93 Misc. 2d 641 - Dodd v. Dodd’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 2018
18 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Most-quoted passages
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“"made child rearing a battleground; agreement has been totally absent.... When one parent resists joint custody and refuses to be persuaded that it is workable what will be the result for the children when it is ordered by the court? [Even] the most ardent professional proponents of joint custody assume cooperation between parents and agreement about child rearing practices as basic requirements for joint custody." Id. 403 N.Y.S.2d at 405 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Joint custody is an appealing concept. It permits the Court to escape an agonizing choice, to keep from wounding the self-esteem of either parent and to avoid the appearance of discrimination between the sexes. Joint custody allows parents to have an equal voice in making decisions, and it recognizes the advantages of shared responsibility for raising the young. But serious questions remain to be answered. How does joint custody affect children? What are the factors to be considered and weighed? While the Court should not yield to the frivolous objections of one party, it must give thought to whether joint custody is feasible when one party is opposed and court intervention is needed to effectuate it. In the end, as in [ejvery child custody decision, it is the welfare of the children which governs and each case will turn on its individual facts and circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“tends to make ex-parents of fathers, painfully deprived creatures of the children, and overburdened people out of the mothers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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