Pet Law and Custody (eBook)

Providing legal, scientific, social, and ethical information on how the law affects pets, this compelling and compassionate book is a useful resource for lawyers and for anyone interested in the welfare and legal rights of animals. Author Barbara J. Gislason takes an in-depth look at the complicated subject of pet custody disputes from many angles, and offers practical information on how ADR processes such as arbitration and mediation can be used in resolving these often-emotional conflicts. Topics cover all legal issues involved with pets, from family law issues to estate planning, and considers specialized topics such as property law, tort law affecting pet law, animal cruelty, science and bioethics, and much more. In addition, the book offers an array of practical advice for the animal lawyer, including law office basics, handling a legal case, and identifying experts.

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A valuable contribution to legal jurisprudence, this book examines in detail the progression of law that affects animal law in general, and the various aspects that particularly impacts pets and companion animals. Unique, inspiring, and interesting, author Barbara Gislason clarifies how scientific knowledge about the cognitive abilities and emotional characteristics of other animals should lead to legal developments.Pet Law and Custodyprovides synthesizes legal and ethical information on how the law affects pets with pertinent case law analysis. This is a very useful and well-crafted work for lawyers. The book takes an in-depth look at the subject of pet custody disputes from many angles. Not only explaining legal topics, such as what judges do in a practical way and how they might approach a case, the book also considers how cultural perspectives, cognitive biases, and points of view impact negotiations, alternative dispute resolutions, and decision-making processes. Topics include:Family law and replevin actionsAlternative dispute resolutionEstate planning for animalsContract law and the Uniform Commercial CodeProperty lawTort law affecting pet lawAnimal crueltyDangerous dogsScience and bioethicsPractical advice for the animal lawyer, including law office basics, handling a legal case, and identifying expertsAppendices include sample pleadings, agreements, rescue adoption contract, pet custody questionnaire, and more.This splendid book thoroughly and exhaustively for the first time explores all aspects of law pertaining to companion animals. Such a book has long been needed, and no one could have done it better than Barbara Gislason. This book is an instant classic, and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Prof. Bernard E. Rollin, Author ofAnimal Rights and Human Morality and Veterinary Medical EthicsEssential reading for lawyers and anybody who is interested in animal legal issues. Barbara Gislasons work is pioneering and will help you think deeply about the relationship between people and animals. Dr. Temple Grandin, Author ofAnimals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior