Order reversed, on the law, without costs, and proceeding remanded to the Family Court for further proceedings in accordance with the views herein set forth.
No questions of fact have been considered. When a respondent in a proceeding such as this (appellant here) denies the allegations in a petition forwarded here from the initiating State, he is entitled to a hearing on the merits. The same rules of evidence apply as in other civil proceedings (Domestic Relations...
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