Matter of Oakes v. Oakes

Appeal from an order of the Family Court, Queens County (Fran L. Lubow, J.), dated July 8, 2014. The order, upon the granting of the respondent’s motion, made at the close of the petitioner’s case, to dismiss the petitions for failure to make out a prima facie case, dismissed the petitions.

Ordered that the order is reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, the petitions are reinstated, and the matter is remitted to the Family Court, Queens County, for further proceedings in accordance herewith.

In 2010, the petitioner commenced a family offense proceeding against his sister, the…