 AD2d 532; cf., Matter of Anonymous v Olson, 112 AD2d 299, 230). Mangano, P. J., O’Brien, Ritter and Pizzuto, JJ., concur.