Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York October 18, 2001 (Jerry Q. v. Malissa R.)

—Rose, J.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Greene County (Pulver, Jr., J.), entered September 9, 1999, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Court Act article 6, for custody of a child born to petitioner and respondent Malissa R.

In 1999, soon after learning that he was the biological father of a son born on July 3, 1997 to respondent Malissa R.