Legal Opinion
Travis v. Murray
New York Supreme Court
Decided November 29, 2013PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Matthew F. Cooper, J.
People who love their dogs almost always love them forever. *448But with divorce rates at record highs, the same cannot always be said for those who marry. All too often, onetime happy spouses end up as decidedly unhappy litigants in divorce proceedings. And when those litigants own a dog, matrimonial judges are called upon more and more to decide what happens to the pet that each of the parties still loves and each of them still wants. This case concerns one such dog, a 2V2-year-old miniature dachshund named Joey.
Joey finds himself in a tug-of-war between…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Eschbach v. EschbachNew York Court of Appeals · 1982
- MATTER OF TROPEA v. TropeaNew York Court of Appeals · 1996
- Rabideau v. City of RacineWisconsin Supreme Court · 2001
- Mullaly v. . People of the State of New YorkNew York Court of Appeals · 1881
- Pivar v. Graduate School of Figurative Art of the New York Academy of ArtAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2002
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Hennet v. AllanNew York Supreme Court · 2014
- Nonhuman Rights Project, Inc. ex rel. Hercules v. StanleyNew York Supreme Court · 2015