Respondent failed to show that he "maintained substantial and continuous or repeated contact" with the child by way of payment toward the support of the child and either visiting the child at least monthly or communicating with him regularly, so as to demonstrate that his consent to the adoption of the child was required (Domestic Relations Law § 111 [1] [d]; see Matter of Maxamillian,
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