Order reversed, on the law, without costs, and proceedings remitted to the Family Court for a new hearing.
Appellant appeared at the trial without counsel. Under the circumstances, the trial court erred in putting questions to him without first advising him of his statutory right to refuse to testify (Family Ct. Act, § 531; Matter of Howard v. Robinson,
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