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MATTER OF MELVIN L.

43 A.D.3d 924 (2007)

841 N.Y.S.2d 657

In the Matter of MELVIN L., Appellant.

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Second Department.

Decided September 11, 2007.

Ordered that the order of disposition is affirmed, without costs or disbursements.

The Family Court providently exercised its discretion in allowing the eight-year-old complainant to testify as a sworn witness at the fact-finding hearing, as he understood the difference between truth and falsity, the legal and moral consequences of lying, and the importance of telling the truth at the proceeding (see Matter of Marquis M., 1 A.D.3d 515

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