What is the test for establishing paternity and orders of filiation against the respondent?

The court finds the petitioner to be unworthy of belief and rejects her testimony purporting to establish non-access by her husband. She is obviously lacking in moral scruples and principle. Such a person cannot be expected to have much regard for the truth or the sanctity of an oath (Hyman v. Dworsky, 239 App.Div. 413, 418, 267 N.Y.S. 539). The evidence was far from convincing to warrant a finding of paternity and orders of filiation against the respondent in the

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