Order unanimously reversed on the law without costs and petition dismissed.
Memorandum:
Family Court erred in determining that respondent was the father of a child born to petitioner, in awarding petitioner counsel fees and in awarding custody of the child to petitioner. One of the strongest and most persuasive presumptions in law is that a child born to a married woman is presumed to be fathered by her husband (see, Matter of Fay,
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