Family Court properly denied respondent's motion to reopen the fact-finding hearing to consider newly discovered medical records. Assuming, as respondent contends, that diligent efforts on his part to obtain all relevant materials were thwarted by petitioner's misrepresentations, the new evidence would not likely have produced a different result (CPLR 5015 [a] [2]). Nor is reversal warranted by Family Court's acceptance of the out-of-court statements of one child as corroborating...
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